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Katherine Dunham collection, 1920-2006

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BOX 1-9 Subject Files, 1934-2006, and undated
Materials relating to individuals, professional associations and cultural centers, and other organizations.
Arranged alphabetically.
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Academic articles and essays, 1988, 1999-2000
22 items
Some annotations on essays
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Allen, Debbie, 1998-2002
12 items
Includes 2 photos
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 American Dance Festival, 1999-2005
147 items
Booklet on ADF's documentary film Free to Dance compiles more than 100 press notices and reviews
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Amos, Emma, 2000
14 items
Includes slide and printout of Amos painting of Dunham as well as other items
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Anderson, Eloise, 2004-2005
9 items
BOX-FOLDER 1/6-7 Archival documents for Library of Congress Dunham project, 1999-2004
103 items
Background documents, lists, budgets, correspondence related to Library of Congress Dunham Legacy project
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Arts for life, 2000
13 items
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Ayiti Oui, 2000
6 items
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Bates College, 2000-2003
4 items
Invitation to Bates event and Bates pamphlets
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Becker-Slaton, Nelle, 2004
1 letter and 14 color photos
14 photos
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Beckford, Ruth, 2003-2004
37 items
Proposals, budgets, draft contracts for Dunham Day Camp program
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Belafonte, Harry, 2000-2002
11 items
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Biographies, 1999-2005
74 items
Print and online biographical articles of Dunham
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Bloomberg, Michael, 2005
6 items
Birthday commendation letter
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Brainerd Institute, 1998-2002
7 items
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 Business papers - Contract, 1940
1 item
For Dunham and company involvement in production of play titled Little Joe
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Capitol Hill Day School, 2001
28 items plus 16 color photos
Photos of school's Dunham museum; art and notes from students; paper materials about the school
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 Caribbean American Emancipation Festival, 2001
16 items
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Caribbean Culture Center, 1999-2000
18 items
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 Carter, Terry, 2001-2002
48 items
Includes grant application copies for Dunham video project, and other correspondence and documents
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Clark, VèVè, 1983, 1997-2004
18 items
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 Congress on Research in Dance, 2005
4 items
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 Council for Positive Images, 2005
5 items
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 Cuellar, Vicki, 2004
3 items
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 de Rougement, Christiane, 2001-2004
12 items
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 Deren, Maya, 2000-2004
10 items
1 photo
BOX-FOLDER 3/7 Duke Ellington School, 2000
21 items
BOX-FOLDER 3/8 Dunham Center for Arts and Humanites, 2000-2006
30 items
Includes grant application and other materials
BOX-FOLDER 3/9 Dunham Institute, 1998-2002
34 items
BOX-FOLDER 4/1 Dunham students and colleagues, 1993-2005
11 items
Includes materials on Marie Brooks, Joseph Nash, Carmencita Romero, others
BOX-FOLDER 4/2-3 Dunham Technique, 2000-2005
76 items
Curriculum, flyers, photos, certificate application materials, final certification papers, and other materials
BOX-FOLDER 4/4 Estate of Edith Lutyens Bel Geddes, 2002
5 items
BOX-FOLDER 4/5 Freedom of Information Act, 1963-1967, 2000-2001
29 items
Dunham's FOIA requests and copies of redacted file from the U.S. Department of State
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 Gerstner, David, 2004
2 items
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 Godbold, Penny, 2002-2003
10 itmes
BOX-FOLDER 4/8 Harlem Tour 2001, 2001
1 item
BOX-FOLDER 4/9 Haiti, 2000-2004
13 items
BOX-FOLDER 4/10 History Makera, 2000-2003
30 items
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Historyonics Theatre Company, 2004
11 items
BOX-FOLDER 5/2-3 Institutional invitations, 1999-2001
101 items
BOX-FOLDER 5/4-5 Institutional requests, 1999-2005
131 items
2 photos, 1 CD
BOX-FOLDER 5/6 Institutional thank-yous, 1999-2006
74 items
Includes 7 photos documenting student visit to Dunham Museum
BOX-FOLDER 6/1 Interviews, 1999-2006
52 items
Interview questions, transcripts (including Popular Balanchine project), correspondence, and other items
BOX-FOLDER 6/2 Ife Ile, 2001-2004
42 items
Includes CD along with flyers, correspondence, and other items
BOX-FOLDER 6/3 Jackson, Eugene Carlene, 2003-2004
5 items
BOX-FOLDER 6/4, 7/1 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, 1955, 1964, 2001-2005
141 items
Includes two early Pillow souvenir programs, contracts and flyers, correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 7/2 Jamison, Theodore H., [2003]
2 items
Resume and biography
BOX-FOLDER 7/3 Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1934, 1990, 2001
5 items
Copy of Dunham's 1934 application for a Juius Rosenwald fellowship
BOX-FOLDER 7/4 Lincoln Academy of Illinois, 2004
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