Administrative Information
Provenance
Purchase, Frank Eng (former business manager of Dance Theater and Horton's heir), 1995
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Michelle Forner first processed the Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection in 1997. Nancy Seeger edited the finding aid in 2012, and in 2020, Morgen Stevens-Garmon reorganized the collection and revised the finding aid.
Transfers
Audiovisual materials from the Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, where they are identified as part of the Horton Collection (MAVIS collection no. 12699) and the Lester Horton Audio Materials (MAVIS collection no. 3372). Inventories of these materials appear as appendices in the finding aid.
Related Material
The Larry Warren Collection on Anna Sokolow and Lester Horton contains material on the Dance Theater as collected by Horton's biographer. The Prevots Collection of Materials on Norma Gould also contains additional material on Horton.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.