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Virna Harman Walker Johnston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-JohnstonV
Abstract

Correspondence, programs, report cards, and clippings relating to Chicago dancer and dance instructor Virna Harman Walker Johnston.

Dates: 1903-1959; Majority of material found within 1918-1930

Ruth Page papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Page
Abstract

Personal papers of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. Materials include correspondence, choreographic and technical notes, address books, programs, press clippings and scrapbooks, journals writings, photographs, business records, audio recordings, and musical scores. Featured dance works include The Bells, Carmen, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday.

Dates: 1892-1997

John Petri papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Petri
Abstract

Choreographic notes, clippings, photographs, programs, and other materials documenting the career of ballet and Hungarian dancer John Petri (1892-1963).

Dates: 1916-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1963

Alan Howard papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Howard
Abstract

Clippings, photographs, programs, assorted miscellaneous printed material and memorabilia relating to ballet dancers and dance companies.

Dates: 1924-2002; Majority of material found within 1980-2002

Edith Allard papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Allard
Abstract

Letters, postcards, telegrams, contracts and schedules, clippings, photographs and programs of dance performances in Israel and Sweden, two art prints and a small collection of medals.

Dates: 1955-1991

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

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Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems.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

Ellen Goldsmith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

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Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
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Cook, Mollie Price 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Egorova, Lubov Nikolaevna, 1880-1972 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gilmore, Blanche 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949 1
Harman, Lillian 1
Harman, Moses, 1830-1910 1
Hightower, Rosella 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man 1
Johnston, Arthur Oliver, 1890-1972 1
Johnston, Chester 1
Johnston, Robert Harman, 1920-2011 1
Johnston, Virna Harman Walker 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Kriza, John 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Lindlahr Sanitarium 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
O'Brien, George Harman, 1905- 1
O'Brien, George Robert 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Petri, John, 1892-1963 1
Price, Leontyne 1
Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950 1
Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis), 1879-1942 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Rossner, Karl 1
Rossner, Ollie S. 1
Royal Ballet 1
Ruth Page Foundation 1
Ruth Page's International Ballet Company 1
San Carlo Opera Company 1
Sayers, Lionel 1
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet 1
Tebaldi, Renata 1
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 1
Tobey, Mark 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Uppman, Theodor, 1920-2005 1
Vickers, Jon 1
Virna Harman Walker Studio of Dancing (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960 1
White, Lillie 1
Wise, Belva Harman 1
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 1
Zanasi, Mario 1
Zoritch, George, 1917-2009 1
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