Mildred Davenport dance programs and dance school materials, 1914-1942.

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Mildred Davenport dance programs and dance school materials, 1914-1942.

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This collection comprises dance programs, dance school materials, photographs, and ephemera documenting the early career of the Boston-based African-American dancer, dance instructor, and civic official Mildred Davenport.

0.3 linear feet (1 box and 1 oversize folder)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 7578358

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Davenport, Mildred, 1900-1990.

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Mildred Ellen Davenport was a noted civic official and military officer with an extensive career as a dancer and dance instructor in Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born in Boston in 1900. In the 1920s she studied at the Sargent School for Physical Culture and at Harvard, and opened her first dance school, the Davenport School of Dance. Over the next ten years she studied under Ted Shawn and taught dance in Boston. From 1930 to 1935 she performed in a number of Af...

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