Career

Object Details

Scope and Contents note: This series contains material related to Ms. McLean's extensive singing career. The series includes programs from her multiple recitals, phonographic recordings of her singing, and a teaching certificate. There are also two scrapbooks created and maintained by Ms. McLean, which document her time with the traveling Porgy and Bess production company as well as programs and articles referring to her debut recital while in college.

Collection Rights: The Joy McLean papers are the physical property of the Anacostia Community Museum. Literary and copyright belong to the author/creator or their legal heirs and assigns. Rights to work produced during the normal course of Museum business resides with the Anacostia Community Museum. For further information, and to obtain permission to publish or reproduce, contact the Museum Archives.

Collection Citation: The Joy McLean Bosfield papers, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Joy McLean Bosfield.