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Meadow Brook Music Festival - History and early years

Item

Title

Meadow Brook Music Festival - History and early years

Description

Caption: Thursday, June 11, 1964. OU Chancellor Varner (center) describes construction progress at the Festival site with UAW executive Ken Morris (left), and UAW President Walter Reuther. In a pledge of UAW support, 50 labor officials and their wives dined in the OU Gold Room, as Mr. Reuther's guests, and viewed the Meadow Brook grounds for the first time. By opening night, the UAW met the quota of its campaign to solicit season tickets for the Festival's symphonic season.

Stamps, Marks, Inscriptions, and Condition Notes

On back: P. 78 ; May 1964 ; Examining progress on Meadowbrook's Baldwin Pavilion. Visit by UAW local and nat'l officers. Ctr: Woody Varner, Rt.: Walter Reuther, Left: Ken Morris ; Stamp: Howard A. Coffin

Creator

Oakland University See all items with this value

Contributor

Coffin, Howard See all items with this value

Date

1964-05

Temporal Coverage

1960s See all items with this value

Subject

Meadow Brook Music Festival See all items with this value

Baldwin Memorial Pavilion See all items with this value

Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970 See all items with this value

Varner, Durward B., 1917-1999 See all items with this value

Medium

black-and-white prints (photographs) See all items with this value

Extent

10.00X8.00

Format

JPEG image

Type

Image See all items with this value

Rights Holder

Oakland University

Rights

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Identifier

OUP_060_02_001a

Source

Oakland University Historical Photograph Collection

Item sets

Oakland University Historical Photographs