Morrison, Helen Balfour, 1900-1984
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1900 - 1984
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Balfour Morrison papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morrison
Abstract
Personal and professional papers of American photographer and artist Helen Balfour Morrison. Born in Evanston, Illinois in 1900, Morrison undertook several artistic photography projects that were exhibited throughout the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Her longtime collaboration with dancer Sybil Shearer involved further artistic endeavors through stage lighting designs and filmmaking.
Dates:
1906-2001; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1984
Helen Balfour Morrison photographs of Kentucky African American communities
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morrison-KY
Abstract
Prints and negatives by Helen Balfour Morrison from her multiple trips to African American communities in Kentucky during the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1935-1946
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- Kentucky 1
- African Americans -- Pictorial works 1
- Bluegrass Region (Ky.) 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Correspondence 1
- Fayette County (Ky.) 1
- Kentucky -- Pictorial works 1
- Lexington (Ky.) 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Negatives (photographs) 1
- Notebooks 1
- Photographs 1
- Scott County (Ky.) 1
- Sugar Hill (Ky.) 1
- Women photographers -- Illinois 1
- Woodford County (Ky.) 1
- Zion Hill (Ky.) 1 + ∧ less
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