Scope and arrangement
The Angna Enters photographs, dating from the 1920s to 1950s, detail primarily her mime characters, props, costumes, and sets created for the Theater of Angna Enters through proof prints, glass plate negatives, and matted and mounted prints. American photographer Doris Ulmann created the bulk of the photographs and signed the matted prints.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or character.
Most of the collection consists of proof prints and glass negatives, dating from the 1920s to the 1930s, depicting Enters as her various dance mime characters posing in costume in a studio or the woods. Annotations identify a few pantomime characters; however, most are unknown. Some photographs show Enters' appropriation of the dress, music, and movements of Japanese, French, German, and Spanish cultures. Aside from the costumed character images, there are photographs of Enters' hands performing different gestures and Enters posing with another unidentified artist. Ulmann created the proof prints and glass negatives.
The matted and mounted prints, dating from the 1920s to the 1950s, also portray Enters in costume as her dance mime characters. Most of the matted prints were created by Ulmann. Like the glass negatives and proof prints, Ulmann's matted prints date from the 1920s to the 1930s and show Enters as her costumed characters in nature or a studio.
The rest of the matted prints and all of the mounted prints were created by Sanford H. Roth, F. J. Monaco, Pollard Crowther, Ben Pinchot, László Willinger, Clarence Bull, Francis Bruguière, and unknown photographers. There are inscriptions or typed information identifying the character, piece, or print owner on the backside of some mounted photographs. These photographs date from the 1920s to the 1950s and portray Enters performing on stage or posing in a studio.