Administrative Information
Provenance
Gift, Maxine Glorsky, 2018.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
Maxine Glorsky organized the collection with the assistance of Tiffany Nixon, archivist for Roundabout Theatre Company. K. Mitchell Snow and Libby Smigel processed the materials in 2018-2019 and Smigel coded the finding aid in 2020. Morgen Stevens-Garmon rehoused oversize light plots and stage plans and added them to the finding aid in July 2021.
Other Repositories
The New York Public Library Dance Division holds papers of Maxine Glorsky's production work for Dance Umbrella and other productions in New York City.
Related Material
The Library of Congress is rich in materials that document the life and career of American modern dance pioneer Martha Graham. Collections housed in the Music Division include: the Aaron Copland Collection; Armgard von Bardeleben Papers; Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection; Benjamin Garber Papers; Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski Papers; Ethel Winter and Charles Hyman Papers; Jane Dudley Papers; Helen McGehee and Umaña Papers; Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation ; Martha Graham Collection; Martha Graham Legacy Archive; May O’Donnell Papers; Miriam Cole Papers; Music Division, Old Correspondence Files; Pearl Lang Papers; Sophie Maslow Papers; Victoria Phillips Collection; Yuriko and Susan Kikuchi Papers, among other special collections and sets of correspondence.
The Manuscript Division holds two collections of relevance to Martha Graham research: the Frances G. Wickes Papers and the Lucy Kroll Papers .
For additional special collections related to production management and lighting design, another collection held by the Music Division that shows the development of lighting design for dance and Broadway is the Peggy Clark Papers . Additionally, the Rare Book and Special Collections Division holds theatre, dance, and other performance programs, catalogued at the item level, many of which document Jean Rosenthal's and Peggy Clark's contributions to lighting design.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Maxine Glorsky Papers Relating to Martha Graham, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.