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Katherine Dunham collection, 1920-2006

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Subject Files, 1934-2006, and undated (continued)
Lincoln Academy of Illinois, 2004 (continued)
2 items
BOX-FOLDER 7/5 Missouri History Museum 2009
2 items
Inventory by Joanna Dee Das of Dunham papers at the museum
BOX-FOLDER 7/6 Moore, Doug, 2002
14 items
BOX-FOLDER 7/7 Morena Vega, Marta 1999-2001
15 items
BOX-FOLDER 7/8 Mozer, Gwen, 2005
1 fax
Interview questions
BOX-FOLDER 7/9 National Endowment for the Arts, 2000
2 items>
BOX-FOLDER 7/10 National Visionary Leadership, 2002 and undated
23 items
BOX-FOLDER 7/11 92nd Street Y, 2000
4 items
BOX-FOLDER 7/12 Osumare, Halifu, 1999-2002
19 items
BOX-FOLDER 8/1 Parker-Robinson, Cleo, 2000-2002
23 items
Programs and flyers, correspondence and cards, and other items
BOX-FOLDER 8/2 Parks, Trina, 2001-2002
17 items
6 photos
BOX-FOLDER 8/3 Performances, undated
2 pages
BOX-FOLDER 8/4 Poindexter, Robert F., 1992-1996, 2002
8 items
BOX-FOLDER 8/5 Redmond, Eugene, 1997-2004
36 items
Includes programs and flyers, publications, notes, newspaper clippings, and other items
BOX-FOLDER 8/6 Robinson, Marcia R., 2002, and undated
8 items
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Rose, Albirda, 2002
7 items
3 photos
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 Roth, Gabrielle, 2004
6 items
BOX-FOLDER 8/9 Sculpture, 2001, 2001-2002
6 items
1 photo, 4 postcards
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Seventh Principle Performance Co., 1995-2000
18 items
3 photos, communications, flyer
BOX-FOLDER 8/11 Southern Illinois University, Dunham Inventory, 1994
4 items
Inventories of the SIU Special Collection of Katherine Dunham papers
BOX-FOLDER 9/1 Sherrod, Gaynell, Dr., 2000-2001
12 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/2 Slaker, Melissa, 2003-2004
20 items
Includes Slaker's manuscript titled "Phally's Folly" and arrangements for Gallatin course at New York University
BOX-FOLDER 9/3 Sloat, Susanna, 2000
2 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/4 Speeches, 2000-2005
6 items
Includes commencement address "Reflections on Survival," 1972, and transcript of Dunham's "Message to the Haitian People," recorded 2004
BOX-FOLDER 9/5 Studio Museum in Harlem, 2003
11 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/6 Teachings, 1991, 1995
2 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/7 Thank-you correspondence from Dunham, 2003-2004, undated
22 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/8 Travel information, 2000-2004
95 items
Various conferences, research trip to Cuba
BOX-FOLDER 9/9 Unanswered email, 1990-2003
50 items
Communications from scholars, artists, students, children
BOX-FOLDER 9/10 U.K. Arts International, 2004
26 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/11 Van Scott, Gloria, 2000-2003
26 items
Includes communications on first annual Black Dance: Trandition and Transformation Katherine Dunham Legacy Award
BOX-FOLDER 9/12 Walker, Michael J., 2005
2 items
BOX-FOLDER 9/13 Watkins, Stephen, 2002-2003
5 items
Regarding L'Vodou Macbeth, revision of Orson Welles' Voodoo Macbeth
BOX 18-22 Writings, 1946-2007
Includes biographical, scholarly, and creative writing by Katherine Dunham and others, some published, and in the case of Dunham's writings some unpublished or in various stages of revision. Texts of two commencement addresses given by Dunham are included.
Arranged in two subseries. The Writings by Katherine Dunham subseries is arranged alphabetically by title. The Writings by Others subseries is arranged alphabetically by author or editor.
Writings by Katherine Dunham
BOX-FOLDER 18/1 Dances of Haiti, 1983
2 paperback books; 3 laid-in items
One copy is a review copy with laid-in items
BOX-FOLDER 18/2 The Dead Men of St. Marc, undated
Photocopy of typed manuscript with typed abstract
Subtitle: a novel; abstract describes it as an original story
BOX-FOLDER 18/3 Island Possessed, 1994
1 paperback book
Originally published 1969; University of Chicago Press edition 1994
BOX-FOLDER 18/4 Katherine Dunham's Journey to Accompong, 1946
1 hardback book with laid-in item
Review copy insert
BOX-FOLDER 18/5-7 Love Letters from I Tatti, 1980 and undated
Photocopy of typed manuscript; 3 volumes
Annotations and notes inserted by hand on original (before photocopying)
BOX-FOLDER 19/1-5 The Minefield, 1985, undated
Photocopies of typed manuscript
Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 19/6 Other Dimensions, 1990
Photocopy of hand-written manuscript
Graduation address for Haverford College, delivered by Glory Van Scott for Dunham
BOX-FOLDER 19/7 Poems, 1954-1955, undated
13 poems
BOX-FOLDER 20/1 Reflections on Survival, 1972
Photocopy of 2 manuscripts
Uncorrected draft and final version; address delivered at MacMurray College commencement on occasion of Dunham's acceptance of the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters
BOX-FOLDER 19/7 Review of The Altar of My Soul by Marta Moreno Vega, 2001
2 printouts and 1 draft
Printouts have minor editorial annotations; draft is handwritten
BOX-FOLDER 20/2 A Touch of Innocence, 1994
1 paperback book
Originally published 1959; University of Chicago Press edition 1994
BOX-FOLDER 20/3 Unidentified, undated
3 p
Hand-written drafts and notes
Writings by Others
BOX-FOLDER 21/1 Aschenbrenner, Joyce.
Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life, 2002
1 book
BOX-FOLDER 21/2 Aschenbrenner, Joyce.
Katherine Dunham: Reflections on the Social and Political Contexts of Afro-American Dance, 1981
1 paperback book
Dance Research Annual XII, published by Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
Includes notations and illustrations of Katherine Dunham technique contributed by Lavinia Williams
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