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Harriet Lundgren papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Lundgren
Abstract

Material relating to the career of Chicago ballet dancer Harriet Lundgren. Includes three scrapbooks of clippings, articles, pictures and reviews regarding Lundgren, other dancers, and opera singers of the 1920s and 1930s. Also, a few articles and magazine excerpts on the ballet, several programs, and a collection of miscellaneous photographs of performers and celebrities.

Dates: 1917-1991; Majority of material found within 1920-1938

Eugene Olshansky photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Olshansky
Abstract

Photographs of productions staged by the Original Ballets Russes (aka the Ballet Russes du Col. W. de Basil) and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo between 1935 and 1941, taken by Chicago businessman and balletomane Eugene Olshansky. Also, two operatic portraits, a few personal photographs, and several pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1935-1986; Majority of material found within 1935-1941

Diana Huebert papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Huebert
Abstract

Material collected by dancer Diana Huebert (Mrs. Abel Faidy), the bulk consisting of programs and photographs of herself and other dancers. Also, some articles she wrote or saved, including an autobiographical sketch, choreographic notes, and miscellaneous material relating to her husband, architect and designer Abel Faidy.

Dates: 1916-1983

Margot Grimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Grimmer
Abstract

Material relating to the career of Chicago dancer Margot Grimmer, including clippings, advertising items, programs, a few miscellaneous incoming letters, and numerous photographs.

Dates: 1956-1984

May O'Donnell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-O'Donnell
Abstract

Material relating to the career of modern dancer May O’Donnell, consisting of advertising and announcements, articles, reviews, programs and photographs. Also a few miscellaneous items, some of which relate to O’Donnell’s husband, musician Ray Green.

Dates: 1934-1996

Ruth Levy dance photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-LevyR
Abstract Ruth Levy, who performed as a dancer with the Pavley/Oukrainsky Junior Ballet, received a master’s degree in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. This collection includes her slides, negatives, proof sheets, and prints of dancers in several companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet among others. Some of these photographs...
Dates: 1928-1976; Majority of material found within 1970-1973

Edna Lucile Baum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Baum
Abstract

Material relating to Chicago dance teacher and author Edna Lucile Baum, which includes incoming correspondence, writings, photographs, programs, dance notations and other miscellaneous printed items, scrapbooks and notebooks.

Dates: 1890-1981

Dean Diggins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Diggins
Abstract

Material regarding Diggins’s career as a tap dancer and teacher, including class notes while studying with Paul Draper, plus clippings, photographs, programs, publicity items and scrapbooks relating to his ten years as a part of the Mattison Trio. Also, his choreographic notes for tap routines composed for classical music and audio and video tapes of some of those dances.

Dates: 1956-1995

Edna L. McRae papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-McRae
Abstract Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adolph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Papers include correspondence, biographical information, brochures, clippings, programs, numerous photographs, personal and dance notation notebooks, card files, address books, and eight albums...
Dates: 1910-1990

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

Arts Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Helen Balfour Morrison photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morrison PC
Abstract

A preliminary inventory of photographs taken by Helen Balfour Morrison intended for a “Great Americans” series of portraits. The collection includes over 900 prints, with over 550 unique images. Individuals represent a wide range of professions including visual and performing artists, educators and academics, architects, journalist and literary writers, scientists, social activists, and business and government leaders.

Dates: approximately 1935-approximately 1957

Cloyd Head papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Head
Abstract

Writings and correspondence, souvenirs and miscellany of Cloyd Head, Chicago playwright, theatrical director, business manager of the Goodman Theatre and husband of the poet Eunice Tietjens.

Dates: 1881-1968

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Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Graham, Martha 3
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 3
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 3
Art Institute of Chicago 2
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Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 2
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 2
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 2
Ailey, Alvin 1
Aldis, Arthur T. 1
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 1
American Ballet Theatre 1
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Aragno, Anna 1
Arpino, Gerald 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Baker, Anna 1
Balanchine, George 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Ballets russes du Col. W. de Basil 1
Barr, Howard, 1922-2014 1
Baum, Edna Lucile 1
Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company 1
Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Bonnefoux, Jean-Pierre 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Bortoluzzi, Paolo, 1938- 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Braun, Eric, 1923-1970 1
Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955 1
Burke, Dermot 1
Bush Conservatory (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
California Insurance Company 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986 1
Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-1980 1
Chicago Allied Arts, Inc. 1
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Little Theatre Company 1
Chicago Public Library 1
Christensen, Grace 1
Chryst, Gary 1
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Corkle, Francesca 1
Cottong, Kathy 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
D'Antuono, Eleanor 1
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
Danais, Starr 1
Darpana Academy of the Performing Arts 1
De Conville, Phillipe 1
De Mille, Agnes 1
Diamond, Matthew, 1951- 1
Diggins, Dean 1
Dobson, Deborah 1
Doctoroff, John, 1893-1970 1
Dodson, Daryl 1
Draper, Paul, 1909-1996 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966 1
Dunham, Katherine 1
Dunne, James 1
Dux, Claire, 1885-1967 1
Eisendrath, William N. 1
Ellis, Richard, 1918-2010 1
Endō, Akira 1
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 1
Faidy, Abel, 1894-1965 1
Fairbank, Miriam 1
Falco, Louis 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991 1
Freehling, Stanley 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Gallagher and Ascher, Inc. 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996 1
Green, Ray, 1908-1997 1
Gregory, Cynthia 1
Grimmer, Ann 1
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