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Hugh Lenox Scott papers, 1582-1981
40,000 items. 108 containers. 43.2 linear feet. 5 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Army officer and public official. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, memoirs, drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes, biographical and genealogical material, account books, financial papers, lists, printed material, maps, photographs, drawings, prints, and others papers relating to Scott's career in the United States Army from 1876 to his retirement following World War I, his service as a member of the State Highway Commission for New Jersey (1919-1933) and as chairman of the State Highway Commission of New Jersey (1920s), and to his work on Indian languages at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology.
Harriet Hoctor collection, 1868-1977
1,700 items. 8 containers. 4.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
American dancer and choreographer Harriet Hoctor (1905-1977) began performing on the vaudeville stage in the early 1920s. By the mid-1930s, she was a featured dancer on Broadway and in motion pictures. The collection documents Hoctor's professional life including items related to her early dance training at the Louis H. Chalif Normal School of Dancing in New York and her later career leading the Harriet Hoctor School of Ballet in Boston. Materials include choreographic notes, clippings, costume sketches, music, photographs, personal papers, programs, and correspondence from family members, former students, and notables such as Mary Pickford, Walter Winchell, and Florenz Ziegfeld.
Marge Champion collection, 1897-2014
approximately 9,600 items. 66 containers. 52.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Marge Champion (b. 1919) is an American actress, dancer, director, choreographer, and teacher. The collection, which documents her life and career, includes biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, programs, promotional materials, manuscript music scores and parts, articles, clippings, scripts, scrapbooks, awards and posters. The collection also holds materials related to Champion's former husband, director and choreographer Gower Champion, and her father, dancer, choreographer, and teacher Ernest Belcher.
Daniel Nagrin collection, circa 1920-2006
22,525 items. 80 containers. 41 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Daniel Nagrin (1917-2008) was an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer. The collection contains materials relating to his life and career, and includes holograph and published scores, choreographic and dance technique notes, photographs, correspondence, marketing and fundraising materials, clippings, programs, teaching and administrative materials, production elements, articles by Nagrin and others, drafts of his books, business papers, and personal and biographical files. In addition, there are significant materials related to Nagrin's first wife, dancer and choreographer, Helen Tamiris.
Ruth Page correspondence on Billy Sunday, 1944-1960
148 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
This collection consists primarily of the correspondence between American dancer-choreographer and company director Ruth Page or her first husband attorney Thomas Hart Fisher and composer Remi Gassmann, who was contracted to create the music score for Page’s ballet Billy Sunday (1948). Other letters to Gassmann from this period and a small number of programs and press clippings related to Page's or Gassmann's careers round out the collection.
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May O'Donnell papers, 1929-2004
160 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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May O'Donnell was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher; she performed in the original casts of seminal works by Martha Graham, and through her own choreography became known as among the earliest choreographers of abstract works. Her husband, Ray Green, composed music for many of her dance works. This small collection offers photographs, playbills and publicity, and reviews and other publications documenting some of her most distinctive achievements.
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Judith Chazin-Bennahum photograph collection relating to Antony Tudor, 1932-1971
122 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
This photograph collection documenting the career of English ballet dancer-choreographer Antony Tudor (1908-1987) was assembled by professor and scholar Judith Chazin-Bennahum (1937- ) in preparation for the publication of her book titled The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire (1994).
Valeria Ladd collection on the revived Greek dance, 1924-1967
83 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Valeria Gibson Ladd was a dancer with the Noyes School of Rhythm during the 1930s. This collection, consisting almost entirely of photographs, documents the practice of a genre of dancing based on the revival of Greek aesthetics and costume, as practiced by dancer Florence Fleming Noyes (1871–1928). In the early 1900s, Noyes established the Noyes School of Rhythm, where Valeria Ladd taught and performed.
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Joan Hill tap notation collection, 1983-1989
11 items. 1 container. 0.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Joan Armstrong Hill, pianist for tap master Leon Collins (1922-1985), developed a notation system to record Collins’s tap routines. The 11 self-published booklets explain the notation symbols and provide exercises and complete tap routines.
Herta Moselsio photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation, circa 1939
51 photographs. 1 container. 1 linear foot. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Herta Moselsio (1892-1978), photographer and ceramist, took photographs of Martha Graham performing Lamentation at Bennington College, while collaborating with her husband, Simon Moselsio, on filming the dance work. Lamentation had premiered in New York in 1930. Moselsio's film was released in 1943, but the actual year of photography and filming is not verified.
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