Edna Lucile Baum papers, 1890-1981.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986

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Lucia Hosmer Chase Ewing was born March 24, 1897 in Waterbury, Connecticut to Irving Hall Chase, President of Waterbury Clock Company, and Elizabeth Hosmer Kellogg Chase. Lucia was the middle child of five sisters: Marjorie, Eleanor (Mrs. Charles P. Taft), Elizabeth I. (Mrs. John Griffith Davies), and Dorothy (Mrs. Edward Carmody). Lucia was educated at St. Margaret's School and Bryn Mawr College. She then moved to New York City to study theatre at the Theatre Guild Scho...

Baum, Edna Lucile

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Chicago dance teacher and author. Edna Lucile Baum was born in Georgetown, Illinois in 1894. She was raised on the South Side of Chicago, and became a renowned children's dance teacher. She started her dance studies with Mabel R. Wentworth in 1911, and later performed with Adolph Bolm, eventually becoming his assistant. She originally taught children's dance classes for the Chicago Park District and in the early 1930s she opened her own studio. In the late 1930s, for her...

Little Ballet Group.

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Beaumont, Cyril W. (Cyril William), 1891-1976

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Koesun, Ruth Ann

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Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938

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Troy Kinney was an American artist and writer on dance, noted for his etchings and his treatise The Dance, Its Place in Art and Life (1924), co-written with his wife Margaret West Kinney. Kinney was born December 1, 1871 in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Fine Arts at Yale. In 1900, he married Margaret West. He contributed articles on dance to magazines such as Century, Metropolitan, and New Republic during his career. Ki...

Nimura, Yeichi, 1897-1979

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