Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: This is a growing collection of printed ephemera issued from approximately the late 18th century onward (bulk 20th century), mostly concerned with printing, publishing, graphic design, and related book arts. The collection includes advertising materials, artists’ books, book jackets, booklets, bookmarks, brochures, business cards, business reply cards, catalogs, envelopes, flyers, greetings cards, journal issues, keepsakes, letterheads, order forms, posters, prospectuses, proofs,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The dance and sheet music series includes materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance and physical education instruction as well as specialty sheet music. The series contains two subseries: “Dances” and “Sheet Music.” The “Dances” subseries contains dance notations and accompanying sheet music. The dance notations may appear on a separate sheet(s) and/or handwritten on the sheet music itself. The folder titles for the dances read as...

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Mostly promotional photo prints of dancers, but also includes some cabinet cards / cartes de visite, cigarette cards, oversize prints, negatives, slides, and transparencies.

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Over 400 boxes of clippings, programs, brochures, fliers, images, and press releases about dancers, dance companies, dance styles, festivals, and various topics. Occasionally there are also administrative files for companies or organizations in which Barzel participated (such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Chicago City Ballet). Many subjects overlap, and the researcher is encouraged to check under many different subject headings for similar materials.

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Over 400 boxes of clippings, programs, brochures, fliers, images, and press releases about dancers, dance companies, dance styles, festivals, and various topics. Occasionally there are also administrative files for companies or organizations in which Barzel participated (such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Chicago City Ballet). Many subjects overlap, and the researcher is encouraged to check under many different subject headings for similar materials.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: Letters, notes, cards, postcards, and telegrams of both a professional and personal nature, to and from Ann Barzel. Significant correspondence relating to dance matters come from Lincoln Kirstein, Janet Roughton (Frederic Franklin's secretary), Mary Clarke, Helen Dzhermolinska, Gerald Arpino, and Virginia Donaldson. Many correspondents sent Barzel picture postcards with dance-related themes, knowing that she collected dance images of all sorts; see the folders of Virginia Lee and Elisa...

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Mostly promotional photo prints of dancers, but also includes some cabinet cards / cartes de visite, cigarette cards, oversize prints, negatives, slides, and transparencies.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The dance and sheet music series includes materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance and physical education instruction as well as specialty sheet music. The series contains two subseries: “Dances” and “Sheet Music.” The “Dances” subseries contains dance notations and accompanying sheet music. The dance notations may appear on a separate sheet(s) and/or handwritten on the sheet music itself. The folder titles for the dances read as...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The dance and sheet music series includes materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance and physical education instruction as well as specialty sheet music. The series contains two subseries: “Dances” and “Sheet Music.” The “Dances” subseries contains dance notations and accompanying sheet music. The dance notations may appear on a separate sheet(s) and/or handwritten on the sheet music itself. The folder titles for the dances read as...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The dance and sheet music series includes materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance and physical education instruction as well as specialty sheet music. The series contains two subseries: “Dances” and “Sheet Music.” The “Dances” subseries contains dance notations and accompanying sheet music. The dance notations may appear on a separate sheet(s) and/or handwritten on the sheet music itself. The folder titles for the dances read as...

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Over 400 boxes of clippings, programs, brochures, fliers, images, and press releases about dancers, dance companies, dance styles, festivals, and various topics. Occasionally there are also administrative files for companies or organizations in which Barzel participated (such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Chicago City Ballet). Many subjects overlap, and the researcher is encouraged to check under many different subject headings for similar materials.

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Over 400 boxes of clippings, programs, brochures, fliers, images, and press releases about dancers, dance companies, dance styles, festivals, and various topics. Occasionally there are also administrative files for companies or organizations in which Barzel participated (such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Chicago City Ballet). Many subjects overlap, and the researcher is encouraged to check under many different subject headings for similar materials.

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Over 400 boxes of clippings, programs, brochures, fliers, images, and press releases about dancers, dance companies, dance styles, festivals, and various topics. Occasionally there are also administrative files for companies or organizations in which Barzel participated (such as the National Endowment for the Arts and Chicago City Ballet). Many subjects overlap, and the researcher is encouraged to check under many different subject headings for similar materials.

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Photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and transfers from performances at the MoMing Dance and Art Center, publicity campaigns, rehearsals, gallery shows, school classes, and events. For more photographs, see also the Performance Files Series and the Publicity Series - Press Kits.

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Photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and transfers from performances at the MoMing Dance and Art Center, publicity campaigns, rehearsals, gallery shows, school classes, and events. For more photographs, see also the Performance Files Series and the Publicity Series - Press Kits.

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Photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and transfers from performances at the MoMing Dance and Art Center, publicity campaigns, rehearsals, gallery shows, school classes, and events. For more photographs, see also the Performance Files Series and the Publicity Series - Press Kits.

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Photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and transfers from performances at the MoMing Dance and Art Center, publicity campaigns, rehearsals, gallery shows, school classes, and events. For more photographs, see also the Performance Files Series and the Publicity Series - Press Kits.

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Photographs, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and transfers from performances at the MoMing Dance and Art Center, publicity campaigns, rehearsals, gallery shows, school classes, and events. For more photographs, see also the Performance Files Series and the Publicity Series - Press Kits.

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Programs from Chicago performances by Ted Shawn and his Male Dancers, Col. W. De Basil's Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo, Jooss European Ballet, and Graff Ballet.

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Programs from Chicago performances by Ted Shawn and his Male Dancers, Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, Jose Limon and Dance Company with Pauline Koner, the Royal Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and Russian Festival of Music and Dance at the Opera House Chicago.

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Programs from Chicago performances by Royal Danish Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev with the San Francisco Ballet.

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Programs from Chicago performances by Bolshoi Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, and The Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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Correspondence with clients, original art work, and printed specimens.

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Original compositions, correspondence, and ephemera related to the pianist and composer Heniot Lévy.