The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989

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1920-1942

Leonard Bernstein as a child
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Bernstein at approximately three years of age. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
Group portrait of Bernstein and his parents.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  Bernstein ca. 1921 with parents, Samuel and Jennie. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
Young Leonard Bernstein
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon Bernstein ca. 1922. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
Leonard Bernstein as a young boy conducting a group of children.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon The first known photograph of Bernstein as a conductor. As a camp counselor he is conducting the Camp Onota Rhythm Band, 1937. Made available online with permission. (Music Division)
Family portrait of the Bernsteins.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon Bernstein with parents, Samuel and Jennie, and sister, Shirley, ca. 1935. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
Portrait of Bernstein.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon Bernstein around time of Harvard graduation, 1939. Inscribed to Helen Coates, Bernstein's piano teacher and later secretary. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
Bernstein at the piano.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon Bernstein, 1936. Photographer unidentified. (Music Division)
Bernstein in graduation cap.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon Bernstein at Harvard graduation, 1939. Photographer: William Filene's Sons Company, Boston, Massachusetts. (Music Division)

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