Special Collections
At Special Collections located in Axe Library at Pittsburg State University, we have a large collection of sheet music.
Axe Library Digital
- Carson J. Robison Collection
- Eva Jessye Collection
Axe Library Digital Commons
- Centennial Choir (1975-1998) and “The Messiah” (1915-1984) Concert, Programs
- Department of Music, Pittsburg State University Collection, 1919 - This collection has a number of printed concert and recital programs.
- Glen Clugston (1930 –), Collection Glen Clugston was a student in the Music Department and is another collection that has a finding aid in Digital Commons.
- Eurydice Club Records, 1903 - 1929 - Women's Music Club at PSU.
- Orpheus Club Collection - Men's Music Club on campus during the 1920s that would later evolve into Phi Mu Alpha.
- Southeast Kansas Symphony Concert, Collection, 1981-2006 - Concert programs.
- Osczr Stover (circa 1912-1988) 1942-1947 - Oscar Stover was a long-time professor in the Music Department.
Music Special Collections cataloged within the general library catalog
- William Browning Collection
- Barbara Rondelli Collection
- Treble Clef Club Collection
- Other Music Special Collections
The Walter McCray Collection
Walter McCray (1877-1959) is a former PSU Music Department Chair and the person for whom the building is named. His papers from 1899-1983 are in the Axe Library Digital Commons.
L-R: Walter McCray, John Philip Sousa, and PSU President William Brandenburg.
Dr. Walter McCray was the second director of the Department of Music at Pittsburg State University, known then as the State Manual Training Normal School, and served in that capacity from September 1914 to August 1946. He died on December 5, 1959.