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Loie Fuller notebooks and letters
- Title
- Loie Fuller notebooks and letters, 1907-1911.
- Author
- Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | By appointment only | (S) *MGZMD-Res. 121 Box 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | By appointment only | (S) *MGZMD-Res. 121 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | (S) *MGZMD 121 Box 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Russell, Henry, 1871-1937.
- Description
- 3 boxes (.5 lin. ft.)
- Summary
- Chiefly comprised of two notebooks (ms., ink). The first is entitled "Lecture on radium" by Loie Fuller (59 leaves); also includes a draft letter to a friend (20 p. at end of vol.), signed and dated Jan. 24, 1911, including mention of the success of Anna Pavlova and Vaslav Nijinsky in Paris. The second contains a draft of the lecture on radium (25 leaves) and extensive notes (25 leaves) about visiting Thomas Edison in his laboratory, light, phosphorescence, radium, Madame Curie's discovery of radioactive matter, stage lighting, the work of the English scientist William Crookes, barefoot dancing, the problem of deformed feet, etc., 1911.
- Box 3 includes a corrected typescript of Fuller's autobiography, "Fifteen years of my life" (202 leaves); three letters, one of them from Fuller to a friend (6 p.), written on the verso of a letter from impresario Henry Russell (1909), in which she details problems with Russell and the Boston Opera Company; and other associated material including three photographic postcards of Fuller and a holograph essay entitled "Light" (6 leaves), all recovered from the Rowntree Theatre, York, ca. 1948.
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
- Series Statement
- Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photographic postcards.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Excerpts (the second notebook) also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.
- Source (note)
- W & F C Bonham, auction 12/5/95, cat. item 53
- Biography (note)
- American dancer and choreographer.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- (S) *MGZMD 121
- OCLC
- NYPY99-A0
- Author
- Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928.
- Title
- Loie Fuller notebooks and letters, 1907-1911.
- Series
- Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
- Additional Formats
- Excerpts (the second notebook) also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.
- Biography
- American dancer and choreographer.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Manuscripts
- Local Subject
- Manuscripts (Letters)
- Added Author
- Russell, Henry, 1871-1937.
- Research Call Number
- (S) *MGZMD 121