• IdentificationMSSmit00
  • TitleNesta Smith collection MSSmit00
  • PublisherSpecial Collections
  • LanguageEnglish
  • RepositorySpecial Collections
  • Physical Description0.25 Linear feet
  • Date1932-1963
  • AbstractViolinist Nesta Smith (1900-1998) taught at the Hull-House Music School and acted as its director from 1943-1967. This collection contains material from the Hull-House Music School and includes printed programs, flyers, brochures, newspaper articles, and photographs of the annual Christmas tableaux, performances, and interior scenes.
  • OriginationSmith, Nesta

Old Resource ID was NSmith

Violinist Nesta Smith (1900-1998) taught at the Hull-House Music School and acted as its director from 1943-1967. The Hull-House Music School was founded in 1893 in the world-famous Hull-House settlement house. The school offered a wide array of educational and performance opportunities to poverty-stricken immigrants and their children on the Near West Side of Chicago. Music School activities included private lessons, chamber music classes, choruses, a concert band, and a symphony orchestra. The School earned a local and national reputation for its high standards and quality of instruction. The Music School continued to operate in a new location on the North Side of Chicago after the Hull-House settlement decentralized and moved from its original location.

This collection contains material from the Hull-House Music School and includes printed programs, flyers, brochures, newspaper articles, and photographs of the annual Christmas tableaux, performances, and interior scenes.

Nesta Smith collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Names
    • Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.). Music School.
    • Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.).
    • Smith, Nesta -- Archives
  • Subject
    • Concert programs.
    • Midwest Women's History.
  • Geographic CoverageIllinois--Chicago.