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Fred Astaire manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: 2070
Abstract

This collection contains drafts of Steps in Time, the autobiography of American actor and dancer Fred Astaire (1899-1987), first published in 1959. Materials reflect the work at various stages and include handwritten and typed drafts, notes, proofs, and galleys.

Dates: circa 1950s

Ross Brown theater photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 0314
Abstract

This collection contains stereoscopic and 35mm slides and black and white photographs taken of Los Angeles theatre and ballet performances. The photographs in the collection were taken by Ross Brown, who photographed performances in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: circa 1945-1960

Dancing Cansinos photograph album

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 8000
Abstract The Dancing Cansinos photograph album consists of photographs and ephemera relating to the Dancing Cansinos, a family of professional dancers who emigrated from Spain and eventually settled in Los Angeles. The troupe consisted of Antonio, Sr. and Carmen Cansino; their children Eduardo, Elisa, Paco, Jose, Antonio, Jr., Rafael, and Angel; Gabriel Cansino, a cousin; and, briefly in the 1930s, Margarita Carmen Cansino, who later became known as the actress Rita Hayworth. Rita Hayworth's parents...
Dates: 1920 - 1939

George Ellsworthe and Bud Vinci photograph albums

 Collection
Identifier: Coll2016-010
Abstract Approximately 1500 photographic prints, primarily candids of assorted sizes and mediums, produced by Ellsworthe, Vinci, their friends and family. The images emphasize the couple’s domestic life, leisure activities as well as professional pursuits and business ventures. Photographs document the couple’s home, holiday parties, social events, vacations, and hobbies. There are several images of various television, stage and film appearances that each man made, including two images of both Vinci...
Dates: circa 1900-2007

Laurell Gaines photographs

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6165
Abstract

Collection of photographs of dancers, musicians, and radio personalities, the majority of which are inscribed to Laurell Gaines. Also included are photographs of Gaines and her partner, Ted Vaun. Gaines was a ballet and ballroom dancer who performed in vaudeville, musical revues and Hollywood films from the 1920 to the 1940s.

Dates: 1920s-1940s

Collection of German cigarette cards on famous dancers of the world

 Collection
Identifier: 6214
Abstract Five albums of promotional sets of cigarette cards featuring pictures and text on famous dancers of the world, published by German cigarette companies in the 1930s. The contents of these albums were issued as collector's cards and distributed with cigarette packages from three companies: Orami and Eckstein-Halpaus--both in Dresden--and Garbáty in Berlin. Two of the albums are part of a series: "Berühmte Tänzerinnen und Tänzer" (Famous Dancers), published by Cigarettenfabrik Orami with...
Dates: 1930 - 1935

Saida Gerrard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0341
Abstract

The collection consists of costumes, manuscripts, programs, photographs, and clippings pertaining to choreographer/dancer Saida Gerrard from the 1930s through the 1970s.

Dates: 1930 - 1980

Grell/Colefax Russian Ballet Archive

 Collection
Identifier: 0315
Abstract The collection consists of films, books, photographs, sound recordings, posters, costumes, and artwork related to Russian ballet, chiefly the Bolshoi Ballet Company. Collected by Los Angeles resident Dwight Grell from the early 1950s through the 2000s. Many of the materials are in Russian. This collection represents a broad range of subjects: Russian and Soviet Dance; choreography and costume design; and Russian and Soviet culture, including popular culture, as reflected in programs, print...
Dates: circa 1950s-2000s

Nina Hard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6056
Abstract

This collection documents the life of Nina Hard, a German dancer, who at one time worked with German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The collection consists almost primarily of personal photographs, with some documents such as letters and legal documents.

Dates: circa 1870s-1970s, undated

Jacob's Pillow dance collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2007-007
Abstract

Dance and souvenir programs for Ted Shawn and his Men Dancers, 1934-1938, and for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, 1954-1955 and 1957-1958; publicity materials and dance programs, circa 1940-1949, for dancers Barton Mumaw and Foster Fitz-Simons; stylized drawings, circa 1936, of Ted Shawn, Barton Mumaw, Frank Overlees, Dennis Landers, Foster Fitz-Simons, Fred Hearn, and Wilbur McCormack; and photographs of Ted Shawn (1954) and Barton Mumaw (circa 1941).

Dates: 1934-1958

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Subject
Photographs 9
Dancers -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 7
Programs (documents) 6
Clippings (information artifacts) 5
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Correspondence 4
Audiotapes 3
Choreographers -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
Costumes (character dress) 3
Dance -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
Dancers -- United States -- 20th century -- Photographs 3
Modern dance -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 3
Photograph albums 3
Videotapes 3
Ballet dancers -- Soviet Union -- Archival resources 2
Choreography -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
Dance companies -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
Dancers 2
Dancers -- Germany -- 20th century -- Archival resources 2
Drawings (visual works) 2
Male dancers -- United States 2
Manuscripts 2
Modern dance -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 2
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Advertising cards 1
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Ballet -- Photographs 1
Ballet -- Soviet Union -- Archival resources 1
Ballet -- Soviet Union -- Photographs 1
Ballet companies -- Soviet Union -- Archival resources 1
Ballet dancers -- Archival resources 1
Ballet dancers -- Soviet Union -- Photographs 1
Certificates 1
Choreographers -- Archival resources 1
Choreography -- Archival resources 1
Cigarette cards 1
Cigarette cards -- Collectors and collecting -- Germany -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
DVDs 1
Dance -- Archival resources 1
Dance -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Pictorial works 1
Dance cards 1
Dance companies -- United States -- Management -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Dance photography -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Dancers -- Photographs 1
Dancers -- Pictorial works 1
Exiles -- Germany -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Family -- United States -- Twentieth century 1
Family archives -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources 1
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Fliers (printed matter) 1
Folk dancing -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Folk dancing, Romani -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Folk dancing, Spanish -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
Gay actors -- United States 1
Gay couples -- United States 1
Gay men -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Gays in the military -- United States 1
Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Archival resources 1
Identity cards 1
Jews, German -- California, Southern -- Archival resources 1
King Kong (Motion picture : 1933) 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Archival resources 1
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Archival resources 1
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography 1
Motion picture art directors -- Archival resources 1
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Stereoscopic photographs 1
Theater -- California -- Photographs 1
Typescripts 1
Women photographers -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Archival resources 1
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Language
English 15
German 3
Russian 1
 
Names
Limón, José (1908-01-12-1972-12-02) 2
Mumaw, Barton 2
Shawn, Ted 2
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation 1
Astaire, Fred 1
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Bailey Films (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Balasaraswati 1
Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982 1
Blom, Benjamin 1
Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR. Balet 1
Briscoe, Dolph 1
Brown, Ross 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) 1
Cansino, Eduardo, 1893-1968 1
Cansino, Elisa, 1894- 1
Cansino, Gabriel, 1913?-1963 1
Carousel Dance Theatre for Children 1
Carrick, Edward 1
Cecchetti, Enrico 1
Cigarettenfabrik Orami 1
Code, Grant Hyde 1
Collett, Dorothy 1
Craig, Edward Gordon 1
Cunningham, Merce (1919-04-16-2009-07-26) 1
Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965 1
Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929 1
Eckstein-Halpaus 1
Ellsworthe, George B., 1926-2012 1
Fitz-Simons, Foster 1
Gaines, Laurell, 1909-2004 1
Garbáty Cigarettenfabrik 1
Gerrard, Saida 1
Goya, Carola 1
Graham, Martha (1894-05-11-1991) 1
Grell, Dwight 1
Hawkins, Erick (1909-04-23-1994-11-23) 1
Hayworth, Rita, 1918-1987 1
Helfman, Max 1
Heritage Dance Company 1
Holder, Geoffrey 1
Holm, Hanya 1
Horton, Lester 1
Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 1
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 1
La Meri 1
Larrinaga, Isabelle 1
Larrinaga, Mario 1
Larrinaga, Norma Fae 1
Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova 1
Lewitzky Dance Company 1
Lewitzky, Bella 1
Leyda, Si-lan Chen (1909-03-20-1996-03-08) 1
Matray, Ernst 1
McElmurry, Charles O. 1
Miller, Charles James 1
Morgan, Barbara Brooks, 1900-1992 1
Newcomer, Lilian Hughes 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡ 1
Primus, Pearl (1919-11-29-1994-10-29) 1
Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943 1
Reynolds, Newell Taylor 1
St. Denis, Ruth 1
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers 1
Terry, Ellen, Dame 1
Terry, Walter 1
Tzerko, Aube 1
University of Judaism 1
University of Southern California 1
Vasilʹev, Vladimir Viktorovich 1
Vinci, Frank James "Buddy" 1
Weidman, Charles 1
Wigman, Mary 1
Zemach, Benjamin 1
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