Page, Ruth, 1899-1991
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1899 - 1991
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Edna L. McRae papers
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-McRae
Abstract
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adolph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Papers include correspondence, biographical information, brochures, clippings, programs, numerous photographs, personal and dance notation notebooks, card files, address books, and eight albums...
Dates:
1910-1990
Mark Turbyfill Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Turbyfill
Abstract
Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems. Also, articles and reviews by and about Turbyfill, a few pieces of correspondence, clippings, dance programs, photographs, a cassette tape of him reading, and a published genealogy of the Turbyfill family.
Dates:
1911-1985
Ruth Levy dance photographs
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-LevyR
Abstract
Ruth Levy, who performed as a dancer with the Pavley/Oukrainsky Junior Ballet, received a master’s degree in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. This collection includes her slides, negatives, proof sheets, and prints of dancers in several companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet among others. Some of these photographs...
Dates:
1928-1976; Majority of material found within 1970-1973
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- Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
- Dancers -- Portraits 2
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 2
- Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
- American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Artists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century 1
- Autobiographies (literary works) -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Ballet dancers 1
- Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century 1
- Black-and-white slides 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
- Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Color slides 1
- Contact sheets 1
- Correspondence 1
- Dance -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Dance -- Study and teaching 1
- Dance companies -- United States 1
- Dance photography 1
- Dance schools -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Negatives (photographs) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Poetry -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
- Poets, American -- 20th century 1
- Portraits 1
- Programs 1
- Publicizing 1
- Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
- Women photographers 1 + ∧ less
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