Mary Bruce portrait collection

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Mary Bruce portrait collection

approximately 1940-1950

https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24937946

Views of dancer and dance instructor Mary Bruce. One quarter-length studio portrait; one full-length portrait backstage at Carnegie Hall, 1950; one full-length studio portrait of a young girl, in a starbud costume.

<3> photoprints : silver gelatin, black and white ; 26 x 21 cm or smaller

eng, Latn

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11648366

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Bruce, Mary, 1900-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s57h67 (person)

Sadie Bruce and her sister, Mary Bruce, each operated their own dance schools in the Bronzeville section of Chicago. Sadie Bruce's dance studio was located at 54th and Calumet; Mary Bruce's was at 58th and South Parkway. The schools gave dance and music training to thousands of Bronzeville youth, and helped build public awareness of dance and music in the Black community. Mary Bruce, who grew up in Chicago, Illinois, studied ballet as a teenager. It was reportedly after seeing a performance o...