Collection of Carmen Tórtola Valencia photographs and ephemera

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Collection of Carmen Tórtola Valencia photographs and ephemera

1910-1955

https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/12289

Photographs, bookplates designed by Tórtola Valencia, programs, a letter, an issue of La Pelicula with a silent film review, and publicity material.

.15 linear feet

spa, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11666279

Houghton Library

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Valencia, Tórtola, 1882-1955

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Carmen Tórtola Valencia (June 18, 1882 – February 13, 1955) was a Spanish early modern dancer, choreographer, costume designer, and painter, who generally performed barefoot. Tórtola Valencia is said to have been the inspiration for Rubén Darío's poem, La bailarina de los pies desnudos ("The Barefoot Dancer"). Born in Seville to a Catalan father (Florenç Tórtola Ferrer, d. 1891) and Andalusian mother (Georgina Valencia Valenzuela, d. 1894), she was three years old when her family emigrated to...