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Scrapbooks clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia
- Title
- Scrapbooks [microform] : clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia / [compiled by] Janet Collins.
- Author
- Collins, Janet, 1917-2003.
- Publication
- 1947-76.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Vol. 5 (1955-76) | Text | Supervised use | (S) *MGZEB 79-299 Vol. 5 (1955-76) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Vol. 4 (1952-1954) | Text | Supervised use | (S) *MGZEB 79-299 Vol. 4 (1952-1954) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Vol. 3 (1952-53) | Text | Supervised use | (S) *MGZEB 79-299 Vol. 3 (1952-53) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Vol. 2 (1950-51) | Text | Supervised use | (S) *MGZEB 79-299 Vol. 2 (1950-51) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Vol. 1 (1947-1949) | Text | Supervised use | (S) *MGZEB 79-299 Vol. 1 (1947-1949) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Supervised use | *ZBD-491 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Description
- 5 v. : ill.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Janet Collins.
- Subjects
- Note
- Target title. Original volumes 37 x 48 cm. Documentation on her career compiled by Janet Collins, black American dancer and teacher.
- Reproduction (note)
- Microfilm.
- Contents
- CONTENTS. - v. 1 (1947-49. Newspaper clippings, reviews, programs on her first solo concerts in Los Angeles and her New York debut at the YM-YWHA, 1949. Original photographs of her Negro spirituals, Rondo from Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Apre le Mardi Gras, Protest, and Juba) - v. 2 (1950-51. Clippings, reviews, and photographs. Appearances as principal dancer in the Cole Porter musical, Out of this world, for which she received the Donaldson Award, 1950-51; Mademoiselle Merit Award, 1950; television and radio appearances) - v. 3 (1952-53. Reviews, programs, and photographs on her Metropolitan Opera Ballet appearances as prima ballerina and first regular black company member in Aïda, Carmen, La Gioconda, and Samson et Dalila) - v. 4 (1952-54. Additional material on Metropolitan Opera productions of Aïda and La Gioconda; first solo concert tour, 1952; spring concert tour of U.S. and Canada, 1953, and 1954 tour) - v. 5 (1955-76. Photographic portraits of Miss Collins by Marcus Blechman. Various awards and honors: certificates, clippings, letters, medals and pins, including Mademoiselle Merit Award medal, Donaldson Award pendant, and New York Foundling Hospital Award pin. Notes on the Negro spiritual by Hall Johnson; articles about teaching activities at St. Joseph's School for the Deaf, Marymount Manhattan College, and Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; clippings on the San Francisco Opera production of Verdi's
- Nabucco, with choreography by Miss Collins, 1970; her ballet Genesis, including letters, in French, from Heitor Villa-Lobos, who composed the commissioned ballet score.
- Call Number
- *ZBD-491
- OCLC
- NYPY797069943-B
- Author
- Collins, Janet, 1917-2003.
- Title
- Scrapbooks [microform] : clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia / [compiled by] Janet Collins.
- Imprint
- 1947-76.
- Reproduction
- Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-28380)
- Local Note
- Originals shelved in *MGZEB 79-299. Former classmark: *MGZRS 79-299.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Scrapbooks.Dancers -- Scrapbooks.
- Research Call Number
- *ZBD-491 Microfilm. 1 reel; 35 mm.(S) *MGZEB 79-299