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BOX 23-24 |
Awards, 1979-2005
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Medals, certificates, programs, and items such as correspondence related to awards
conferred upon Dunham. |
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Arranged alphabetically. |
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BOX-FOLDER 23/1 |
Kennedy Center Honors, 2000-2005
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24 items |
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Dunham's Honors was conferred in 1983 |
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BOX-FOLDER 23/2 |
Living Legacy Award, Women's International
Center 2000-2001
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Includes clippings (photocopies) |
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BOX-FOLDER 24/2 |
Masters of African American Choreography, John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2005
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1 medal |
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BOX-FOLDER 24/1 |
National Visionary Leadership Project,
[2004]
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1 medal |
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BOX-FOLDER 23/3 |
Oprah Winfrey, 2005
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20 items |
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A Bridge to Now award for legendary
women |
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BOX-FOLDER 24/4 |
Republic of Haiti, 2005
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1 item |
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BOX-FOLDER 23/4 |
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
2001
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25 items |
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Africana Heritage Award |
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BOX-FOLDER 24/3 |
United States House of Representatives,
2004
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1 item |
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BOX-FOLDER 23/5 |
Various honors, 1979, 1986, 1989,
2001-2003
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19 items |
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Includes Black Heritage Award for Excellence in
Arts and Humanities, Brazil's Southern Cross of the Legion of Honor and the
Gold Medal of Merit of the Brazilian Committee on Dance, an honorary doctorate
from Harvard University, the 1979 Albert Schweitzer Music Award, among
others |
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BOX 17, 33 |
Production Materials, 1940-2006
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A small amount of materials related to productions in which Katherine Dunham
participated. Includes such items as programs, a poster, theatre seating chart,
music, publicity, and press releases. |
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Arranged alphabetically. |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/1 |
Music, undated
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2 items |
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Rehearsal piano score of L'Ag'Ya by Robert Sanders and a Bolero |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/2 |
Ode to Taylor Jones (lyrics), undated
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1 item |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/8 |
Poster, 2000
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1 item |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/3 |
Programs, 1940-1945, 1959, 1982, 1995,
2000-2005, and undated
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50 items |
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Includes clippings (photocopies) and excerpts from
programs |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/4-5 |
Program bios, press releases, 1940s?
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3 items |
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Bios are handwritten, for unidentified event or
performance |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/4-6 |
Seating map, 1940s?
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4 items |
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Windsor Theatre |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/7 |
Publicity, 1996, 2003-2006, and undated
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9 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/8-9 |
Scenarios, 1940-1954, and undated
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14 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/10 |
Tropical Revue, 1944
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18 items |
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Photocopies |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/11 |
Vodou Nation, 2004
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3 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 17/12 |
Zora! [Dunham-Forum], 2000
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1 items |
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BOX 33 |
Clippings, 1949-2006
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Small amount of newspaper clippings on Dunham's career. |
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Arranged by region of coverage. |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/1 |
Abroad, 1949, 2003, and undated
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15 items |
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Includes Denmark, Germany, Lebanon, Ethiopia,
Italy |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/2 |
East St. Louis (and Illinois) 1983, 1989,
2002, and undated
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28 items |
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incl. clippings (photocopies) |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/3 |
Harlem and New York City area, 1979-1994,
2005, and undated
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16 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/4 |
Los Angeles, 2006
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2 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/5 |
Philadelphia, 2004
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2 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/6 |
Published photos, undated
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3 items |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/7 |
Washington, D.C. area, 1979-1994,
2003-2006
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11 items |
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BOX 25-28 |
Katherine Dunham Legacy Project, 1987-2005
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The Doris Duke Charitable Trust funded the Library of Congress to undertake
activities to coordinate the preservation of significant Katherine Dunham records
and create an access plan. This series contains the records of planning the
project, the proposal and funding records of the DDCT grant, and the preservation
activities. Items include inventories of audio and video recordings, indexes to
Dunham holdings at other repositories such as Southern Illinois University and the
Dunham Museum, and conservation assessments, as well as the video documentation
project on Dunham Technique, among many other materials.
Some records that contain personal financial or banking information may be
restricted. Please inquire before visiting. |
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Arranged alphabetically according to subject. |
