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Dancers -- United States -- 20th Century

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Josephine Baker Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 108
Scope and Contents: The Josephine Baker Collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and printed material documenting the life and career of Josephine Baker between 1929 and 1968. Evidence of Baker's career as a performer can be found in her correspondence with managers and producers, clippings from her performances, and pamphlets and brochures from concerts. There is correspondence and printed material regarding her appearances in Argentina in 1947 and 1952 and in...
Dates: 1929-1968
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Josephine Baker Collection

Olivette Miller and Bunny Briggs collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 364
Scope and Contents: The collection includes materials related to both the personal and professional lives of Olivette Miller and Bunny Briggs. The collection includes Miller's contacts' addresses, correspondence, a scrapbook of clippings, and photographs. Scripts, contracts, and photographs related to Briggs' career are included. Also included are programs from performances that Miller and Briggs appeared in. Photographs and writings related to Flournoy E. Miller's biographical materials potentially relate to...
Dates: 1942-2019
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Olivette Miller and Bunny Briggs collection

George Sklar and Miriam Blecher papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1446
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, personal papers, and other papers by or relating to George Sklar and Miriam Blecher.

Dates: 1898-2001
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > George Sklar and Miriam Blecher papers

Bert Stimmel papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 733
Abstract: The collection contains research material, writings, printed material, photographs and audiovisual material, including sound and video recordings, scrapbooks, and other personal papers documenting the life and professional career of American-born performer and artistic director Bert Stimmel. Stimmel spent the bulk of his professional life in the U.S., from the late 1950s to early 1970s, and in Lebanon, from 1972 onward, and the collection features material accumulated around his professional...
Dates: 1785-2005, bulk 1950-2005
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bert Stimmel papers