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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 549 items in 102 folders", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 25", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19675", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1898-1941", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1898/1941"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Doris Humphrey letters"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The vast majority of the collection consists of letters written to <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> from relatives, friends, and professional associates. As such, the correspondent or correspondents are simply listed alphabetically within each year in the folder list. Also included are a few letters written by <span class=\"persname\">Miss Humphrey</span>; these letters are integrated with the ones that she received and can be identified by the notation “DH/_____.” Any other letters (i.e., ones neither written to nor by <span class=\"persname\">Miss Humphrey</span>) follow the main list of correspondents within each year. An alphabetical list of correspondents of letters with no date (n.d.) follows the year 1941. Miscellany includes Denishawn weekly schedules for <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> from July 9-August 18, 1917; a contract between <span class=\"persname\">Ruth St. Denis</span> & <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Pauline Lawrence</span>, 1923; and a stock certificate and brochure for the Dance Repertory Theatre, 1929."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Doris Humphrey letters, *MGZMD 25. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Doris Humphrey, born October 17, 1895 in Oak Park, Illinois, was one of the most important personalities in the American modern dance movement during the first half of the 20th century. Her initial dance training was at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. Graduating in 1913, she organized her own dancing school in Oak Park and the surrounding communities. In 1917, she travelled to Los Angeles to enroll at Denishawn and was accepted into the company. At Denishawn she met and worked with not only Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, but also Pauline Lawrence and Charles Weidman. In 1920 she choreographed four works, <span class=\"emph\">Valse Caprice, Bourée, Soaring,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">Sonata Pathétique</span>(the latter two choreographed with Ruth St. Denis). With Weidman she formed a performing group in 1928, for which she created <span class=\"emph\">Color Harmony, Air on a G String,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">Dance of the Chosen</span>(later called <span class=\"emph\">The Shakers).</span>On a boat trip to the West Indies, she met Charles Francis Woodford. They married in 1932 and their son, Charles Humphrey Woodford was born in 1933. In 1934, she joined the faculty of the Bennington School of the Dance, Bennington College in Vermont. Her choreographies from this period include the trilogy <span class=\"emph\">New Dance, Theatre Piece,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">With my Red Fires, Passacaglia in C Minor, El Salon Mexico,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">Inquest.</span>In 1940, the Humphrey-Weidman Studio Theatre opened in New York City. Owing to a hip ailment, she was forced to retire as a dancer in 1944 but continued as a teacher and choreographer. As artistic director of the José Limón Company, she created <span class=\"emph\">Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Day on Earth, Deep Rhythm, Ruins and Visions,</span>and <span class=\"emph\">Theatre Piece No. 2.</span>In 1948, she joined the faculty of Connecticut College School of the Dance, New London, Connecticut. She wrote <span class=\"emph\">The Art of Making Dances</span>(published 1959) and <span class=\"emph\">New Dance</span>(published in <span class=\"emph\">Dance Perspectives</span>25). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her book on choreography and the Dance Magazine Award in 1958. That same year she began writing her reminiscences but they remained unfinished at her death December 29, 1959, in New York City.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The vast majority of the collection consists of letters written to <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> from relatives, friends, and professional associates. As such, the correspondent or correspondents are simply listed alphabetically within each year in the folder list. Also included are a few letters written by <span class=\"persname\">Miss Humphrey</span>; these letters are integrated with the ones that she received and can be identified by the notation “DH/_____.” Any other letters (i.e., ones neither written to nor by <span class=\"persname\">Miss Humphrey</span>) follow the main list of correspondents within each year. An alphabetical list of correspondents of letters with no date (n.d.) follows the year 1941. Miscellany includes Denishawn weekly schedules for <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> from July 9-August 18, 1917; a contract between <span class=\"persname\">Ruth St. Denis</span> & <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Pauline Lawrence</span>, 1923; and a stock certificate and brochure for the Dance Repertory Theatre, 1929.|||This collection should be used in conjunction with the larger, more comprehensive <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> Collection [*MGZMC-Res. 3]. For a biography and list of dances choreographed by <span class=\"persname\">Miss Humphrey</span>, consult “The <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> Collection: An Introduction and Guide” by <span class=\"persname\">Andrew Mark Wentink</span> in <span class=\"emph\">The Bulletin of The New York Public Library,</span>Volume 77, Autumn 1973, No. 1, pp. 80-142.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Doris Humphrey letters are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19675#c349811'>I. Letters</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1898-1941 & n.d.</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19675#c350130'>II. Miscellany</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>I. Letters</li> <li>II. Miscellany</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchase, through a gift of Christena L. Schlundt. Al Pischl. Received: 1966.</p>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1898
- date_inclusive_end
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1941
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Consists largely of letters written to Doris Humphrey. Correspondents include her parents, Julia E. and Horace B. Humphrey; her grandparents; her aunts and uncles; Mary Wood Hinman; Pauline Lawrence; Ruth St. Denis; Ted Shawn; Charles Weidman; Ian M. Wolfe; and her husband, Charles Francis Woodford</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Miscellany includes Denishawn weekly schedules for Doris Humphrey from July 9-August 18, 1917; a contract between Ruth St. Denis & Ted Shawn and Pauline Lawrence, 1923; and a stock certificate and brochure for the Dance Repertory Theatre, 1929</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- keydate
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1898
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Nancy M. Shawcross.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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ca. 549 items in 102 folders
- date_start
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1898
- date_end
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1941