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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

Chicago City Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-CCB
Abstract

Administrative, promotional, and audiovisual records of the Chicago City Ballet, founded by prima ballerina Maria Tallchief in 1980. The successor of the Lyric Opera Ballet, this resident ballet company toured and performed in Chicago and throughout the United States until dissolving in 1987. Also includes photographs and musical scores.

Dates: 1924-2001; Majority of material found within 1980-1987

Dorothy Hild papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates: 1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929-1980

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

Allied Arts records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allied Arts
Abstract Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Allied Arts Corporation management was taken over by Harry and Sarah Zelzer in 1948 and became the premier agency for bringing performing artists to Chicago. Important artists and groups include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Glenn Gould, and singers Tito Schipa and Judy Garland. Collection also includes original photographs taken in venues...
Dates: 1913-1997

Ravinia Festival Association records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ravinia
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, reports, and publicity relating to the Ravinia Festival, a summer music festival held at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois, since 1904 (non-continuous).

Dates: 1903-1993

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Photographs 5
Correspondence 4
Scrapbooks 4
Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Africana Dancers 1
Allied Arts Corp. (Chicago, Ill.) 1
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American Ballet Caravan (New York, N.Y.) 1
American Ballet Theatre 1
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Balanchine, George 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Ballets russes du Col. W. de Basil 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Cavan, Jack 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago City Ballet 1
Chicago City Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Dorsey, Jimmy, 1904-1957 1
Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009 1
Gallinot, Ruth, Dr. 1
Garland, Judy 1
Gould, Glenn 1
Hild, Dorothy 1
Horowitz, Vladimir, 1903-1989 1
Jooss Ballet 1
Kostal, Irwin 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Lambert, Ainsley 1
Levine, James 1
Littlefield Ballet 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Martin, Freddy, 1906-1983 1
McCormick Place (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Mejia, Paul 1
Newhouse, Kathie 1
Olshansky, Eugene 1
Orchestra Hall (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Orchestral Association (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Ravinia Company 1
Ravinia Festival Association 1
Ravinia Park (Highland Park, Ill.) 1
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 1
Ruth Page Foundation 1
Ruth Page's International Ballet Company 1
Schipa, Tito, 1889-1965 1
Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth 1
Segovia, Andrés, 1893-1987 1
Snyder, Bill 1
Steinberg, William, 1899-1978 1
Stern, Isaac, 1920-2001 1
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet 1
Tallchief, Maria 1
Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet 1
Woolf, Sam 1
YMCA of the USA 1
YWCA of the U.S.A. 1
Zelzer, Harry, 1897-1979 1
Zelzer, Sarah Schectman, 1909-1998 1
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