BYU Library - Special Collections

This collection includes materials collected by Dale Barco throughout his years of repairing and making harps. Dates span from approximately 1966 to 2005. It contains various sheet music, manuscripts, and photocopies of music for piano, guitar, vocals, and harp. Also includes newsclippings, personal documents and correspondence, American Harp Society conference programs, audio and video recordings, harp strings, and framed art and photographs.

Collection includes (spans the dates 1952-1996) hand-written manuscripts created by Merrill Bradshaw, original scores and parts, published and bound scores such as “Title of Liberty” and “The Restoration”; papers centered around his teaching years such as grade transcripts and class rolls; audio/video recordings that include reel-to-reel tapes, cassette tapes, CDs, video cassettes, and LPs, and correspondence.