Una Austin Weeks collection

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Una Austin Weeks collection

Date(s)

  • 1855-1919 (Creation)

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0.50 linear feet (1 document case)

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Biographical history

Una Austin was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer in London in the early 1900s. During World War I she gave concerts to entertain the British soldiers in India, where she met her husband, Lewis Weeks in 1921. She was the mother of the late L. Austin Weeks, who was a benefactor of the Frost School of Music’s Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center.

Una Austin was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer in London in the 1910s.  During World War I she gave concerts to entertain the British soldiers in India, where she met her husband, Lewis Weeks in 1921.  She was the mother of the late L. Austin Weeks, who was a benefactor of the Frost School of Music’s Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center.

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Una Austin Week, whose maiden name was Una Austin, was a professional concert mezzo-soprano singer performed in London, England in the 1910s.  The collection contains professional portrait photographs, concert programs, and press clippings of her performance appeared in newspapers and telegraphs.

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This collection is open for research.

Physical access

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact the University Archivist, Nick Iwanicki, at ngi5@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

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Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to ngi5@miami.edu.

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  • English

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The collection was transered to the University Archives on June 16, 2016 by Nancy Zavac, Music Librarian, Marta and Austin Weeks Library.

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Other Information:

For more information on Una Austin Weeks, go to Una Austin Weeks' page at the Music Library's website: https://sp.library.miami.edu/subjects/musiccollections#box-21851860

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This collection was processed by Marcia Heath, Archives Technician, 08-22; finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 12-13-22.

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