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Essentials in
History
Museum archives chronicle Society history
New additions to Museum
Updated: 10/1/2002 11:10:00 AM
by Ruth Blazina-Joyce, Archivist & Curator
Every year, boxes and packages and envelopes arrive at the Heritage Hall Museum of Barbershop Harmony in Kenosha, each containing a piece of history. Photographs, artifacts, documents, recordings, memorabilia—the building blocks of our barbershopping heritage.
Where does all of it come from? Members and non-members alike contribute to the collections, helping us preserve our past. Through their gifts, the Museum’s holdings have grown and diversified over the years.
So what is all this stuff, neatly stored and labeled in files and drawers and shelves? Papers of SPEBSQSA founder O. C. Cash, past presidents and historians trace the origin and development of the Society. The memories, thoughts, and experience of quartet champions, arrangers, and presidents are captured on oral history tapes. Programs, score sheets and souvenirs enliven the convention files. Costumes of champion quartets give a different meaning to the phrase “barbershop style.”
The museum’s general archives is a storehouse for information on a variety of topics; everything from early male close-harmony quartets to the development of the contest and judging program to barbershop in the movies.
During 1994, the Museum received many interesting new donations for the collections, including:
- Chord Busters memorabilia from the estate of Doc Enmeier
- A stoneware “quartet of judges” mug from Frank Santarelli
- Material on the development of the new judging system from Rob Hopkins
- Mid States Four items from Marty Mendro
- A tape of the Suntones appearance on The Honeymooners from Gene Cokeroft
- Photographs and memorabilia from the estate of Glenn Howard
- Pioneer District convention material from Dale Bekker
- A collection of Westunes from Bob Bisio
- Recordings and material on early male close-harmony quartets from Lisa Zahlmann
- A set of Sage Lake newsletters from Paul Shannon
- International convention programs from Bob Gall
- Pittsburghers memorabilia from Tom Palamone
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