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Arts Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Dorothy Hild papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates: 1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929-1980

Robert A. Signer - Ben Hecht research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Signer
Abstract

Materials collected by Robert A. Signer during research for an unfinished biography on Ben Hecht during the 1980s. Includes many reproductions of book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and legal documents. Also contains manuscript drafts of Signer’s biography, correspondence, transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews by Signer.

Dates: 1970s-2006; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1996

Ruth Page papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Page
Abstract

Personal papers of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. Materials include correspondence, choreographic and technical notes, address books, programs, press clippings and scrapbooks, journals writings, photographs, business records, audio recordings, and musical scores. Featured dance works include The Bells, Carmen, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday.

Dates: 1892-1997

Sherwood Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Anderson
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, audiovisual material, royalty statements, personal financial records, artifacts, miscellaneous ephemera, autographed works, and literary manuscripts (many unpublished; also fragments, notes, and tentative sketches for short stories) of Chicago Literary Renaissance novelist and poet best known for his 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio.

Dates: 1872-1992

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract

Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.

Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988

Zwiefka family dance papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Zwiefka
Abstract

Materials related to Evelyn Zwiefka's, Grace Zwiefka Thuis's, and Diane Lewandowski's dance instruction in Chicago primarily through the Chicago Park District and the Chicago Public School District. The women specialized in ballet, folk, Hawaiian, Polish, and Spanish dance.

Dates: 1890-1987; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1960

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Palestine 2
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Art -- Exhibitions 1
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Names
Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 3
Anderson, Margaret C. 2
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 2
Caylor, Rose 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 2
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 2
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 2
Africana Dancers 1
Aldis, Arthur T. 1
Anderson, Eleanor Copenhaver, 1896-1985 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Boni & Liveright 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Brand, Millen, 1906-1980 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Brent, Stuart 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
California Insurance Company 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Cavan, Jack 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chalif, Louis H. (Louis Harvey), 1876-1948 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago Daily Journal 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Christensen, Grace 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990 1
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Cottong, Kathy 1
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 1
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Dorsey, Jimmy, 1904-1957 1
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 1
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1
Dove, Arthur Garfield, 1880-1946 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Dux, Claire, 1885-1967 1
Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Eisendrath, William N. 1
Emerson, John, 1874-1956 1
Emmett, Burton, 1871-1935 1
Emmett, Mary 1
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 1
Esherick, Wharton 1
Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892- 1
Fairbank, Miriam 1
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 1
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 1
Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960 1
Freehling, Stanley 1
Funk, Charles 1
Gallagher and Ascher, Inc. 1
Gallinot, Ruth, Dr. 1
Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Graham, Martha 1
Haley, Alex 1
Harris, Julia Collier, 1875-1967 1
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961 1
Hecht family 1
Hektoen, Eleanor 1
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1
Hild, Dorothy 1
Horace Liveright, Inc. 1
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1
Irgun tseva'i le'umi 1
Jarvis, Isabel 1
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 1
Julien Levy Gallery 1
Klee, Rogers, Loeb and Wolff (Firm) 1
Kogan, Herman 1
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