Administrative Information
Provenance
Purchase; Lion Heart Autographs, Inc.; 1995
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Ruth Page Correspondence on Billy Sunday was processed by Rodney Todd in 1997. The finding aid was revised and coded for EAD format by Libby Smigel in 2015.
Other Repositories
Related manuscript and audiovisual collections on Ruth Page are held in the Newberry Library, the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Chicago Film Archives. The Remi Gassmann papers are held by the University of California, Irvine. Papers of William Ashley "Billy" Sunday, the historical figure whose sermons inspired Page's choreography, can be found at the library of Grace College and Theological Seminary, Indiana.
Related Material
The Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) of the Library of Congress received 129 videotapes and transcripts of interviews from Thea Flaum Productions Ltd. for its Ruth Page Archives in 1990. Photos of Ruth Page can be found in the Arnold Genthe Collection in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division and in the Adolph Bolm Collection in the Library of Congress Music Division. A small amount of correspondence from or to Ruth Page is included among the Irving Berlin, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Aaron Copland, and Alexandra Danilova collections in the Music Division.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Ruth Page Correspondence on Billy Sunday, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.