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Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.)

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Allied Arts records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allied Arts
Abstract Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Allied Arts Corporation management was taken over by Harry and Sarah Zelzer in 1948 and became the premier agency for bringing performing artists to Chicago. Important artists and groups include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Glenn Gould, and singers Tito Schipa and Judy Garland. Collection also includes original photographs taken in venues...
Dates: 1913-1997

Auditorium Theater programs

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Auditorium
Abstract

Programs and other materials for events taking place in the early years at Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Envisioned as a world-class theater and opera house by Chicago impresario Ferdinand Peck, the Adler and Sullivan-designed Auditorium opened in 1889 on the corner of Congress and Michigan Avenue.

Dates: 1888-1938

Dankmar Adler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adler
Abstract Correspondence, autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect, acoustician, and partner of Louis Sullivan in the Adler and Sullivan architectural firm. Also other family and research materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's granddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater, Stock Exchange Building, Garrick Theater Building, and the...
Dates: 1857-1984

Frederic Grant Gleason papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

Harriet Monroe Memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-169
Abstract

A few items relating to poet and editor Harriet Monroe, consisting of two short notes, three subscription forms, and one clipping, all dated 1891.

Dates: 1891

Milward Adams photograph collection [OFFSITE]

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Adams
Abstract

STORED OFFSITE – Contact reference@newberry.org for access. Collection of portraits of statesmen, orators, lecturers, musicians, singers, composers, and conductors collected by and autographed to Milward Adams, manager of Chicago's Auditorium Theater from 1889 to 1910.

Dates: approximately 1890-1910

Mitchell Dawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawson
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of lawyer and poet Mitchell Dawson, and also papers, photographs and genealogical information of the Dawson, Manierre and Hahn families.

Dates: 1810-1988

Paula Gerard Renison Dance Sketches

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-RenisonP
Abstract

Six pencil sketches of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers drawn by artist Paula Gerard Renison during rehearsals and performances at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, 1938-1939.

Dates: 1938-1939

Ruth Levy dance photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-LevyR
Abstract Ruth Levy, who performed as a dancer with the Pavley/Oukrainsky Junior Ballet, received a master’s degree in photography at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. This collection includes her slides, negatives, proof sheets, and prints of dancers in several companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Joffrey Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Ruth Page Chicago Ballet among others. Some of these photographs...
Dates: 1928-1976; Majority of material found within 1970-1973

Thomas Conolly papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conolly
Abstract

Material collected by Thomas Conolly, decorative plasterer and handyman for fifty-two years at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, which consists mainly of autographs and autographed historical letters. Also, bookplates, clippings, miscellaneous memorabilia, a few items relating to the Chicago Civic Opera Company and the Auditorium Theater, several photographs and pictures, and a group of personal letters to Conolly.

Dates: 1800-1944

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 8
Photographs -- 1851-1900 4
Photographs -- 1901-1950 4
Correspondence 2
Correspondence -- 1851-1900 2
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Correspondence -- 1901-1950 2
Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Photographs -- 1951-2000 2
Architects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography 1
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art, American -- 20th century 1
Arts -- Management -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Arts -- Press coverage 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Autographs (manuscripts) 1
Ballet companies -- Photographs 1
Ballet dancers 1
Ballet in art 1
Black-and-white slides 1
Bookplates 1
Buildings -- Salvaging -- Middle West 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Collective settlements -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Color slides 1
Composers -- United States -- 19th century 1
Composition (Music) 1
Conductors (Music) -- Portraits 1
Conservatories of music -- History -- 19th century 1
Contact sheets 1
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Cosmetics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Dance companies -- United States 1
Dance photography 1
Dancers in art 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Fourierism -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Middle West 1
Imposters and imposture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Letterpress copybooks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Lost architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Music -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Music critics -- 19th century 1
Music teachers -- 19th century 1
Musicians -- Portraits 1
Negatives (photographs) 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews 1
Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Opera companies -- Photographs 1
Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Photograph albums 1
Poems -- 1901-1950 1
Poets, American -- 19th century 1
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Portraits 1
Printing plates -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Programs 1
Publicizing 1
Scrapbooks 1
Scrapbooks -- 1851-1900 1
Signatures (names) -- 1851-1900 1
Signatures (names) -- 1901-1950 1
Singers -- Portraits 1
Sketches -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Souvenir programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Souvenir programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Theater programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Theater programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Theaters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Utopian socialism -- Illinois -- Sangamon County 1
Women artists 1
Women journalists -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Women periodical editors 1
Women photographers 1
Women poets -- 19th century 1
Women singers -- Portraits 1
Women travelers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Military intelligence -- United States 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
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