Leonard Bernstein Collection

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1920s - 1942

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Bernstein at approximately three years of age. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
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Bernstein ca. 1921 with parents, Samuel and Jennie. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
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Bernstein ca. 1922. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)

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The first known photograph of Bernstein as a conductor. As a camp counselor he is conducting the Camp Onota Rhythm Band, 1937. © Made available on-line with permission from The Berkshire Eagle. (Music Division)
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Bernstein with parents, Samuel and Jennie, and sister, Shirley, ca. 1935. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
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Bernstein around time of Harvard graduation, 1939. Inscribed to Helen Coates, Bernstein's piano teacher and later secretary. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)

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Bernstein, 1936. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
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Bernstein at Harvard graduation, 1939. Photographer: William Filene's Sons Company, Boston, Massachusetts.(Music Division)
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Bernstein conducts Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat at an informal Tanglewood tea party. Serge Koussevitzky - conductor and Bernstein mentor - and his wife Natalie look down from the balcony. The inscription to Helen Coates refers humorously to L'histoire d'un éléve - the tale of the student. 1940. © Made available on-line with permission from The Berkshire Eagle.(Music Division)

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Leonard Bernstein Collection