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Sherwood Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Anderson
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Dates: 1872-1992

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract

Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.

Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988

Zwiefka family dance papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Zwiefka
Abstract

Materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance instruction in Chicago primarily through the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Public School District. The women specialized in ballet, folk, Hawaiian, Polish, and Spanish dance.

Dates: 1890-1987; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1960

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  • Subject: Manuscripts, American X

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Subject
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 23
Photographs 18
Scrapbooks 15
Correspondence 10
Sound recordings 8
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Moving images 6
Programs 5
Authors, American -- 20th century 4
Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Manuscripts, American 4
Scores (documents for music) 4
Sheet music 4
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 3
Contracts 3
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Pamphlets 3
Sketches 3
Artifacts 2
Ballet 2
Ballet dancers 2
Cartoonists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Editorial cartoons 2
Indians of North America -- Education -- Law and legislation 2
Newspapers 2
Periodicals 2
Political cartoons 2
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- Caricatures and cartoons 2
Reports 2
Taxes 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Palestine 2
Address books 1
Advertisements 1
Advertising -- Circus 1
Advertising -- Transportation -- United States -- History 1
Amusement parks -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Amusement rides 1
Art -- Exhibitions 1
Art -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions 1
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Articles 1
Artists -- Portraits -- Exhibitions 1
Arts -- Management -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Authors as artists 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography 1
Avondale (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Bahamas -- Description and travel 1
Ballet companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ballet companies -- Photographs 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ballet dancers -- Photographs 1
Bohemianism -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
Brochures 1
Caricatures and cartoons -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions 1
Choreography 1
Circus 1
Circus -- United States 1
Circus animals 1
Circus in art 1
Circus performers 1
Circus trains 1
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Clubs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Cocopa Indians 1
Cocopah Indian Reservation (Ariz.) 1
Conductors (Music) -- Photographs 1
Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Costume design 1
Cultural property -- Poland 1
Dance -- Study and teaching 1
Dance -- United States 1
Dance companies 1
Dance schools -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance teachers 1
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Dance teachers -- United States 1
Diaries 1
Dramatists, American 1
Drawing -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Folk dancing, Mexican 1
Folk dancing, Polish 1
Folk dancing, Spanish 1
Folk dancing, Yoruba 1
Forensic orations -- Sources 1
Glass negatives 1
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.) 1
Hotels 1
Hualapai Indian Reservation (Ariz.) 1
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Language
French 2
German 2
Spanish; Castilian 2
Italian 1
Polish 1
 
Names
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 4
Chicago Sun-Times 3
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 3
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 3
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 3
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Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 3
Simon and Schuster, Inc. 3
University of Chicago 3
Anderson, Margaret C. 2
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 2
Caylor, Rose 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 2
Cook Christian Training School 2
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 2
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 2
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 2
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 2
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949 2
National Congress of American Indians 2
Newberry Library 2
Ruth Page Foundation 2
Ryerson, Edward L. (Edward Larned), 1886-1971 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Tallchief, Maria 2
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 2
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Africana Dancers 1
Al G. Barnes Circus 1
Aldis, Arthur T. 1
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 1
Allied Arts Corp. (Chicago, Ill.) 1
American Ballet Caravan (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Ballet Theatre 1
American Indian Treaty Council. Information Center 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Artichoker, John, 1930- 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Association of American Indian Physicians 1
Atkinson, Charles Thomas, 1864-1943 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Babb, Sanora 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Balanchine, George 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Ballets russes du Col. W. de Basil 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Basso, Keith H., 1940-2013 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Bell, Edward Price, 1869-1943 1
Bender, Charles Albert, 1884-1954 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Bennett, Robert L. (Robert LaFollette), 1912-2002 1
Bergstrom, Robert W., 1918-2006 1
Bertram Mills Circus 1
Best, Marshall, -1982 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Blaine, Anita McCormick 1
Blue Spruce, George 1
Bobbs-Merrill Company 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Boni & Liveright 1
Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 1
Borgman, Jim 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Brice, W. Kirkpatrick 1
Brickman, Morrie, 1917-1994 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 1
Butcher, Fanny, 1888-1987 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 1
California Insurance Company 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Cavan, Jack 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chalif, Louis H. (Louis Harvey), 1876-1948 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
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