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| Correspondence, 1939-1996 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Organizations, 1933-1996 | |||||||||||||
| Letters from organizations are primarily directed to Frank Eng or the general address for the Dance Theater and discuss activities, engagements, and promotion of the company. Correspondence with the Cincinnati Ballet Company details revivals of Horton's dances as reconstructed by James Truitte. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by organization name. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/19 | 5 by 2 Dance Company, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/20 | Abner J. Greshler Agency, 1955-1957 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/21 | Allied Arts Corporation, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/22 | American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc., 1951 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/23 | American Guild of Variety Artists, 1954-1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/24 | Bennett and Pleasant, 1953-1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/25 | Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1949-1968 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 19/26 | Cincinnati Ballet Company, 1971-1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/1 | Cocoanut Grove, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/2 | Community Concerts, 1952-1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/3 | Dance Magazine, 1947-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/4 | Dance News, 1949-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/5 | Dance Notation Bureau Inc., 1971-1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/6 | Dance Observer, 1949-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/7 | Dance Perspectives, 1966-1968 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/8 | Dance Theater of Harlem, Inc., 1971-1977, 1996 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/9 | Detroit Public Library, 1954-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/10 | First Unitarian Church, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/11 | Ford Foundation, 1956 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/12 | Grosset and Dunlap, Inc., 1972 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/13 | Hollywood Bowl Association, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/14 | Horton Reconstruction Committee, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/15 | Inner City Cultural Center, 1970-1977 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/16 | Joyce Trisler Danscompany, 1996 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/17 | Juilliard School, Dance Division, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/18 | League of Allied Arts, 1955-1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/19 | Lester Horton Dance Theater, 1936-1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/20 | Little Theatre of the Verdugos, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/21 | Los Angeles Herald Express, 1950, 1957 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/22 | Los Angeles Times, 1949-1960, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/23 | Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, 1957 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/24 | National Endowment for the Arts, Dance Division, 1968-1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/25 | New York Public Library, 1961-1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/26 | New York Times, 1949, 1963-1972 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/27 | Occidental College, 1946-1950 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/28 | Ojai Festivals Ltd., 1951 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/29 | Pryor-Menz Concert Service, 1949-1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/30 | Ramona High School, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/31 | San Diego Symphony, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/32 | San Francisco Contemporary Dancers, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/33 | Satoru Shimazaki and Dancers, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/34 | State University of Iowa, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/35 | Time Magazine, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/36 | Union Institute, 1995-1996 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 20/37 | University of California, Los Angeles, 1938-1975 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/1 | University of Chicago, 1949-1960 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/2 | University of Cincinnati, 1971-1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/3 | University of Southern California, 1957, 1969 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/4 | WCBS-TV, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/5 | Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, 1937-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/6 | Yuma Community Concert Association, 1952-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 21-23, 39, 43 MAPCASE 3 | Professional Papers, 1929-1992 | ||||||||||||
| Books, catalogs, programs, writings, and personal papers collected by Horton and Eng are included in this series. The majority of the series consists of writings and notes from Horton on various aspects of dance and writings by Eng on various aspects of Horton's work. There is a transcript of an unpublished interview conducted with Bella Lewitzky describing her early career with Horton. A file of programs contains ephemera likely collected by Horton and Eng and does not include any work created by Horton or the Dance Theater. Personal papers consist of auto and home insurance documentation, reference letters recommending Horton, and a file with material on his death and burial. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged by material type. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/7 | Auto insurance, 1948-1960 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/8 | Book lists, 1938, 1941 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 39/8 | Album del IV centenario Guadalupano, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/9 | Design in the Theatre, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/10 | Música y Danza, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/11 | New Mexico Indians, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/12 | Catalogs, 1938-1969 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/14 | Guild memberships (Horton), 1942, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/13 | Home insurance, agreements, and financial documents, 1938-1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/17 | Periodicals, 1935-1936, 1958-1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/1, 43/9 | Programs, 1927-1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/15 | Reference letters (Horton), 1947 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/16 | Vital records and estate (Horton), 1943-1953 | ||||||||||||
| Writings by Frank Eng | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/2 | Dance Perspectives article and early research, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/3 | Lester Horton, American dance pioneer, circa 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/4 | Memoirs of a man of displeasure, circa 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/5 | Notebooks, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/6-7 | Notes, 1957-1959 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/8 | Rivers and Streams, part 1, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/1 | Rivers and Streams, part 2, circa 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/2 | Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1971 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Writings about Lester Horton | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/3 | Lester Horton: Modern dance pioneer, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| By Larry Warren | |||||||||||||
| Book | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/4 | Published articles, 1937, 1948, 1954-1978, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/5 | Unpublished interview with Bella Lewitzky, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| Writings by Lester Horton | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/6 | Articles and notes, 1929-1947 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/7 | Choreographic Service notes, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/8-9 | Notebooks, undated | ||||||||||||
| MAPCASE-DRAWER 3/4 | Unidentified drawing, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 23-24, 40-41, 43, 45 | Photographs, circa 1935-1994 | ||||||||||||
| This series consists of formal portraits and snapshots of dancers and other individuals associated with the Dance Theater. Group photographs are organized under Dance Theater Company, and images from the opening night of Choreo '50 are filed together. Some folders contain photographic negatives of existing prints. Also included in this series are two photographic metal print plates, one of which features Leila Goldoni and the other Don Martin. Photographs of specific productions are organized under Individual Works within Production Files. Images of classes and children's performances are arranged under Education Files. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/10 | Album, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/8 | Bishop, Leigh, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/11 | Brunswick, Liz, 1956 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/9 | Covacevicia, Nick, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/12, 40/10-11 | Dance Theater Company, 1937-1953, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/1 | Dance Theater, opening of Choreo '50, 1950 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/2 | de Lavallade, Carmen, 1950, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/12 | de Lavallade, Yvonne, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/3 | Ellington, Duke, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/4 | Eng, Frank, 1953, 1994 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/5 | Finch, Constance, circa 1948 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/6 | Foster, Suzanne, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/13 | Gernreich, Rudi, 1949 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/7 | Goldoni, Leila, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 41 | Goldoni, Leila, undated | ||||||||||||
| Photographic metal printing plate | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/8 | Hanayagi, Tokuyae, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/9 | Hill, Jack, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/10, 40/14, 45/20 | Horton, Lester, circa 1935-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/11 | Johnson, Janice, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/12 | Johnson, Suzanne, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/15 | Kadden, Diane, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/13 | Katz, Gita, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/14 | Kawasumi, Nana, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/15 | Koerner, Martha, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/16 | Lewitzky, Bella, 1937-1950 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/17 | Limiou, Jeanna, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/18 | Maldonado, Larry, 1954-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 41 | Martin, Don, undated | ||||||||||||
| Photographic metal printing plate | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/19 | Maracci, Carmelita, undated | ||||||||||||
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