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Online Archive of California. Photograph collection on Katherine Dunham , 1938-1959.

Title: Photograph collection on Katherine Dunham , 1938-1959.

This collection comprises approximately 875 photographs of Katherine Dunham and of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. The collection contains photographic prints, proofs, contact sheets, and postcards depicting performances, rehearsals, portraits, publicity efforts, and candid moments of Dunham's third European tour (1959-1960), tour of South America (1950), and some American performances. Particularly well represented are stage performances of L'Ag'Ya, Bahiana, Barrelhouse, Rites de Passage, Tropics, and Veracruzana. Of Dunham's feature films, only Mambo (1954) is represented within the collection. A few photographers are identified; if not stated, the photographer is unknown. The collection also contains typewritten letters concerning payment for photographs and other logistical matters of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 linear feet (3 boxes and 4 oversized folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191079416 View

Pratt, John, 1912?-1986. Reminiscences of John Pratt : oral history, 1981.

Title: Reminiscences of John Pratt : oral history, 1981.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 63 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309723005 View

Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993

Title: Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections 1831-1993

The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.

ArchivalResource: 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21884 View

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Katherine Dunham

Title: The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Katherine Dunham

Choreographer, dancer, and dance instructor Katherine Dunham (1909 - 2006 ) is credited with introducing international audiences to African aesthetics and establishing African dance as a true art form. Called the “Matriarch of Black Dance,” her groundbreaking repertoire combined innovative interpretations of Caribbean dances, traditional ballet, African rituals and African American rhythms to create the Dunham Technique, which she performed with her dance troupe in venues around the world. Dunham was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/17/2000 and 2/11/2001, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

OralHistoryResource: Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 9; Total Run Time: 04h 16m 56s

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2000.020 View

Walter Terry papers, 1913-1982

Title: Walter Terry papers 1913-1982

Walter Terry was a dance critic for the , the , and the . He also contributed a number of articles to other publications and he wrote several books on the subject of dance. Not only a writer, Terry was a juror for many dance competitions and he was speaker at many universities and public functions. The collection contains correspondence, artwork, personal and professional written material, photographs, ephemera, and oversized material. New York Herald Tribune New York World Journal Saturday Review

ArchivalResource: 80 linear feet; 133 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19832 View

Frederic Dannay Papers, ca.1920-1982.

Title: Frederic Dannay Papers, ca.1920-1982.

ArchivalResource: 85 linear ft (ca.25,000 items in 190 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079731 View

Dunham, Katherine. Reminiscences of Katherine Dunham : oral history, 1981.

Title: Reminiscences of Katherine Dunham : oral history, 1981.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 315 leaves.Tape: 9 cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309732189 View

American Ballet Theatre records, 1936-ca. 1967

Title: American Ballet Theatre records 1936-ca. 1967

American Ballet Theatre was founded in 1939 with the intention of creating an American company of international stature, a museum of the dance, “which would preserve the best of the classic tradition of Europe and at the same time lay the foundation for a new tradition, American in concept and spirit.” Its guiding principle was to encourage collaboration between artists with no single choreographer taking precedence. The records of the company attest to the pursuit of these goals.

ArchivalResource: 220 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19700 View

Jackson, Frederick, 1886-1953. Stormy weather : continuity and dialogue taken from the screen / Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; screen play by Frederick Jackson and Ted Koehler ; produced by William Le Baron ; directed by Andrew Stone.

Title: Stormy weather : continuity and dialogue taken from the screen / Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; screen play by Frederick Jackson and Ted Koehler ; produced by William Le Baron ; directed by Andrew Stone. 1943 June 1.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62698548 View

Jones, Lois Mailou. Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1920-1998.

Title: Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1920-1998.

Bulk of the materials document the professional life of Jones in the role of artistic mentor and Howard University faculty member.

ArchivalResource: ca. 80 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/738544276 View

Dunham, Katherine. Scrapbook: Clippings, announcements, programs and photographs,

Title: Scrapbook: Clippings, announcements, programs and photographs, 1937-49.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. illus., ports. 35-43 cm. (v. 5: 42 x 45 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78238050 View

Dunham, Katherine. Correspondence and contracts, 1946-1963.

Title: Correspondence and contracts, 1946-1963.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122535043 View

Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation research files, 1920-1989.

Title: Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation research files, 1920-1989.

Projects notes, newsletters, auction and exhibition catalogs, offprints ofarticles and clippings, programs and invitations to exhibitions and receptions, and othermaterial assembled by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation for reference.

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01894/catalog View

Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990. Selected Mark Turbyfill letters, 1907-1966.

Title: Selected Mark Turbyfill letters, 1907-1966.

The collection consists of letters selected by Mark Turbyfill. The majority of the letters are to Turbyfill from more than 100 correspondents, including Margaret Anderson, Baker Brownell, S. Foster Damon, Katherine Dunham, Henry B. Fuller, Harriet Monroe, Samuel Putnam, Leo Sowerby, Eunice Tietjens and Mark Tobey. The few letters about Turbyfill are largely recommendations addressed to Dr. Clark H. Slover of the Federal Writers Project who was considering Turbyfill for a Superintendent's position in 1935.

ArchivalResource: 2.00 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298240998 View

Berenson, Bernard and Mary. Papers, 1880-2002, 1880-2002

Title: Berenson, Bernard and Mary. Papers, 1880-2002 1880-2002

ArchivalResource: 72.0 Linear feet; (216 file boxes, 25 large format folders, 8 folders, 17 card file boxes, 18 photo boxes, 4 rolls microfilm, 8 boxes photocopies from other repositories)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/ber00008/catalog View

World Wide Photo Photographs of Katherine Dunham performing in Tropical Revue

Title: World Wide Photo Photographs of Katherine Dunham performing in Tropical Revue

Five photos of African American dancer Katherine Dunham performing in Tropical Revue with her dance company, the Negro Dance Group.

ArchivalResource: .04 linear feet (1 volume)

https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/13044 View

Robbins, Jerome. Musical comedies. Concert varieties. [Programs]

Title: Musical comedies. Concert varieties. [Programs] 1945.

ArchivalResource: various pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82655441 View

Dunham, Katherine. [Programs].

Title: [Programs]. 1935-

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56919411 View

Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Co. Washington Bureau. Pittsburgh Courier, Washington Bureau collection, 1946-1968.

Title: Pittsburgh Courier, Washington Bureau collection, 1946-1968.

Collection of the Pittsburgh courier Washington Bureau newspaper.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70962743 View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View

Barrelhouse blues (Choreographic work : Dunham) [clippings]

Title: Barrelhouse blues (Choreographic work : Dunham) [clippings]

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144657995 View

Katherine Dunham collection, [ca. 1941-ongoing].

Title: Katherine Dunham collection, [ca. 1941-ongoing].

Collection contains clipping, misc., photograph, program, publicity and souvenir book files.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430357619 View

Morrie Ryskind papers, 1911-1985

Title: Morrie Ryskind papers 1911-1985

Morrie Ryskind, poet, playwright, and columnist. Awarded the 1932 Pultizer Prize for drama for co-written with George Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin. Testified before the House Un-American Activities Hearings. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries and journals, and scripts by Ryskind. The bulk of the collection is scrapbooks, which have been microfilmed. These contain newspaper clippings pertaining to various productions, as well as Ryskind's published poetry and columns. Of Thee I Sing

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21390 View

Caird Leslie papers, 1915-1965

Title: Caird Leslie papers 1915-1965

The papers of include personal and business correspondence, autobiographical writing, and notes on ballet technique, particularly as taught by . Caird Leslie Adolf Bolm

ArchivalResource: 63 legal size folders in 4 document boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19764 View

Leslie, Caird. Papers, 1915-1965.

Title: Papers, 1915-1965.

The papers include personal and business correspondence, autobiographical writing and diaries, family snapshots and performance photographs.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (63 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122571646 View

Dunham, Katherine. Correspondence.

Title: Correspondence.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122573058 View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View

Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.

Title: Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.

Printed souvenir programs for theatrical and musical productions.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes (4.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02197/catalog View

Whiteman, Maxwell,. Whiteman Photographic Collection, 1860-1960.

Title: Whiteman Photographic Collection, 1860-1960.

This collection contains a variety of photographic formats including tintypes, lantern slides of Egyptian and Roman architecture, stereographsof 19th century events such as the Chicago World's Fair and scenes of New Hampshire and New York, and a group of 20th century photographs of Afro-American celebrities. The collection also includes scenes of 19th cent. Philadelphia and Schuylkill County; Italian paintings; Russian paintings; portraits of the Lehman family; the architecture of Alhambra, Spain; and the bookbinder, Harry C. Viti. There are photographs of the following individuals; Marjorie A. Costa, Marie Dressler, Lillian Evanti, Katherine Dunham, Eddie Leonard, Bill Kenny, Ethel Levy, Lucky Millinder, Margery Latimer, W.C. Handy, Mary B. Lehman, and John S. Ronig.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 cubic ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122635735 View

Barrelhouse blues (Choreographic work : Dunham) [clippings]

Title: Barrelhouse blues (Choreographic work : Dunham) [clippings]

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36089897 View

Van Scott, Glory. Glory Van Scott collection, 1974-2000.

Title: Glory Van Scott collection, 1974-2000.

The Glory Van Scott collection is comprised primarily of programs of performances Van Scott either produced, directed or wrote, including those dedicated to Katherine Dunham, that were performed at various venues in New York City. There are also a few reviews and other news clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517204 View

Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990. Mark Turbyfill papers, 1911-1985.

Title: Mark Turbyfill papers, 1911-1985.

Material relating to the life and career of dancer, poet and painter Mark Turbyfill, including three copies of his unpublished autobiography and many copies of published and unpublished poems.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft. (3 boxes and one oversize box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317711431 View

Dunham, Katherine. Katherine Dunham papers, 1919-1968.

Title: Katherine Dunham papers, 1906-2009.

The Katherine Dunham papers consists of correspondence, writings, scripts, notes on dance techniques, and musical scores with the bulk of the collection consisting of personal correspondence. This collection also highlights Dunham's early explorations as an anthropologist in the 1930s when she studied a multitude of movement types and dance forms. However, it is Dunham's focus on the movements and dances of the African Diaspora that so influenced her development as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. The rest of the collection consists of music from her field research in Haiti, photographs, and manuscripts related to her published works: The Dances of Haiti, Journey to Accompong, Island Possessed, and The Negro Dance. Among others, notable correspondents include Josephine Baker, Harry Belefonte, Doris Duke, W.C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Butterfly McQueen, Anthony Quinn, and Paul Robeson.

ArchivalResource: 80.00 cu. ft.

https://7009.sydneyplus.com/final/Portal/SIU.aspx?lang=en-US View

Photograph collection on Katherine Dunham, 1938-1959

Title: Photograph collection on Katherine Dunham 1938-1959

This collection comprises approximately 875 photographs of Katherine Dunham, the renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher, anthropologist, and humanitarian, and of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. The collection contains photographic prints, proofs, contact sheets, and postcards depicting performances, rehearsals, portraits publicity efforts, and candid moments. The collection also contains typewritten letters concerning payment for photographs and other logistical matters of the Company.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 linear feet; (3 boxes and 4 oversized folders)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0290243v View

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers (1880-2002, bulk 1880-1959) : a finding aid.

Title: Bernard and Mary Berenson, Papers (1880-2002, bulk 1880-1959) : a finding aid.

Includes Bernard Berenson and Mary Berenson's published and unpublished manuscripts, notes, diaries, letters, offprints of articles, surplus volumes of published books, biographical material, and personal photographs. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Bernard Berenson, but also some letters by the Berensons and Nicky Mariano. Among the correspondents included are: Baroness Alda Anrep, Margaret Scolari Barr, Robert Woods Bliss, Jacqueline Onassis, Kenneth Clark, Cass Canfield, John Coolidge, Duveen Brothers, William G. Constable, Charles H. Coster, Katherine Dunham, Max Eastmen, Henry Sayles Francis, Edward Waldo Forbes, Felix Frankfurter, Helen C. Frick, Isabella S. Gardner, Martha Gellhorn, J. Paul Getty, Bella da Costa Greene, Hamish Hamilton, Learned Hand, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Hofer, Robert Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Mary McCarthy, Agnes Mongan, Walter Pach, Harold W. Parsons, Carlo Placci, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Paul J. Sachs, Jacques Seligmann, King Gustaf Adolf VI of Sweden, Grenville L. Winthrop, and Edith Wharton.

ArchivalResource: 140 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463667699 View

Dance scrapbooks, c1951-1978

Title: Dance scrapbooks c1951-1978

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1701-lz View

Yarborough, Lavinia Williams. Lavinia Williams papers 1940-1989.

Title: Lavinia Williams papers ,1940-1989.

Lavinia Williams was an African American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who played an influential role in the development of modern and folkloric dances in Haiti, Jamaica, Guyana, and the Bahamas. She was a member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company between 1940 and 1945. Her daughter, Sara Yarborough, was a star dancer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. Williams died in Haiti in 1989.

ArchivalResource: 7.75 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/25573 View

Dannay, Frederic, 1905-1982. Papers, ca.1920-1982.

Title: Papers, ca.1920-1982.

Correspondence, outlines and drafts, manuscripts, letters of agreement, contracts, photographs, artwork, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 85 linear ft (ca.25,000 items in 190 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309773599 View

African Americans in the Performing Arts Ephemera Collection, 1925-1945

Title: African Americans in the Performing Arts Ephemera Collection 1925-1945

Programs and other printed material relating to musical, theatrical and dance performances as well as political events, collected by American writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/aapaec.htm View

Katherine Dunham [ca. 1945-ongoing].

Title: Katherine Dunham [ca. 1945-ongoing].

Collection contains program file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430390984 View

Dunham, Katherine. Miscellaneous manuscripts.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: various pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122582074 View

Durham, W. H. (Willard Higley), b. 1883. W.H. Durham papers, 1918-1949.

Title: W.H. Durham papers, 1918-1949.

Letters, publishers' agreements, Mss. of a few articles, and army papers (1918-1921). Includes letters from Stephen Benet, A.D. Hogdon of the U.S. Dept. of State, Chauncey Wells, T. Brooke, G. Wilson Knight, G.W. McEnerney, C.E.S. Wood, and katherine Dunham, mainly relating to his career as author and professor of English, University of California, and to the readmission of Irish poetess, Ella Young, to the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26038659 View

RISM Vertical Files, Bulk, 1960-2000, Bulk, 1960-2000 1900-2004

Title: RISM Vertical Files Bulk, 1960-2000 Bulk, 1960-2000 1900-2004

ArchivalResource: 30.0 linear feet

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/rism/vertical/vertical.html View

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Carl Van Vechten collection, ca. 1920-ca. 1955; (bulk 1940-1949).

Title: Carl Van Vechten collection, ca. 1920-ca. 1955; (bulk 1940-1949).

Catalogs, programs, announcements, and invitations documenting African American participation in the visual arts, dance, drama, music, and literature.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

https://dh.howard.edu/finaid_manu/202/ View

Johnson, Helen A. Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.

Title: Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.

The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.

ArchivalResource: 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122363936 View

John Jay Chapman papers

Title: John Jay Chapman papers

Correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and his family and friends, as well as compositions by him.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00932/catalog View

Katherine Dunham Dance Companies. [Programs]

Title: [Programs]

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184951148 View

George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

Title: George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

Papers documenting the American career of Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine. Also includes records of the New York City Ballet (1948-1987), and records of the George Balanchine Foundation and the George Balanchine Trust (1983-1989).

ArchivalResource: 115 boxes, 1volume, and 61 videotapes (62.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01785/catalog View