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Indochina studies program grants collection, 1979-1990
approximately 963 items. 3 containers. 1.1 linear feet. -- Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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The collection contains project proposals and grantees' background information, as well as details on correlating cassettes and videocassettes with each project.
Tom Raymond collection
2 manuscript folders.. 12,437 photographs: color and black-and-white transparencies, slides, negatives ; various sizes.. 14 linear feet.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of photographs taken by Tom Raymond documenting storytellers and audiences at the annual National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, Tennessee, from circa 1984 to 2003. Most are 35 mm color slides and negatives. The collection documents the major storytellers and performers at the festival with more than 1,500 photographs of storyteller Ray Hicks taken at the festival over the years and at his home in Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
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Larry Colwell dance photographs, 1944-1966
438 items . 8 containers . 4 linear feet . -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Larry Colwell (1901-1972) was a noted American art photographer, best-known for his dance subjects as well as his figure studies. This collection of photographs consists primarily of large-format contact prints and negatives. A selection of mounted photographs showing his technique of capturing dance movement on film are also included. Subjects include some of the most famous ballet artists of the 1940s and 1950s, affiliated with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as well as George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Society (which became New York City Ballet). Other significant photographic subjects are Talley Beatty, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham. A small amount of professional papers are also included.
American Ballet Theatre archive, 1940-2014
6,333 items . 54 containers. 22 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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American Ballet Theatre (ABT), established in 1940 as Ballet Theatre, is recognized as one of the world's largest and most distinguished dance companies. By act of Congress on April 27, 2006, ABT became America's National Ballet Company. The archive includes music scores, choreographic notes and Benesh dance notation scores, correspondence, business papers, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, photographs, posters, video recordings and films, and prints and drawings, including set and costume designs. Note: the 54 boxes of processed photographs and dance notation described in this partial finding aid represent less than a quarter of the materials in the collection. An inventory of the entire collection is available in the Music Division's Performing Arts Reading Room.
Peter Angelo Simon performing arts images, 1984-2019
493 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. 114 digital files (28.6 GB). -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Peter Angelo Simon (born 1936) is an award-winning photographer known for capturing creative artists during their working process. This collection of still and moving images consists of negatives, contact sheets, slides, digital photographs, digital videos, and one printed photograph. Subjects include twentieth-century avant-garde operas, dance pieces, innovative directors, composers, choreographers, dancers, and street performers. Notable subjects are Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, Bessie Schönberg and Meredith Monk, and Merce Cunningham.
George and Mildred Schaefer collection, 1945-1996
approximately 1,500 items. 53 containers. 21.5 linear feet. -- Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Prolific director and producer of television, theatrical, and motion picture dramas, comedies, and musicals. The George and Mildred Schaefer collection consists of scripts, photographs, and memorabilia from George Schaefer's career, including a complete set of teleplays from Schaefer's many productions for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television program.
Look Magazine Picture Research File (Library of Congress)
ca. 53,000 photographic prints (chiefly b&w, a few color). ca. 1,800 safety and nitrate film negatives (chiefly copy negatives). ca. 1,300 color transparencies. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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A collection of chiefly photographic prints used as reference material on personalities and a variety of subjects for the publication of stories in Look Magazine. Material focuses on popular activists, entertainers, politicians, locales, major conflicts, and movements of the mid-twentieth century.
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Burk Uzzle photojournalism collection (Library of Congress)
246,887 photographs : chiefly black & white 35mm negatives and contact sheets. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Selections from Burk Uzzle's collection represent over 300 photo assignments for print media and corporate clients as well as some personal work. Subject coverage depicted in his professional work is broad with emphasis on places, people and events in the United States. Topics include business and industry, personalities and politicians, social protests, urban and suburban life, and the Woodstock music festival. His personal work, chiefly unidentified, shows images from his "American Landscape" series, motorcycles, his family, and other miscellaneous subjects.
Balthazar Korab collection
ca. 541,723 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Balthazar Korab is one of the three most significant American architectural photographers of the second half of the 20th century. His collection documents America's architectural ascendancy in the post-WWII period, including the works of famous architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, and more. Korab's interests also include the Prairie and Chicago Schools of architecture, Italian architecture, American automobile culture, the Midwest, historic houses, sculptures, and natural environments.
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U.S. News & World Report magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress)
whole collection ca. 1,228,000 items. ca. 45,500 contact sheets (1,182,500 images) : b&w and some color ; 9 x 12 in. or smaller.. ca. 1,182,400 negatives : film, b&w and some color ; 35 mm., 2 1/4 in., 5 x 7 in., and 8 x 10 in.. ca. 100 transparencies : film, color ; 35 mm., 4 x 5 in., and 8 x 10 in.. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Chronological pictorial representation of local, national, and international news topics, with particular emphasis on Washington, D.C., and the United States. Photojournalistic coverage of politics, government, economics, industry, education, domestic life, transportation, communication, health care, and housing. Documents political campaigns and conventions, congressional hearings, press conferences, foreign affairs, as well as space flight, consumer products, gas rationing, and campaigns for African American civil rights. Images related to protests and the aftermath of riots and material related to such issues of the period as civil rights. Covers events including the Vietnam War, Watergate, and statesmen's visits (for example, Richard Nixon's 1958 trip to the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States, and Fidel Castro's 1959 trip to the United States). Also includes Washington, D.C., sites, particularly federal government buildings and monuments. Portrayal of national political, religious, and cultural leaders and personalities. U.S. and international leaders include presidents, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin.
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