Marian Hannah Winter and Rose Winter memorial collection of prints

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Marian Hannah Winter and Rose Winter memorial collection of prints

1637-1975

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02414

Collection includes ca. 900 images depicting portraits, views, and scenes of entertainers, dance, ballet, acrobats, rope dancers, equestrians, animal acts, circus acts, fairgrounds, contortionists, and other general popular entertainments. Includes: broadsides, calendars, clippings, diplomas, engravings, Epinal prints, lithographs, menus, optical toys, photomechanical prints, photographs, playbills, posters, programs, sheet music, toy theater prints, watercolors, clippings, drawings, and other materials.

3.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11655449

Houghton Library

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Winter, Marian Hannah, 1910-1981

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Marian Hannah Summer (1910 – 15 December 1981) was an American dance historian. In the 1940s, dance historian Lincoln Kirstein solicited Winter to write for Dance Index, a magazine he headed. In contrast to Kirstein's analytical or polemical approach to history, Winter was more of an archivist. One of Summer's most influential works is "Juba and American Minstrelsy", published in 1947. The article sketches the life of Master Juba, a black American dancer active in the mid-19th century. Winter ar...