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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

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

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

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

Illinois Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Illinois Ballet
Abstract The Illinois Ballet was founded in 1959 by two former Sadler's Wells ballet dancers, Richard Ellis and Christine Du Boulay. The company presented several seasons of performances per year until its demise in 1972. The company remained constant with four soloists and ten corps members, and included two dancer/choreographers, Hy Somers and Dom Orejudos (aka Etienne). Collection consists of numerous performance photographs, programs and publicity material, a few pieces of correspondence and...
Dates: 1959-1972

Lillian Lipson ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lipson
Abstract

Around 150 pieces of ephemera, primarily performing arts, collected by Lillian Lipson. Collection includes programs, playbills, flyers, advertisements, tickets, menus, postcards, and brochures from dance, theater, and music performances in Chicago along with materials from local businesses and attractions.

Dates: 1933-1981

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

Hope Abelson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Abelson
Abstract

Materials related to the theater career, business, and personal life of Chicago theater producer and philanthropist Hope Abelson, including scripts, theater mementos, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video recordings.

Dates: 1914-2008; Majority of material found within 1949-2006

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Photographs -- 1951-2000 7
Programs -- 1951-2000 6
Photographs -- 1901-1950 3
Dancers -- Portraits 2
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Photographs -- 2001-2050 2
Playbills -- 1901-1950 2
Programs -- 1901-1950 2
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 2
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Theater programs -- 1951-2000 2
AIDS (Disease) and the arts 1
Artists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Audiocassettes 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Photographs 1
Ballet dancers -- Sweden -- Stockholm 1
Ballet programs 1
Broadway (New York, N.Y.) 1
Choreographers -- Illinois -- Highland Park 1
Choreography 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Clippings -- 2001-2050 1
Community theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Concert programs 1
Dance -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance -- Study and teaching -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Highland Park 1
Dance companies -- Photographs 1
Dance teachers 1
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance teachers -- Illinois -- Highland Park 1
Dance teachers -- Italy -- Milan 1
Dancers -- Photographs 1
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996. Concertos, tap dancer, orchestra 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews 1
Menus 1
Modern dance -- Illinois -- Highland Park 1
Moving images -- 1951-2000 1
Off-Broadway theater 1
Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Opera companies -- Photographs 1
Package tours 1
Personal correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Personal correspondence -- 2001-2050 1
Philanthropists -- United States 1
Photographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Playbills -- 1951-2000 1
Playbills -- 2001-2050 1
Posters -- 1951-2000 1
Printed ephemera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Printed ephemera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Scrapbooks -- 2001-2050 1
Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
Signatures (names) -- 1951-2000 1
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
Souvenir programs 1
Tap dancers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Theater -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Theater -- Production and direction 1
Theater -- Production and direction -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Theater -- Soviet Union 1
Theater architecture 1
Theater programs -- 2001-2050 1
Video recordings -- 1951-2000 1
Video recordings -- 2001-2050 1
Videocassettes 1
Women dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Women theatrical producers and directors -- United States 1
Works of art -- 1951-2000 1
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Language
French 1
Hebrew 1
Italian 1
Swedish 1
 
Names
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 2
New York City Ballet 2
Abelson, Hope, 1910-2006 1
Allard, Edith, 1927-2012 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
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Ballets russes 1
Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Braun, Eric, 1923-1970 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Chicago Opera Ballet 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Diggins, Dean 1
Draper, Paul, 1909-1996 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Egorova, Lubov Nikolaevna, 1880-1972 1
Ellis, Christine Du Boulay, 1923- 1
Ellis, Richard, 1918-2010 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996 1
Grimmer, Ann 1
Grimmer, Margot 1
Hightower, Rosella 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Illinois Ballet 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kazan, Elia 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kriza, John 1
League of Chicago Theatres 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Lipson, Lillian Rose Witz 1
Lookingglass Theatre Company 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance Company 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance School 1
Matthews, Dorothy 1
Mattison Trio 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). School of Communication 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Phoenix Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.) 1
Phyllis Sabold Dance Company 1
Price, Leontyne 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Royal Ballet 1
Steppenwolf Theatre Company 1
Stratford Festival (Ont.) 1
Tanno, Guy 1
Tebaldi, Renata 1
Uppman, Theodor, 1920-2005 1
Vickers, Jon 1
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960 1
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 1
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 1
Zanasi, Mario 1
Zoritch, George, 1917-2009 1
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