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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 47", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19694", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1905-1977", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1905/1977"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Irma Duncan papers"}
- 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>"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Irma Duncan papers, *MGZMD 47. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Duncan, Irma", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Irma Duncan was born Irma Dorette Henriette Ehrich-Grimme on February 26, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein near Hamburg. Becoming a pupil of Isadora Duncan in January 1905 at her Grunewald school near Berlin, her name was legally changed to Irma Duncan in 1917. Along with Isadora's five other original pupils, she became an adopted daughter.</p> <p>In 1918 these six formed an independent group known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers. Irma's debut as such occurred at Carnegie Hall on June 27 of that year.</p> <p>In 1921 she accompanied Isadora to Russia to found, at the government's invitation, a school of dance. Irma served as a teacher in Moscow for seven years making her solo debut there on April 29, 1923. After Isadora's death in 1927 until 1930, she directed the Moscow school. She toured with her students to Europe and to the United States (the latter during the 1928-1929 and 1929-1930 seasons). When her group, known as the Isadora Duncan Dancers of Moscow, were forced to return to Russia, Irma chose to remain in the United States.</p> <p>Duncan became a U.S. citizen in 1935. She married Sherman S. Rogers, a New York attorney, on September 19, 1935. She authored several books on Isadora Duncan and her technique.</p> <p>Irma Duncan Rogers died on September 20, 1977.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The <span class=\"persname\">Irma Duncan</span> papers document her professional and personal life from 1905 to 1977.</p> <p>The entire collection is testimony to <span class=\"persname\">Irma Duncan's</span> lifelong dedication to the theories, ideals, and life of <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span>.</p> <p>Material is in English with some German, Russian, and French.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Irma Duncan papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19694#c353456'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1905-1977</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The weight of importance and quantity in this collection lies in the correspondence series, 1905-1977 (1326 items). It traces <span class=\"persname\">Irma's</span> years from first joining <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> as a young student in 1905, to her years as a mature artist with and after <span class=\"persname\">Isadora</span> until her death in 1977. The early correspondence includes letters with her own mother as well as three letters (holographs) from <span class=\"persname\">Isadora</span> to <span class=\"persname\">Irma</span>, and another to her adopted daughters. There are extensive runs of letters later from, and in some cases to, the other adopted daughters after <span class=\"persname\">Isadora's</span> death. These include <span class=\"persname\">Erika</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Anna</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lisa</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Theresa</span>. Other noteworthy professional correspondents are <span class=\"persname\">E. Gordon Craig</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Paris Singer</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Augustin Duncan</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Edward Steichen</span>. A selected index of professional correspondence is included in the register, as all letters are arranged chronologically.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19694#c353526'>II. Writings and Memorabilia</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The writings and memorabilia series is divided into three sub-series: those of <span class=\"persname\">Irma</span> (67 items), <span class=\"persname\">Isadora</span> (9 items), and other authors (28 items). Of note in the first are <span class=\"persname\">Irma's</span> diaries of 1921, the year she accompanied <span class=\"persname\">Isadora</span> to <span class=\"persname\">Moscow</span>, and her notebook “Guide Through the <span class=\"persname\">Duncan</span> System of Dancing.” Within <span class=\"persname\">Isadora's</span> writings are two autobiographical holographs on her activities in 1904 and 1905, as well as her own sketch of the Moscow school uniforms. The last of the sub-series reflects the great impact <span class=\"persname\">Isadora</span> had on many people who were then compelled to express it in articles and poems.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19694#c353577'>III. Miscellaneous (unknown authors, artists)</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Irma Duncan.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>½ box clippings and programs - Location: to be processed</li> <li>3 boxes sheet music - Location: to basement</li> <li>photographs and negatives: <ul> <li>2 E. Steichen photographs given to P. Sinclair 12/15/86 to be processed - Location: to *MGZEC files</li> <li>6 negatives for Irma Duncan's book - Location: to be processed</li> <li>7 negatives of Isadora in Russia in 1921 taken by Irma Duncan - Location: to be processed</li> <li>2 boxes photographs and photographic scrapbooks - Location: to be processed</li></ul></li></ul>"}
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1905
- date_inclusive_end
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1977
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Documents the professional and personal life of Irma Duncan</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>The largest series correspondence (1326 items), contains letters primarily to Irma Duncan including three by Isadora Duncan to her and one to all of her adopted daughters. Other correspondents include Irma Duncan's mother, the other adopted Duncan daughters (Anna, Theresa, Erika, and Lisa), E. Gordon Craig, Paris Singer, Augustin Duncan, and Edward Steichen. A selected index of professional correspondence within the chronological series is provided in the register</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>The second series of writings and memorabilia (104 items) includes Irma Duncan's diaries of 1921, her notebook \"Guide through the Duncan system of dancing,\" two autobiographical holograph items by Isadora Duncan on her activities in 1904 and 1905, Isadora Duncan's own sketch of the Moscow school uniform, and a copy of her baptismal certificate</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>A series of miscellaneous items (28 items) includes unidentified notes and drawings</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- keydate
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1905
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Diane Coburn Brüning.</p>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>" The <span class=\"persname\">Irma Duncan</span> papers document her professional and personal life from 1905 to 1977.", "generated"=>true}
- extent_statement
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1458 items in 185 folders and two boxes
- date_start
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1905
- date_end
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1977