Fredrika Tuttle Blair research materials

id
9130
origination
Blair, Fredrika Tuttle
date statement
bulk 1960s-1980s
key date
1960
identifier (local_mss)
18430
org unit
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
call number
*MGZMD 322
b-number
b20009374
total components
30
total series
0
max depth
2
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2014-01-06 17:37:11 UTC
updated
2026-06-25 15:07:55 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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unitid
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 322", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18430", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1960s-1980s", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1960/1989"}
{"value"=>"1960s", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1960/1969"}
date_inclusive_start
1960
date_inclusive_end
1989
keydate
1960
unittitle
{"value"=>"Fredrika Tuttle Blair research materials"}
physdesc
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.93 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"5 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository
{"id"=>"DAN", "value"=>"Jerome Robbins Dance Division"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Fredrika Blair Hastings (formerly Fredrika Tuttle Blair),1918-1990, published the biography Isadora, Portrait of the Artist as a Woman (McGraw-Hill, 1986). The biography was the culmination of thirty years of research on Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) the American dancer. The Fredrika Tuttle Blair research materials hold Blair's research files on Isadora Duncan, mostly from the 1960s, in notebooks, original manuscripts, research notes, and related materials. The collection languages are French and English."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"Fredrika Tuttle Blair research materials, *MGZMD 322. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
origination
{"value"=>"Blair, Fredrika Tuttle", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Fredrika Blair Hastings (formerly Fredrika Tuttle Blair), 1918-1990, was the author of the biographyon Isadora Duncan \"Isadora, Portrait of the Artist as a Woman\" (McGraw-Hill, 1986). Blair began her research project on Isadora Duncan during the 1950s. This project lasted thirty years culminating in the publication of her book. Blair was a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>The Fredrika Tuttle Blair research materials, dated 1960s to 1980s, hold the research files of Fredrika Tuttle Blair's biography on Isadora Duncan entitled \"Isadora, Portrait of the Artist as a Woman\" (McGraw-Hill, 1986). The collection consists of notebooks, original manuscripts, research notes, and related material.</p> <p>Blair wrote extensively in the bound notebooks and placed handwritten slips of paper between the pages. Some of the folders of draft materials and notes are housed with mailing envelopes. These mailing envelopes contain Blair’s comments about the contents of the folders. It is critical that these envelopes remain housed with the manuscripts because the envelopes contain information pertinent to that particular manuscript. The collection does not hold a complete manuscript draft. There are several early drafts of book chapters dated between 1960s – 1970s. During Blair's research, she examined the research of others on Duncan. There is a translation of the article “Pages from the Past” by Ilya Shneider. There is no correspondence with the exception of two short notes from friends on personal matters and information about Duncan. The remaining material is printed matter. The collection languages are French and English.</p>"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged into two groups. One group is volumes and the second group is manuscripts in folders. The volumes are notebooks and loose leaf binders. The volumes have many handwritten notes between the pages. Some of the volumes are sequentially numbered with some irregularity in numbering. The loose manuscripts are housed in folders and envelopes. The folders do not have any identifying information as to content of these folders. Similar to the notebooks with the hand-annotated notes, some mailing envelopes with the loose manuscripts have hand written notes.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Frederika Blair, 1986, 1987.</p>"}
processinfo
{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Valerie Wingfield</span>, <span class=\"date\">2013</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>The collection was rehoused in acid free folders and containers. The original order was maintained.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Dance Division at dance@nypl.org</p>"}
extent_statement
1.93 linear feet (5 boxes)
date_start
1960
date_end
1989
date_bulk_start
1960
date_bulk_end
1989

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