Johnson, Reber Nettleton

Scope and Contents The Reber Nettleton Johnson papers document his early life as a child violin prodigy, his performances with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra, and his thirty-year teaching career in the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. The bulk of the collection consists of scrapbooks containing letters (from Johnson to various family members, as well as correspondence addressed to Johnson), photocopied news clippings pertaining to his performances, tickets to a limited...