Moving images
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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
Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Relocation Records
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-BIA Relocation
Abstract
Photographs, promotional brochures, statistics, clippings, etc., dating mainly from 1956 to 1958, from album / notebooks compiled by Bureau of Indian Affairs agencies and relocation program field offices at reservations and schools (Cheyenne River, Fort Peck, Great Lakes, Intermountain School, Menominee, New Mexico Pueblos, Pierre, Sisseton including Flandreau, Turtle Mountain, Winnebago), and in cities (Chicago, St. Louis).
Dates:
1936-1975; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1958
Chicago National Association of Dance Masters Records
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-CNADM
Abstract
The Chicago National Association of Dance Masters (CNADM) was founded in 1912 and serves as a resource of continuing education for dance teachers and their students. Records include workshop reports, dance notes, and audiovisual recordings of CNADM workshops.
Dates:
1925-ongoing
Dance For Life records
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Dance For Life
Abstract
Project notebooks, publicity, promotional materials, and audiovisual footage from Dance For Life, a yearly dance event organized by Chicago Dancers United. According to their website, " Dance for Life Chicago is the annual benefit dance concert presenting and showcasing the city’s unique diversity of talent, dance traditions and styles by bringing together the incredibly talented, world-renowned professional dancers of Chicago for one night on the same stage. The dance community unites...
Dates:
1992-2016
Ernest A. Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Griffin Family
Abstract
Papers of family historian Ernest A. Griffin, proprietor of the Griffin Funeral Home on Chicago's south side, including family documents, photographs, audio/visual material, genealogical notes, and materials relating to the history of Camp Douglas (on which the funeral home stood) and Charles H. Griffin who served in a colored regiment during the Civil War. Also includes documentation of the funerals of prominent African Americans.
Dates:
1862-2007; Majority of material found within 1910-1995
M. W. Newman Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Newman
Abstract
Works, correspondence, personal materials, and memorabilia of Chicago newspaper editor, reporter, and critic M. W. Newman.
Dates:
1917-2002
MoMing Dance and Arts Center records
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-MoMing
Abstract
MoMing was a center in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood for dance training and avant-garde performance as well as an art gallery. It was formed in 1974 by Jackie Radis, Jim Self, Susan Kimmelman, Eric Trules, Kasia Mintch, Tem Horowitz, and Sally Banes. Along with local artists, it hosted many guest dancers and artists of renown, including Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, Mark Morris, and Meredith Monk. It officially dissolved in 1991.
Dates:
1968-1991; Majority of material found within 1974-1990
Ruth Page Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Page-Foundation
Abstract
Records of the Ruth Page Foundation, a cultural non-profit organization committed to the education, promotion, and presentation of dance in Chicago. Founded by Ruth Page in 1970, the Foundation continues to support a number of dance initiatives. Includes administrative, personnel, financial, and publicity materials for both the Foundation and the Ruth Page School of Dance.
Dates:
1989-2013
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
Wacker family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wacker
Abstract
Papers of Chicago Plan Commission head, Charles H. Wacker, his immediate family, and the family of his daughter, Rosalie Wacker Zimmerman. Includes correspondence, photographs, artifacts, keepsakes, films, and scrapbooks spanning five generations.
Dates:
1812-2002; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970