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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

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

Iva Kitchell papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Kitchell
Abstract Six scrapbooks and large folder of loose material relating to the dance and performance career of Iva Kitchell. Scrapbooks contain articles, clippings, programs, reviews, advertising material, memorabilia and other miscellaneous items that cover Kitchell’s life, from her affiliation with the Chicago Civic Opera Ballet in 1926 to her retirement from an international stage career as a satiric dance mime in 1961. Also, a 1984 catalog of an exhibition of the paintings by her husband Stokely...
Dates: 1926-1984; Majority of material found within 1926-1958

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

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

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

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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Dance companies -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Scores (documents for music) 3
Scrapbooks -- 1901-1950 3
Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000 3
Ballet dancers 2
Dancers -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
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Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Programs 2
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Ballet dancers -- Photographs 1
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Dance -- Humor 1
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Dance -- United States 1
Dance companies -- Photographs 1
Dance schools -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Diaries 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Male dancers 1
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Names
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 4
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 3
Chicago Opera Ballet 3
Balanchine, George 2
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 2
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Lyric Opera of Chicago 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Bush Conservatory (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago City Ballet 1
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Graham, Martha 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Karsavina, Tamara 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kitchell, Iva, 1908-1983 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Kriza, John 1
Legat, Nikolaĭ Gustavovich, 1869-1937 1
Levine, James 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Lundgren, Harriet, 1907-1996 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 1
McRae, Edna L. 1
McRae, Elma Marie 1
Mejia, Paul 1
New York City Ballet 1
Newhouse, Kathie 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
Oukrainsky, Serge, 1886-1972 1
Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- 1
Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Price, Leontyne 1
Ravinia Company 1
Ravinia Festival Association 1
Ravinia Park (Highland Park, Ill.) 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Royal Ballet 1
Ruth Page Foundation 1
Ruth Page's International Ballet Company 1
Salla, Salvatore 1
Steinberg, William, 1899-1978 1
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet 1
Tallchief, Maria 1
Tebaldi, Renata 1
Trefilova, Vera, 1875-1943 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Uppman, Theodor, 1920-2005 1
Van Praagh, Peggy 1
Vickers, Jon 1
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960 1
Webster, Stokely 1
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 1
Zanasi, Mario 1
Zoritch, George, 1917-2009 1
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