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BOX 11-15 | Martha Graham Dance Company, 1942-1959 | ||||||||||||
Reproductions of approximately 1,400 items assembled in comb bindings | |||||||||||||
Archival correspondence, receipts and financial reports, contracts, program planning, theatre specs, and other materials related to performances of the Graham company, especially tours abroad. Collection donor had these research materials bound into comb bindings. Highlights of this series include the 1946 tour promoted by Sol Hurok, the 1946 summer dance program hosted at Connecticut College, and the U.S. State Department-sponsored tours to Asia in the 1950s. | |||||||||||||
The bound research volumes, which often span a number of years and tour locations, are organized in an approximate chronology. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 11/1 | Austin Wilder artist management, 1942-1945 | ||||||||||||
Correspondence with Austin Wilder Artist Management, financial reports and receipts, contracts | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 11/2 | Financials and company records, 1942-1949 | ||||||||||||
Contracts, receipts, and financial reports related to several performances from 1942 to 1949 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 11/3 | Hurok tour records, 1942-1946 | ||||||||||||
Includes Hurok tour of 1946, some press and other items related to 1944 Appalachian Spring production | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 11/4 | Connecticut College summer program, 1948 | ||||||||||||
Includes brochure, correspondence, financials | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 11/5 | Tour records, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
For 1949 touring | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 11/6 | Tour records, 1946-1949 | ||||||||||||
Chiefly documents related to Fall 1949 tour, with several documents on earlier appearances | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 12/1 | Tour records, 1947-1950 | ||||||||||||
Includes records of 1947 Hurok tour and 1948 performances, as well as correspondence, shipping crates, music planning, and financial records of 1950 European tour | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 12/2 | Financial records, 1948-1949 | ||||||||||||
Chiefly contracts, daily reports, and receipts related to 1949 performances | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 12/3 | Tour records, 1949 | ||||||||||||
Includes correspondence with Austin Wilder Artist Management, financial reports and receipts, contracts | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 12/4-6 | European Tour records, 1950 | ||||||||||||
Includes correspondence related to 1950 European tour, as well as receipts, programs, insurance policies, budgets | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 13/1-2 | Financial and tour records, 1942-1955, and undated | ||||||||||||
Financial records of the 1940s, bound with 1955 tour correspondence and arrangements for several Asian cities | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 13/3 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1957 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tours to Rangoon, Burma | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 13/4 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1957 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tours to Kuala Lurpur, Malaysia, along with some documents for tours to Madras, India, and Seoul, Korea | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 13/5 | Tour records, 1955-1956, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1956 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tours to Calcutta, India | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 14/1 | Tour records, 1955-1956, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1956 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tours to Singapore and Calcutta, India | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 14/2 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1957 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tour to Jakarta, Indonesia | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 14/3-4 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1957 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tour to Israel | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 14/5, 15/1 | Tour records, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1956 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tour to Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 15/2-3 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1957 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tour to Tehran and Abadan, Iran | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 15/4 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1956 correspondence, budgets, etc. related to arrangements for tour to Manilla and similar materials 1955-1957 for tour to India | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 15/5 | Tour records, 1955-1957, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1957 correspondence and budgets related to arrangements for tour to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and some similar materials for tour to India | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 15/6 | Tour records, 1955-1959, and undated | ||||||||||||
Primarily 1955-1956 correspondence and budgets related to arrangements for tour to India; several items dated 1959 related to planned programming in Bangkok | |||||||||||||
BOX 17 | New Dance Group, 1930s-1998 | ||||||||||||
Materials copied from the New Dance Group (NDG) archives before the NDG collection was donated to the Library of Congress in 2009, soon after NDG ceased operation. Some of these items were not among the papers transferred to the Library of Congress. | |||||||||||||
Arranged by subject. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 17/1 | NDG Soviet Photographs, circa 1930s | ||||||||||||
36 reproductions in comb binding | |||||||||||||
Notation as being from Book #1 NDG Archive | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 17/2-4 | NDG Business Documents, 1936-1955 | ||||||||||||
Approximately 157 reproductions in 3 comb bindings | |||||||||||||
Correspondence, meetings minutes and notes, budgets, press release, reports | |||||||||||||
Several annotations | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 17/5-6 | NDG Clippings, 1939-1998 | ||||||||||||
Approximately 106 items in 2 comb bindings | |||||||||||||
Reproductions of scrapbook pages: primarily newspapers clippings, but also photos, bios, press releases, and recital programs | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 17/7 | NDG Works Chronology, undated | ||||||||||||
5 p. | |||||||||||||
Covers years from 1934 to 1965 | |||||||||||||
BOX 18-19 | Oral Histories, 1952-2009 | ||||||||||||
Primarily transcripts of interviews conducted by Victoria Phillips during the course of research, along with a copy of the signed release form of the subject. Includes also a few excerpts of interviews conducted by others, in which case name of the interviewer is noted. | |||||||||||||
Arranged alphabetically by last name of subject. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 18/42 | Anthony, Mary, 2006 | ||||||||||||
52 p. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 18/43 | Gifford, Joseph, 2005 | ||||||||||||
52 p. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 18/44 | Graham, Martha, 1952 | ||||||||||||
5 p. | |||||||||||||
Conducted by Francis Mason | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 18/45 | Hinkson, Mary, and Bertram Ross, 2000 | ||||||||||||
2 transcripts in a comb binding | |||||||||||||
Conducted by Janet Eilber One interview is of Mary Hinkson only; the other of both Hinkson and Betram Ross; both were part of the Library of Congress Legacy of Martha Graham initiative of 2000 |
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BOX-FOLDER 18/46 | Manings, Muriel, 2007 | ||||||||||||
55 p. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 19/1 | Merz, Martha, 2009 | ||||||||||||
2 copies | |||||||||||||
Conducted by Elizabeth Aldrich and Victoria Phillips | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 19/2/ | Ross, Bertram, 1978 | ||||||||||||
Excerpts 10 p. | |||||||||||||
Conducted by Jean Nuchtern for NYPL | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 19/3 | Stein, Rebecca, 2007 | ||||||||||||
61 p. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 19/4 | Winter, Ethel, 2004 | ||||||||||||
23 p. | |||||||||||||
BOX 22-23 | Photographs, 1928-2010 | ||||||||||||
Original photographs and later reproductions of original materials or images. Some items are composite scans of multiple images. These photographs were collected through Victoria Phillips's archival research as well as her direct communications with artists active in the 1930s through the Cold War. | |||||||||||||
Arranged alphabetically by subject name. Dances with known choreographer are placed under choreographer's name rather than the name of the dancer(s) pictured. Unidentified or undated items are grouped at the end of the series. | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/1-4 | Anthony, Mary, circa 1952-1956 | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/1 | Choreography: The Devil in Massachusetts, 1952 | ||||||||||||
1 photograph | |||||||||||||
Digital content available | |||||||||||||
Photographer: unknown Rehearsal photos of Mary Anthony's dance work |
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BOX-FOLDER 22/2 | Choreography: Look Up and Live episode, early 1950s | ||||||||||||
8 prints | |||||||||||||
Episode titled Story of Sam Jones from CBS Sumday morning ecumenical series titled Look Up and Live | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/3 | Mary Anthony Dance Theatre company logo, undated | ||||||||||||
1 print | |||||||||||||
Logo of the Mary Anthony Dance Theatre, founded in 1956 | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/4 | Teaching: studio class, undated | ||||||||||||
6 prints | |||||||||||||
Technique class probably at Mary Anthony Dance Studio Dancers: unidentified |
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BOX-FOLDER 22/5 | Cabin in the Sky poster, circa 1940 | ||||||||||||
1 print | |||||||||||||
Featuring Ethel Waters, Katherine Dunham | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/6 | Camp Kinderland / Camp Woodland, 1928-1936, and undated | ||||||||||||
Approximately 6 prints | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/7 | Cole, Jack, with Rebecca Lee, circa 1943 | ||||||||||||
3 prints | |||||||||||||
Scene shot of Wedding of a Solid Sender, choreographed by Jack Cole | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/8 | Cunningham, Merce, 1942, 1944 | ||||||||||||
2 postcards | |||||||||||||
Photographer: Barbara Morgan Dance works pictured: Totem and Root of the Unfocus II |
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BOX-FOLDER 22/9 | Dies, Martin, circa 1930s | ||||||||||||
1 print | |||||||||||||
Congressman Martin Dies with other congressmen | |||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/10-23 | Dudley, Jane circa 1937-1990s | ||||||||||||
BOX-FOLDER 22/10 | Choreography: Cante Flamenco, circa 1944 | ||||||||||||
2 prints | |||||||||||||
Photographer: unknown Dancer: Jane Dudley |
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BOX-FOLDER 22/11 | Choreography: Daybreak, 1988 | ||||||||||||
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