BURLINGTON NORTHERN CLOWN CLUB AND BAND:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Burlington Northern Clown Club and Band, creator. | |
| Title: | Burlington Northern Clown Club and Band records. | |
| Dates: | 1958-1985. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, directories of members, performance materials and recordings of performances of the Burlington Northern Clown Club and Band. | |
| Quantity: | 1.0 cubic feet (1 box), 1 master video file: MOV (15.2 GB), 1 user video file: MP4 (668 MB), 5 master audio files: WAV (1.3 GB), and 5 user audio files: MP3 (275 MB). | |
| Location: | 129.E.1.2F: See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Burlington Northern Clown Club and Band began as a community service under the former Great Northern Railway Company, probably as early as the 1950s. The band performed along the rail line at community festivals, charity events, and at children's hospitals, senior citizen residences, and schools for the underprivileged. It was especially active during the St. Paul Winter Carnival. George Donnay and Robert W. Achterling coordinated the activities of the band.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Burlington Northern Clown Club and Band. Burlington Northern Clown Club and Band records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,460; 16,774
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of the audiovisual material are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original videocassette and audio reels were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into mov and wav files.
Processing Information:
Digitized by: Minnesota Historical Society, October-November 2024.
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, January 12, 2022.
Digital audiovisual transferred from the master videocassette and audio by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, (January, 2022).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Catalog ID number: 990073802750104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 129.E.1.2F | Correspondence and miscellany: Great Northern file, 1958-1970. | ||||||||||
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| Correspondence and miscellany: Burlington Northern file, 1970-1985. 5 folders. | |||||||||||
1971-1974
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1975-1977
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1978-1979
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1980-1981
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1982-1985
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| Directory of members, 1979, 1981, 1983. | |||||||||||
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| List of members (1956-1980) and photographs (1950s), undated. | |||||||||||
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| Member notices, 1966-1979. | |||||||||||
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| Procedures, 1970s. | |||||||||||
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| Publicity, 1970s. | |||||||||||
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| Skit material, undated. | |||||||||||
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1959-1970
1971-1975
1976-1980
| Winter Carnival Committee, 1964-1973. | |||||||||||
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| Burlington Northern Clown films, 1971-1977. 1 master video file (1 hour, 7 minutes): MOV (15.2 GB) and 1 user video file: MP4 (668 MB). | |||||||||||
| Footage of the clown club and band preparing, performing, and traveling to their next show. | |||||||||||
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| Clown club band music, 1973, 1977, 1979. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 29 minutes): WAV (452 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (80 MB). | |||||||||||
| Circus carnival music calliope. 1. King cotton, 2. American patrol, 3. Manhattan beach, 4. The devils dream, 5. Turkey in the straw, 6. Washington post march, 7. The thunderer, 8. High school cadets, 9. The billboard, 10. Bombasto, 11. Yankee Doodle & Johnny comes marching home. 12. Hail to the spirit of liberty. | |||||||||||
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| Clown show, Minneapolis Aquatennial, 1977. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 2 minutes): WAV (318 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (54.8 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Clown show, 1979. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 2 minutes): WAV (317 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (64.1 MB). | |||||||||||
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| Clown club meeting, undated. 1 master audio file (40 minutes, 40 seconds): WAV (205 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (34.8 MB). | |||||||||||
| Opens with a medley of music, after about 14 minutes the club and band discuss ideas for their live show. Music can be heard in the background intermittently during their discussion. | |||||||||||
| Container note: BN-GN Clown, Spike Jones, 3 Stooges, Xmas songs. | |||||||||||
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| Spike Jones and clown show, undated. 1 master audio file (50 minutes, 57 seconds): WAV (257 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (41.5 MB). | |||||||||||
| Begins with music from Spike Jones, then at 12:28 minutes switches to a live performance. | |||||||||||
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CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Clowns.
- Persons:
- Achterling, Bob (Robert W.), author.
- Organizations:
- Burlington Northern Inc., author.
- Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), author.
- Document Types:
- Audio recordings.
- Photographs.
- Video recordings (physical artifacts).
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