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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 28", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19678", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1925-1958", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1925/1958"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Doris Humphrey papers"}
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Correspondence and writing, 48 letters, including 33 items of correspondence between <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> and <span class=\"persname\">José Limón</span> and/or <span class=\"persname\">Pauline Lawrence</span>; 15 addresses, essays, lectures by <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span>; 8 items of choreographic and production notes; 23 photographs; and 23 postcards from <span class=\"persname\">Denishawn Oriental</span> tour with notes by <span class=\"persname\">Humphrey</span>."}
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{"value"=>"Doris Humphrey papers, *MGZMD 28. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958", "type"=>"persname"}
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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=\"title\">Valse Caprice, Bourée, Soaring,</span>and <span class=\"title\">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=\"title\">Color Harmony, Air on a G String,</span>and <span class=\"title\">Dance of the Chosen</span>(later called <span class=\"title\">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=\"title\">New Dance, Theatre Piece,</span>and <span class=\"title\">With my Red Fires, Passacaglia in C Minor, El Salon Mexico,</span>and <span class=\"title\">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=\"title\">Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Day on Earth, Deep Rhythm, Ruins and Visions,</span>and <span class=\"title\">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=\"title\">The Art of Making Dances</span>(published 1959) and <span class=\"title\">New Dance</span>(published in <span class=\"title\">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>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence and writing, 48 letters, including 33 items of correspondence between <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span> and <span class=\"persname\">José Limón</span> and/or <span class=\"persname\">Pauline Lawrence</span>; 15 addresses, essays, lectures by <span class=\"persname\">Doris Humphrey</span>; 8 items of choreographic and production notes; 23 photographs; and 23 postcards from <span class=\"persname\">Denishawn Oriental</span> tour with notes by <span class=\"persname\">Humphrey</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Doris Humphrey papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19678#c350726'>I. Humphrey/Lawrence/Limón Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19678#c350739'>II. Miscellaneous Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19678#c350752'>III. Addresses, Essays, Lectures by Doris Humphrey</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19678#c350769'>IV. Miscellaneous Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19678#c350784'>V. Miscellaneous</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>I. Humphrey/Lawrence/Limon correspondence</li> <li>II. Miscellaneous correspondence</li> <li>III. Addresses, essays, lectures by Doris Humphrey</li> <li>IV. Miscellaneous writing</li> <li>V. Miscellaneous, including photographs, postcards, and program notes</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Charles Humphrey Woodford. Received: 1982?</p>"}
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1925
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1958
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Forty-eight letters including 33 items of correspondence between Doris Humphrey and José Limón and/or Pauline Lawrence; 15 addresses, essays, lectures by Doris Humphrey; 8 items of choreographic and production notes; 23 photographs; and 23 postcards from Denishawn Oriental tour with notes by Humphrey</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
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1925
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by [Unknown].</p>"}
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.5 linear feet (55 folders in 1 box)
- date_start
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1925
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1958