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Stella Simon photographs

Title
Stella Simon photographs, 1930-1935 and undated
Author
Simon, Stella F., 1878-1973

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Box 1Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 1963-003 Box 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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Box 3Still imageSupervised use *T-Vim 1963-003 Box 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Description
3 boxes (circa 127 photoprints) : silver gelatin, black and white; 40 x 50 cm or smaller.
Summary
Collection is primarily comprised of portraits of New York theatre personalities, including Rose Bogdanoff "in the Chinese coat (1932)," Remo Bufano, Sterling Holloway, Mina Hager in Pierrot lunaire (1933), Liz Hull (Elizabeth Hull), Hall Johnson, Isamu Noguchi, Paul Robeson, Roger Stearns, Betty Starbuck, Thelma Tipson in The Garrick gaieties (1930), Waldine Williams as Reba in Run, little chillun' (1933), and Cora Witherspoon; there are also photoprints of marionettes designed by Robert Edmond Jones and constructed by Remo Bufano for the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravnisky (1931), as well as some unidentified.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Gelatin silver prints.
  • Photographic prints.
Source (note)
  • Stella F. Simon, 1963.
Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
  • Additional unmounted photographs by Simon may be found in the *T-Pho files held in the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Contents
Box 1: Folder 1. Paul Althouse; Ethel Barrymore -- Folder 2. Rose Bogdanoff -- Folder 3. Remo Bufano -- Folder 4. Chorus -- Folder 5. Die Glückliche Hand -- Folder 6. Mina Hager -- Folder 7. Sterling Holloway; Liz Hull -- Folder 8. Hall Johnson, -- Folder 9. Robert Edmond Jones; Margaret Matzenauer -- Box 2: Folder 1. Isamu Noguchi -- Folders 2-5. Oedipus Rex marionettes -- Folder 6. Paul Robeson -- Folder 7. Louis M. Simon -- Folder 8. Lee Simonson -- Box 3: Folder 1. Betty Starbuck; Roger Stearns -- Folder 2. Leopold Stokowski; Thelma Tipson -- Folder 3. Waldine Williams; Cora Witherspoon -- Folder 4-6. Unidentified.
Call Number
*T-Vim 1963-003
OCLC
967284797
Author
Simon, Stella F., 1878-1973, photographer.
Title
Stella Simon photographs, 1930-1935 and undated
Type of Content
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
sheet
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional unmounted photographs by Simon may be found in the *T-Pho files held in the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Biography
Photographer Stella Furchgott Simon was born in Charleston, South Carolina and moved to Colorado at age eight. She graduated from East Denver High School, marrying businessman Adolphe Simon in 1890. After his death in 1917, Simon moved to New York City where she raised their three sons. She studied at Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography and also studied filmmaking in Germany, making a feminist avant-garde film, Hands (1932). Simon had a photography studio in New York City from approximately 1932 to the 1940s. She died in 1973.
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Research Call Number
*T-Vim 1963-003
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