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Ruth Kilbourn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Kilbourn
Abstract

Small collection of memorabilia, photographs and performance programs and announcements of Ruth Kilbourn, who ran a dance studio in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1940s. Includes a pair of toe shoes

Dates: approximately 1947-1949
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

Ernestine Stodelle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stodelle
Abstract

Collection of files kept by Ernestine Stodelle regarding her professional life as dancer, teacher, author and dance critic. Material relates to Stodelle’s own career and her association with dance figures Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jose Limon and Louis Horst. Consists of correspondence, articles, clippings, lectures, programs, reviews, tributes, photographs, dance descriptions and reconstructions.

Dates: 1925-2006
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

Katharane Edson Mershon papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Mershon
Abstract

Small collection consisting of one letter to California dancer and dance ethnographer Katharane Edson Mershon, a few writings on Eastern philosophy and “I Ching”, and photographs, both of Mershon and of miscellaneous, mostly unidentified people.

Dates: 1895-1986
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

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
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

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
Found in: The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives

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Dancers -- Portraits 4
Photographs -- 1951-2000 4
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
Choreographers -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
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Manuscripts, American 2
Ballet dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Buddhism 1
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Dance -- Study and teaching -- California 1
Dance -- Study and teaching -- Connecticut 1
Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance notation 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Modern dance -- Study and teaching 1
Modern dance -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Programs 1
Programs -- 1901-1950 1
Programs -- 1951-2000 1
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 1
Sound recordings -- 1951-2000 1
Toe shoes 1
Wisconsin Dells (Wis.) -- Description and travel 1
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Names
Graham, Martha 2
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
Balanchine, George 1
Baum, Edna Lucile 1
Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976 1
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Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986 1
Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.) 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Doris Humphrey Society 1
Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 1
Horst, Louis 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 1
José Limón Dance Company 1
Karsavina, Tamara 1
Kilbourn School of Dancing 1
Kilbourn, Ruth 1
Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938 1
Legat, Nikolaĭ Gustavovich, 1869-1937 1
Limón, José 1
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
Little Ballet Group 1
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 1
Matsumoto, Kōshirō, 1870-1949 1
McRae, Edna L. 1
McRae, Elma Marie 1
Mershon, Katharane Edson 1
Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992 1
Nimura, Yeichi, 1897-1979 1
Oukrainsky, Serge, 1886-1972 1
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 1
Spencer, A. C. (Arthur Champlin), 1872- 1
Stodelle, Ernestine 1
Trefilova, Vera, 1875-1943 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Van Praagh, Peggy 1
Watt, Nina 1
Weidman, Charles 1
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