Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

Scope and Contents note From the Series: At the height of MoMing Dance & Arts Center’s success, it functioned as the place in Chicago to view post-modern dance and performances. Thus, a variety of artists and dancers performed at MoMing either as soloists, as part of residency, or even as part of a series or showcase, such as “Dance for a Dollar.” Items found in the performance files range from but are not limited to: box office reports, clippings, contracts, correspondence, fliers, notes, press releases, photographs, programs,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: At the height of MoMing Dance & Arts Center’s success, it functioned as the place in Chicago to view post-modern dance and performances. Thus, a variety of artists and dancers performed at MoMing either as soloists, as part of residency, or even as part of a series or showcase, such as “Dance for a Dollar.” Items found in the performance files range from but are not limited to: box office reports, clippings, contracts, correspondence, fliers, notes, press releases, photographs, programs,...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: At the height of MoMing Dance & Arts Center’s success, it functioned as the place in Chicago to view post-modern dance and performances. Thus, a variety of artists and dancers performed at MoMing either as soloists, as part of residency, or even as part of a series or showcase, such as “Dance for a Dollar.” Items found in the performance files range from but are not limited to: box office reports, clippings, contracts, correspondence, fliers, notes, press releases, photographs, programs,...

Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Programs issued for the annual Normal School and Convention of the CNADM, held every summer in a Chicago venue. Early Directories include list of board of directors, members, attendees, committees, dance notation taught, photographs of board, faculty, and occasionally group pictures of the previous year’s convention attendees. Then the Directories (and Prospectuses, later called Programs, containing faculty biographies and advertisements) were divided from the dance notation books. Names...

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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Includes clippings, newsletters, press releases, and programs related to Dorothy Hild and her productions, as well as souvenir programs from her work as a producer for Barnes – Carruthers and those she collected over the years. Additionally, the series contains YMCA/YWCA schedules for class offerings.

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Materials of various types on the topics of dance companies, Russian Dance, AIDS, Art, and the Ballets Russes reunion in New Orleans, 2000.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: The Helen S. Winters Papers contain correspondence, school papers, artwork, and other personal items. Letters to her mother Georgia B. Steele while Helen was in college are especially evocative of college life for a young woman in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Later letters deal with financial issues and hardships of rural family life faced by Helen Winters as she struggles with a somewhat transitory existence, raising six children with her husband Robert Winters, Jr. often away working....

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This series contains a variety of calendars and greeting cards dating back to the late 19th century, including advertising calendars, Christmas, Easter, and Halloween cards, invitations, place cards, postcard books and Valentine cards which document virtually one hundred years of printed history. The series also includes souvenir post cards from Chicago and the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition.

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Photographs used to accompany front page and other feature stories in the Chicago Reader. Original file names have been retained, and though most photos are organized by subject, in some cases the title of the story is used. There is considerable overlap with photos in the Columns series.

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Publicity and live photographs of Midwest area dance, drama, and comedy performers and performances. Series includes some slides and electronic format photographs. Name of theater company, when known, is indicated after the production name.

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Publicity and live photographs of Midwest area dance, drama, and comedy performers and performances. Series includes some slides and electronic format photographs. Name of theater company, when known, is indicated after the production name.

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Publicity and live photographs of Midwest area dance, drama, and comedy performers and performances. Series includes some slides and electronic format photographs. Name of theater company, when known, is indicated after the production name.

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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: Souvenir books are books, usually oversized, sold at dance performances. They usually include more photographs and biographical information about the dancers and the company than the free performance programs. This series includes very early souvenir books of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Anna Pavlova, as well as substantial runs of American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, The Hamburg Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, New York City Ballet, Original Ballet Russe, and Royal Ballet...

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.