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Creator:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Type:

Interviews

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-03-04T18:09:14.000Z

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Music  Search this

Topic:

Cultural property  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianfolkways

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Creator:

National Portrait Gallery  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2014-06-27T17:22:46.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Portraits  Search this

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

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NatlPortraitGallery

EDAN-URL:

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Artist:

CYJO (Cindy Hwang-Archambault), born 13 Jun 1974  Search this

Sitter:

Dana Tai Soon Burgess, born 26 Feb 1968  Search this

Medium:

Inkjet print

Dimensions:

Image: 41.9 × 27.9 cm (16 1/2 × 11")

Sheet: 48.3 × 32.9 cm (19 × 12 15/16")

Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22")

Type:

Photograph

Date:

December 16, 2007 (printed April 1, 2014)

Topic:

Interior  Search this

Costume\Jewelry\Watch  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Belt  Search this

Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Male  Search this

Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery; Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of Ms. Gie Kim and Mr. Rich Chang

Object number:

C/NPG.2015.30

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© 2007 CYJO

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm43f60afdf-5387-4584-a036-5bd3df18254c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_C_NPG.2015.30

Artist:

CYJO (Cindy Hwang-Archambault), born 13 Jun 1974  Search this

Sitter:

Dana Tai Soon Burgess, born 26 Feb 1968  Search this

Medium:

Digital pigment print

Dimensions:

Sheet: 41.9 x 27.9cm (16 1/2 x 11")

Mount: 41.9 x 27.9cm (16 1/2 x 11")

Type:

Photograph

Date:

December 16, 2007

Topic:

Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Male  Search this

Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: CYJO (Cindy Hwang-Archambault)

Object number:

EXH.AA.102

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© CYJO

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Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ebd302f1-6ce6-41b0-9d4a-54e257e77bed

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_EXH.AA.102

Creator:

Gross, Chaim, 1904-1991  Search this

Names:

Blume, Peter, 1906-1992  Search this

Grooms, Mimi Gross  Search this

Newman, Arnold, 1918-2006  Search this

Robbins, Warren M.  Search this

Soyer, Raphael, 1899-1987  Search this

Extent:

21.1 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sketchbooks

Video recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Date:

1920-2004

Summary:

The papers of New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross measure 21.1 linear feet and date from 1920-2004. The collection provides comprehensive documentation of Gross's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with family, artists, writers, galleries, museums, educational institutions, and religious and philanthropic organizations, writings, personal business records, extensive printed and published material including motion picture film and video recordings of four documentaries, one hundred and fifteen sketchbooks spanning the bulk of Gross's career, and photographs of Gross, his family, many friends and colleagues from the art world, his studio, personal art collection, and works of art. An unprocessed addition of three sketchbooks was donated in 2020.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross measure 21.1 linear feet and date from 1920-2004. The collection provides comprehensive documentation of Gross's career through biographical material, personal and professional correspondence with family, artists, writers, galleries, museums, educational institutions, and religious and philanthropic organizations, writings, personal business records, extensive printed and published material including motion picture film and video recordings of four documentaries, one hundred and fifteen sketchbooks spanning the bulk of Gross's career, and photographs of Gross, his family, many friends and colleagues from the art world, his studio, personal art collection, and works of art.

Biographical material includes records collated to document awards and honors given to Gross documenting the recognition he received for his lifelong achievements in the last two decades of his career, including from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. The series also includes Gross's birth certificate printed in 1920, some biographical notes and resumes prior to the 1970s, documentation of Gross's business and personal contacts through addresses and business cards, and a motion picture film of a documentary about Gross, Art and the Model, made in 1976 by Thea Bay and edited by Bob Worth.

Personal and professional correspondence constitutes the largest series in the collection and documents all aspects of Gross's prolific career including: personal letters from friends and family such as daughter Mimi Gross and Red Grooms; professional correspondence with galleries, museums, and other art institutions including the Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Whitney Museum of American Art; correspondence documenting commissions, loans, and sales of Gross's artwork through galleries including Forum Gallery; and correspondence with synagogues including International Synagogue, Temple Sharaay Tefila, and Temple Sinai, Pittsburgh, and multiple other Jewish organizations such as Hadassah and State of Israel Bonds. Correspondence also documents publications by and about Gross including letters from Abe Lerner, the Jewish Publication Society of America, Chaim Potok, and Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Gross's work as a teacher including at the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research; and the significance of Gross's personal collection of African art through correspondence with Warren M. Robbins, the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, and others. Gross's work for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and Treasury Relief Project, as well as for the 1939 World's Fair, is also documented in this series and includes contracts and correspondence with Ed Rowan.

Correspondence includes many letters from artist friends and colleagues including Isabel Bishop, Peter Blume, Eliot Elisofon, Eugenie Gershoy, Milton Hebald, Lewis Jacobs, Karl Knaths, Arnold Newman, Elias Newman, Saul Rosen, Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Nicholas Sperakis, William and Marguerite Zorach, and many others. Writers and scholars who corresponded with Gross include Samuel French Morse, Jack C. Rich, Shea Tenenbaum, Roberta Tarbell, and others.

Writings primarily consist of a partial draft of Gross's book The Technique of Wood Sculpture but also include a copy of his first published article in 1938 in the American Federation of Arts Magazine of Art, and a few short writings by Gross on other artists. Writings by others include a memoir of Gross's boyhood written by his brother, poet Naftoli Gross.

Gross's personal business records are scattered, as many transactional records are included with his correspondence. They do include lists of Gross's artwork and his personal art collection, two agreements for rights to use his work, appraisals of twelve of his works of art, and receipts of consignments, sales, loans, and gifts of artwork.

Printed material is a comprehensive and substantial record of Gross's exhibitions, and his prolific engagement in the arts and his community throughout his long career. This series includes announcements and catalogs for many of his exhibitions, brochures and programs for art organizations for which he exhibited, taught, donated to, or was otherwise represented in, notably the Educational Alliance, the New School for Social Research, the Sculptors Guild, Inc., and numerous other private and public museums, galleries, and institutions. Also found is circa one linear foot of clippings about Gross that span his career from newspapers, magazines, and journals, including some Hebrew and Yiddish publications. The series also houses video recordings of the documentaries Tree Trunk to Head and A Sculptor Speaks, and an NBC broadcast of an interview with Gross entitled The Two Chaims, as the motion picture film, A Sculptor Speaks.

Sketchbooks provide a unique visual record of Gross's development and the shifting focus of his subject matter from 1933 to right before his death in 1991. They record his early subjects of acrobatic models, family bonds, and landscapes, and the emergence of darker "fantasy" drawings in the wake of the Holocaust and World War II which brought the news of the murder of his brother and sister and her family by the Nazis. The sketchbooks document Gross's travels abroad during the 1960s, and his incorporation of Jewish iconography and Old Testament themes in the 1960s and 1970s. They also illustrate how the constant theme of the celebration of the human form persisted in his work to the end of his life.

Photographs of people and events, although only measuring 0.7 linear feet, provide a rich visual record of Gross's life and his professional and personal relationships from the time he arrived in the United States in 1920 to the late 1980s. The earliest photographs picture Gross with his brothers and with new friends at the Educational Alliance including Moses and Raphael Soyer, Peter Blume, and Elias Newman. There are many photographs of Gross working in his studios, and at the Bedi-Makky Art Foundry in Brooklyn, photographs taken at parties, exhibition openings, receptions, and other events, and photographs of Gross's art collection and exhibition installations. Photographs picture artists such as Hyman Brown, Jose de Creeft, Joseph Hirsch, Moses Soyer, and Raphael Soyer; and gallery owners and collectors including Bella Fishko, Joseph Hirshhorn, Sidney Janis, and Warren M. Robbins. The series also houses photographs of works of art, primarily sculpture, executed by Gross between 1922 and 1987.

An unprocessed addition of three sketchbooks was donated in 2020.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as eight series.

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1920-circa 1991 (0.35 linear feet; Box 1, FC23)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1926-1997 (8.75 linear feet; Boxes 1-9, 22)

Series 3: Writings and Notes, 1938-circa 1980s (0.25 linear feet; Boxes 9-10)

Series 4: Personal Business Records, circa 1936-1982 (0.25 linear feet; Box 10)

Series 5: Printed Material, 1925-2004 (3.7 linear feet; Boxes 10-14, 22, FC 24)

Series 6: Sketchbooks, 1933-1991 (6.1 linear feet; Boxes 14-19, 22)

Series 7: Photographs, circa 1921-circa 1990s (1.5 linear feet; Boxes 20-22)

Series 8: Unprocessed Addition, 1949-1951 (0.2 linear feet; Box 25)

Biographical / Historical:

New York City sculptor and teacher Chaim Gross (1904-1991) is considered one of America's foremost sculptors, known for his semi-abstract bronzes celebrating the human form, and his pioneering work in direct wood carving. Gross taught for over fifty years at the Educational Alliance Art School and for forty years at the New School for Social Research.

Born in 1904 in Wolowa, Galicia, in what is now the Ukraine, Gross studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1919 and at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1920 before immigrating to New York in 1921. He attended the Lower East Side Educational Art School in New York City from 1921-1927 where he began lifelong friendships with artists Moses Soyer, Raphael Soyer, Peter Blume and other important twentieth century artists. Gross also studied with Elie Nadelman at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and Robert Laurent at the Art Students League. He began teaching at the Educational Alliance in 1927 where his students included Louise Nevelson.

Gross married Renee Nechin in 1932 and they had two children, Yehuda and Miriam (Mimi). Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist who was married to artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976.

Gross's first solo exhibition was held at Gallery 144 in New York City in 1932, and he began to develop a reputation as a major contemporary sculptor when he joined the Federal Art Project in 1934 and won a commission from the Treasury Department competition for art works for public buildings in 1936. His projects included relief panels for the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, D. C., and a large-scale family group for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1938 Gross founded the Sculptors Guild with William Zorach and served as the guild's first president. His work began to be acquired by major American museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art which in 1939 awarded Gross a $3000 purchase prize for his wood sculpture of circus performer Lillian Leitzel.

In 1938 filmmaker Lewis Jacobs produced a thirty minute film, Tree Trunk to Head, of Gross carving a wood sculpture of Renee Gross in his studio. Lewis subsequently produced a seventeen minute film, The Sculptor Speaks, of Gross working in his studio in 1957. That same year Gross published an influential how-to book The Technique of Wood Sculpture, featuring photographs by Eliot Elisofon.

Much of Gross's early work focused on performers such as acrobats and dancers, family groups, and the mother and child bond. The bulk of his work was in wood, particularly hardwoods with a dark or pronounced grain. In the 1940s, after hearing that his brother Pincus and sister Sarah and her family had been murdered by the Nazis, Gross devoted time daily to sketching in his notebooks, producing a visual diary of the emotional trauma involved in processing their horrific fate and navigating his own grief. A collection of the drawings was published in Chaim Gross: Fantasy Drawings (Beechurst Press) in 1956. Gross carved My Sister Sarah – in Memoriam (no. 36) in 1947 and made the first of seven trips to Israel in 1949.

By the late 1950s Gross was working less in direct carving and was focusing primarily on modeling in plaster on an armature for casting in bronze. In 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome, Italy, and worked with the Nicci Foundry. Bella Fishko began representing Gross's work after establishing Forum Gallery in New York City in 1961. After 1947 Gross had begun to incorporate more Jewish iconography and Old Testament themes into his work, designing and casting large scale menorahs for synagogues such as Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh and the Menorah Home for the Aged in Brooklyn during the 1960s. He executed six bronze panels, entitled Six Days of Creation, for Temple Sharaay Tefila in New York City in 1964, and Ten Commandments for the International Synagogue at Kennedy Airport in 1970-1971. In 1973 Gross illustrated The Book of Isaiah, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America.

Gross was active in many art-related and philanthropic organizations throughout his life and was the recipient of numerous awards, honors, and honorary degrees. He was elected to membership of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1964, became an Academician at the National Academy of Design in 1983, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984. A solo exhibition Chaim Gross: Sculpture and Drawings, was held at the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts in 1974. In 1977 Gross had three retrospective exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Montclair Art Museum, and the Jewish Museum in New York City. Scholar Roberta Tarbell wrote a key essay on Gross for the Jewish Museum exhibition.

In addition to being a professor of sculpture and printmaking at the Educational Alliance Art School and the New School for Social Research, Gross taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the art school of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Students League.

Gross had begun collecting African sculpture in the 1930s and was later introduced by art critic Frank Getlein to Warren M. Robbins, who established the Museum of African Art in 1964. Gross gave Robbins several pieces for the museum and connected him with other individuals whose private collections of African art Robbins learned would be key to the success of the museum. A selection from Gross's renowned collection was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross in 1976.

The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation was created in 1974 at 526 LaGuardia Place, the historic Greenwich Village townhouse which Chaim and Renee Gross purchased in 1962 and renovated to include studio and gallery space with living quarters above. Three years after Gross's death in 1991, the Renee and Chaim Gross foundation opened to the public with a memorial exhibition of the sculptor's work. 526 LaGuardia Place continues to house an extensive collection of Gross's artwork, a photographic archive, and Gross's personal art collection. Gross's work is represented in major museums throughout the United States and abroad, with the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden housing the largest collection of his sculpture in a public museum.

Related Materials:

Additional Chaim Gross papers are held by Syracuse University.

The Archives of American Art also holds an oral history interview of Chaim Gross conducted 1964 September 1 by Dorothy Seckler and an oral history interview of Chaim Gross conducted 1981 May 26-27 by Milton Wolf Brown.

Separated Materials:

The Archives of American Art holds the microfilm (Reels D115a, 924, and 925) of ten record books, 1926-1975, containing rough drawings of artworks, dimensions, titles, dates, materials, production locations, and information regarding owners. The record books were returned to the donor after microfilming and are not described in the collection container inventory.

Provenance:

The Chaim Gross papers were given to the Archives of American Art in a series of accessions by Chaim Gross from 1963-1983. Thirteen postcards were given by Mrs. Irving Marantz in 1975. Mimi Gross donated eight letters and two envelopes in 2005. Additional papers were donated by the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation in 2016 via Susan Fisher, executive Director, and in 2017 and 2020 by the Foundation via Sasha Davis, Interim Director and Curator of Collections.

Restrictions:

Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art teachers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Jewish artists  Search this

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sketchbooks

Video recordings

Motion pictures (visual works)

Citation:

Chaim Gross papers, 1920-2004. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The Chaim Gross papers were processed with funding from the Shirley Gorelick Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.groschai

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e77fa914-8285-4fca-a0f9-63172974dee1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-groschai

Artist:

Alan Bergman, 1943 - 2010  Search this

Sitter:

Ulysses Dove, 17 Jan 1947 - 11 Jun 1996  Search this

Sara Yarborough  Search this

Medium:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

Image: 24 x 35.6 cm (9 7/16 x 14")

Sheet: 30.3 x 40.5 cm (11 15/16 x 15 15/16")

Type:

Photograph

Date:

1975 (printed 2005)

Topic:

Interior\Performing Arts\Theatrical\Stage  Search this

Ulysses Dove: Male  Search this

Ulysses Dove: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Ulysses Dove: Performing Arts\Choreographer  Search this

Sara Yarborough: Female  Search this

Sara Yarborough: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2005.123

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Alan Bergman

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4cd3ddfe0-27a2-49b0-8da2-a37f1782a30a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2005.123

Artist:

Ralph Barton, 14 Aug 1891 - 19 May 1931  Search this

Printer:

StenliSilks Corporation  Search this

Sitter:

Norma Shearer, Aug 1902 - 12 Jun 1983  Search this

John Barrymore, 15 Feb 1882 - 29 May 1942  Search this

Eleanor Boardman, 19 Aug 1898 - 12 Dec 1991  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., 23 May 1883 - 12 Dec 1939  Search this

Mary Pickford, 8 Apr 1892 - 29 May 1979  Search this

Marion Davies, 3 Jan 1897 - 22 Sep 1961  Search this

Patsy Ruth Miller, 22 Jun 1905 - 16 Jul 1995  Search this

William Haines, 1900 - 26 Nov 1973  Search this

Betty Bronson, 17 Nov 1907 - 19 Oct 1971  Search this

Renee Adoree, 30 Sep 1898 - 5 Oct 1933  Search this

Fannie Ward, 1872 - 27 Jan 1952  Search this

Peggy Jean Montgomery, 29 Oct 1918 - 24 Feb 2020  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 09 Dec 1909 - 07 May 2000  Search this

Dolores Costello, 17 Sep 1905 - 1 Mar 1979  Search this

Lowell J. Sherman, 1885 - 1934  Search this

Clara Gordon Bow, 29 Jul 1905 - 26 Sep 1965  Search this

Joan Crawford, 23 Mar 1904 - 13 May 1977  Search this

Mary Astor, 3 May 1906 - 25 Sep 1987  Search this

Anna Q. Nilsson, 30 May 1890 - 1974  Search this

Sally O'Neil, 23 Oct 1908 - 1968  Search this

Jackie Coogan, 26 Oct 1914 - 1 Mar 1984  Search this

Lois Moran, 1 Mar 1908 - 13 Jul 1990  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, 16 Apr 1889 - 25 Dec 1977  Search this

Richard Dix, 8 Aug 1894 - 20 Sep 1949  Search this

Edmund Goulding, 20 Mar 1891 - 24 Dec 1959  Search this

Ramon Novarro, 6 Feb 1899 - 31 Oct 1968  Search this

Mauritz Stiller, 17 Jul 1883 - Nov 1928  Search this

Vilma Banky, 9 Jan 1898 - 18 Mar 1991  Search this

Emil Jannings, 23 Jul 1884 - 2 Jan 1950  Search this

Lya de Putti, 1901 - 27 Nov 1931  Search this

Lil Dagover, 30 Sep 1897 - 23 Jan 1980  Search this

James Robert Quirk, c. 1883 - 1 Aug 1932  Search this

Ernst Lubitsch, 29 Jan 1892 - 30 Nov 1947  Search this

Lothar Mendes, 19 May 1894 - 25 Feb 1974  Search this

George Jean Nathan, 14 Feb 1882 - 8 Apr 1958  Search this

F. W. Murnau, 1888 - 1931  Search this

Joseph Schildkraut, 1895 - 1964  Search this

Pola Negri, 3 Jan 1897 - 1 Aug 1987  Search this

Erich Von Stroheim, 22 Sep 1885 - 12 May 1957  Search this

Max Reinhardt, 9 Sep 1873 - 31 Oct 1943  Search this

Carl Van Vechten, 17 Jun 1880 - 21 Dec 1964  Search this

Paul Morand, 1888 - 1976  Search this

Anita Loos, 26 Apr 1888 - 18 Aug 1981  Search this

Konrad Bercovici, 1882 - 1961  Search this

Aileen Pringle, 1895 - 1989  Search this

Henry Louis Mencken, 12 Sep 1880 - 29 Jan 1956  Search this

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 24 Sep 1896 - 21 Dec 1940  Search this

Jim Tully, 1891 - 1947  Search this

Theodore Dreiser, 27 Aug 1871 - 28 Dec 1945  Search this

Joseph Hergesheimer, 15 Feb 1880 - 25 Apr 1954  Search this

Elinor Glyn, 1864 - 1943  Search this

Gloria May Josephine Swanson, 27 Mar 1899 - 4 Apr 1983  Search this

Irving Thalberg, 1899 - 1936  Search this

Greta Garbo, 18 Sep 1905 - 15 Apr 1990  Search this

John Gilbert, 10 Jul 1897 - 9 Jan 1936  Search this

Pauline Stark, 1900 - 1977  Search this

King Vidor, 1894 - 1982  Search this

Louis Burt Mayer, 1885 - 29 Oct 1957  Search this

Cecil Blount DeMille, 12 Aug 1881 - 21 Jan 1959  Search this

Marcus Loew, 7 May 1870 - 5 Sep 1927  Search this

Samuel Goldwyn, 27 Aug 1882 - 31 Jan 1974  Search this

Carl Laemmle, 1867 - 1939  Search this

Jesse Louis Lasky, 1880 - 1958  Search this

Adolph Zukor, 7 Jan 1873 - 10 Jun 1976  Search this

Morris Gest, 1881 - 1942  Search this

Victor McLaglen, 1886 - 1959  Search this

Edward "Hoot" Gibson, 1892 - 1962  Search this

Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy, 1891 - 1978  Search this

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 1 Apr 1885 - 15 Apr 1949  Search this

Matt Moore, 8 Jan 1888 - 21 Jan 1960  Search this

Mae Murray, 10 May 1889 - 23 Mar 1965  Search this

Lewis J. Cody, 1887 - 1934  Search this

William Fox, 1879 - 1952  Search this

Colleen Moore, 19 Aug 1900 - 25 Jan 1988  Search this

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, 22 Jan 1875 - 23 Jul 1948  Search this

May Allison, 1895 - 1989  Search this

Tom Moore, c.1884 - 1955  Search this

Owen Moore, 1886 - 1939  Search this

Noah Beery, Sr., 1884 - 1946  Search this

Tom Mix, 6 Jan 1880 - 12 Oct 1940  Search this

Lon Chaney, 1 Apr 1883 - 26 Aug 1930  Search this

Jack Dempsey, 24 Jun 1895 - 31 May 1983  Search this

Alla Nazimova, 4 Jun 1878 - 13 Jul 1945  Search this

Richard Barthelmess, 1895 - 1963  Search this

Estelle Taylor, 1899 - 1958  Search this

Blanche Sweet, 1896 - 1986  Search this

Marshal "Mickey" Neilan, 1891 - 1958  Search this

Louise Brooks, 1868 - 1929  Search this

Buster Keaton, 4 Oct 1895 - 1 Feb 1966  Search this

Bebe Daniels, 1901 - 1961  Search this

Will Rogers, 4 Nov 1879 - 15 Aug 1935  Search this

Lillian Gish, 14 Oct 1893 - 27 Feb 1993  Search this

Will H. Hays, 5 Nov 1879 - 7 Mar 1954  Search this

Dorothy Gish, 1898 - 1968  Search this

Constance Talmadge, c. 1899 - 1973  Search this

Bessie Love, 10 Sep 1898 - 26 Apr 1986  Search this

Lionel Barrymore, 28 Apr 1878 - 15 Nov 1954  Search this

Norma Talmadge, 1897 - 1957  Search this

Frances Marion Owens, 1890 - 1973  Search this

Florence Vidor, 1895 - 1977  Search this

George Fitzmaurice, 1895 - 1940  Search this

Eddie Cantor, Sept 1892 - 10 Oct 1964  Search this

Mack Sennett, 1880 - 1960  Search this

Adolphe Menjou, 18 Feb 1890 - 29 Oct 1963  Search this

Thomas Meighan, 1879 - 1936  Search this

Syd Chaplin, 1885 - 1965  Search this

Harry Langdon, 1884 - 1944  Search this

Justine Johnston  Search this

Beatrice Lillie, 29 May 1894 - 20 Jan 1989  Search this

Sid Grauman, 1879 - 1950  Search this

Ronald Charles Colman, 09 Feb 1891 - 19 May 1958  Search this

Mary Philbin, 1903 - 1993  Search this

William Randolph Hearst, 29 Apr 1863 - 14 Aug 1951  Search this

Walter Wanger, 1894 - 1968  Search this

Thomas Moreno, 1887 - 1967  Search this

Betty Compson, 1897 - 1974  Search this

Carmel Myers, 1900 - 1980  Search this

Conrad Nagel, 1897 - 1970  Search this

Corinne Griffith, 1896 - 1979  Search this

William Claude Fields, 29 Jan 1880 - 25 Dec 1946  Search this

H. B. Warner, 1876 - 1958  Search this

Louella Parsons, 1893 - 1972  Search this

Harold Clayton Lloyd, 20 Apr 1894 - 8 Mar 1971  Search this

Mabel Normand, 1894 - 1930  Search this

James Cruze, 1884 - 1942  Search this

Joseph M. Schenck, 1878 - 1961  Search this

Medium:

Printed silk

Dimensions:

Dress (on pillow in box): 98 x 70 x 3.5 cm. (38 9/16 x 27 9/16 x 1 3/8")

Belt: 90.5 x 7.5 cm. (35 5/8 x 3")

Type:

Decorative Arts

Date:

c. 1927

Topic:

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair  Search this

Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table  Search this

Caricature  Search this

Interior\Nightclub  Search this

Food  Search this

Decorative Arts\Clothing  Search this

Cecil Blount DeMille: Male  Search this

Cecil Blount DeMille: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Film director  Search this

Cecil Blount DeMille: Performing Arts\Producer\Film producer  Search this

Cecil Blount DeMille: Oscar  Search this

Cecil Blount DeMille: Legion of Honor  Search this

Lillian Gish: Female  Search this

Lillian Gish: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Lillian Gish: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Lillian Gish: Oscar  Search this

Eddie Cantor: Male  Search this

Eddie Cantor: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Eddie Cantor: Performing Arts\Performer\Comedian  Search this

Eddie Cantor: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter  Search this

Eddie Cantor: Oscar  Search this

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith: Male  Search this

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Film director  Search this

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith: Performing Arts\Producer\Film producer  Search this

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith: Oscar  Search this

Joan Crawford: Female  Search this

Joan Crawford: Society and Social Change\Philanthropist  Search this

Joan Crawford: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Joan Crawford: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Joan Crawford: Oscar  Search this

Will H. Hays: Male  Search this

Will H. Hays: Law and Law Enforcement\Lawyer  Search this

Will H. Hays: Politics and Government\Government official\Postmaster\Postmaster General\US Postmaster General  Search this

Will H. Hays: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Entertainment\Motion pictures  Search this

Will H. Hays: Politics and Government\Government official\Postmaster\Postmaster General  Search this

George Jean Nathan: Male  Search this

George Jean Nathan: Literature\Writer  Search this

George Jean Nathan: Journalism and Media\Journalist\Reporter\Newspaper  Search this

George Jean Nathan: Journalism and Media\Magazine editor  Search this

George Jean Nathan: Performing Arts\Theater critic  Search this

Clara Gordon Bow: Female  Search this

Clara Gordon Bow: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Norma Shearer: Female  Search this

Norma Shearer: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Norma Shearer: Oscar  Search this

Henry Louis Mencken: Male  Search this

Henry Louis Mencken: Journalism and Media\Magazine publisher  Search this

Henry Louis Mencken: Journalism and Media\Newspaper editor  Search this

Henry Louis Mencken: Journalism and Media\Journalist\Reporter\Newspaper  Search this

Henry Louis Mencken: Literature\Writer\Essayist  Search this

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Will Rogers: Male  Search this

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Will Rogers: Society and Social Change\Philanthropist  Search this

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Mary Pickford: Female  Search this

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Mary Pickford: Oscar  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.: Male  Search this

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Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.: Oscar  Search this

Carl Van Vechten: Male  Search this

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Jack Dempsey: Male  Search this

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Adolph Zukor: Male  Search this

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Greta Garbo: Female  Search this

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Greta Garbo: Oscar  Search this

Richard Barthelmess: Male  Search this

Richard Barthelmess: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Jesse Louis Lasky: Male  Search this

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William Fox: Male  Search this

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Lewis J. Cody: Male  Search this

Lewis J. Cody: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Thomas Meighan: Male  Search this

Thomas Meighan: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

William Randolph Hearst: Male  Search this

William Randolph Hearst: Politics and Government\Presidential candidate  Search this

William Randolph Hearst: Journalism and Media\Magazine publisher  Search this

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William Randolph Hearst: Visual Arts\Art collector  Search this

William Randolph Hearst: Politics and Government\US Congressman\New York  Search this

Owen Moore: Male  Search this

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Louis Burt Mayer: Male  Search this

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Louis Burt Mayer: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Entertainment\Motion pictures  Search this

Louis Burt Mayer: Oscar  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Male  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Politics and Government\Diplomat  Search this

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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Diplomatic agent  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Performing Arts\Film production manager  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Legion of Honor  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Distinguished Service Cross  Search this

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Officer\World War II  Search this

Mack Sennett: Male  Search this

Mack Sennett: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Mack Sennett: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Film director  Search this

Mack Sennett: Performing Arts\Producer\Film producer  Search this

Mack Sennett: Oscar  Search this

Carmel Myers: Female  Search this

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Jackie Coogan: Male  Search this

Jackie Coogan: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

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Jackie Coogan: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Child  Search this

Jackie Coogan: Military and Intelligence\Army  Search this

Bessie Love: Female  Search this

Bessie Love: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Adolphe Menjou: Male  Search this

Adolphe Menjou: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Captain  Search this

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Victor McLaglen: Male  Search this

Victor McLaglen: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Victor McLaglen: Oscar  Search this

Mary Astor: Female  Search this

Mary Astor: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Mary Astor: Oscar  Search this

Anita Loos: Female  Search this

Anita Loos: Literature\Writer\Novelist  Search this

Anita Loos: Literature\Writer\Playwright  Search this

Anita Loos: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter  Search this

Constance Talmadge: Female  Search this

Constance Talmadge: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Joseph Schildkraut: Visual Arts\Artist  Search this

Joseph Schildkraut: Male  Search this

Joseph Schildkraut: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Eleanor Boardman: Female  Search this

Eleanor Boardman: Visual Arts\Fashion model  Search this

Eleanor Boardman: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Patsy Ruth Miller: Female  Search this

Patsy Ruth Miller: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Patsy Ruth Miller: Literature\Writer\Novelist  Search this

William Haines: Male  Search this

William Haines: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

William Haines: Visual Arts\Designer\Interior designer  Search this

Betty Bronson: Female  Search this

Betty Bronson: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Betty Bronson: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Betty Bronson: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television  Search this

Renee Adoree: Female  Search this

Renee Adoree: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Renee Adoree: Performing Arts\Performer\Circus performer  Search this

Fannie Ward: Female  Search this

Fannie Ward: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Fannie Ward: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Fannie Ward: Performing Arts\Performer\Vaudeville  Search this

Dolores Costello: Female  Search this

Dolores Costello: Visual Arts\Fashion model  Search this

Dolores Costello: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Anna Q. Nilsson: Female  Search this

Anna Q. Nilsson: Visual Arts\Fashion model  Search this

Anna Q. Nilsson: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Sally O'Neil: Female  Search this

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Lois Moran: Female  Search this

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Lois Moran: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Lois Moran: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television  Search this

Lois Moran: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Lois Moran: Performing Arts\Dance Instructor  Search this

Richard Dix: Male  Search this

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Edmund Goulding: Male  Search this

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Edmund Goulding: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Film director  Search this

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Edmund Goulding: Literature\Writer\Playwright  Search this

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Ramon Novarro: Male  Search this

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Mauritz Stiller: Male  Search this

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Vilma Banky: Female  Search this

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Emil Jannings: Male  Search this

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Emil Jannings: Oscar  Search this

Lya de Putti: Female  Search this

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Lil Dagover: Female  Search this

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James Robert Quirk: Male  Search this

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James Robert Quirk: Journalism and Media\Magazine editor  Search this

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Lothar Mendes: Male  Search this

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Marion Davies: Female  Search this

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Max Reinhardt: Male  Search this

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Alla Nazimova: Female  Search this

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Alla Nazimova: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

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William Claude Fields: Male  Search this

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F. W. Murnau: Male  Search this

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Konrad Bercovici: Male  Search this

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Aileen Pringle: Female  Search this

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Jim Tully: Male  Search this

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Elinor Glyn: Female  Search this

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Irving Thalberg: Male  Search this

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Pauline Stark: Female  Search this

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King Vidor: Male  Search this

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Carl Laemmle: Male  Search this

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Edward "Hoot" Gibson: Male  Search this

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Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy: Male  Search this

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Matt Moore: Male  Search this

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Mae Murray: Female  Search this

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Mae Murray: Performing Arts\Performer  Search this

May Allison: Female  Search this

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Tom Moore: Male  Search this

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Noah Beery, Sr.: Male  Search this

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Tom Mix: Male  Search this

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Tom Mix: Natural Resource Occupations\Agriculturist\Cowboy  Search this

Estelle Taylor: Female  Search this

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Blanche Sweet: Female  Search this

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Marshal "Mickey" Neilan: Male  Search this

Marshal "Mickey" Neilan: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Marshal "Mickey" Neilan: Performing Arts\Performing arts director  Search this

Louise Brooks: Female  Search this

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Bebe Daniels: Female  Search this

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Norma Talmadge: Female  Search this

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Frances Marion Owens: Female  Search this

Frances Marion Owens: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter  Search this

Florence Vidor: Female  Search this

Florence Vidor: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

George Fitzmaurice: Male  Search this

George Fitzmaurice: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Film director  Search this

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Syd Chaplin: Male  Search this

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Harry Langdon: Male  Search this

Harry Langdon: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Justine Johnston: Female  Search this

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Justine Johnston: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this

Sid Grauman: Male  Search this

Sid Grauman: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive\Entertainment\Theater  Search this

Mary Philbin: Female  Search this

Mary Philbin: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Walter Wanger: Male  Search this

Walter Wanger: Performing Arts\Producer  Search this

Thomas Moreno: Male  Search this

Thomas Moreno: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Betty Compson: Female  Search this

Betty Compson: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Betty Compson: Performing Arts\Producer\Film producer  Search this

Conrad Nagel: Male  Search this

Conrad Nagel: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Corinne Griffith: Female  Search this

Corinne Griffith: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

H. B. Warner: Male  Search this

H. B. Warner: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Louella Parsons: Female  Search this

Louella Parsons: Journalism and Media\Journalist\Columnist  Search this

Mabel Normand: Female  Search this

Mabel Normand: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

James Cruze: Male  Search this

James Cruze: Performing Arts\Performing arts director\Film director  Search this

Joseph M. Schenck: Male  Search this

Joseph M. Schenck: Performing Arts\Producer  Search this

Joseph M. Schenck: Business and Finance\Businessperson\Business executive  Search this

Ronald Charles Colman: Male  Search this

Ronald Charles Colman: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Ronald Charles Colman: Oscar  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Richard Merkin

Object number:

NPG.96.126

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm407635a10-2f33-4eba-94b1-051ad0f75759

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.96.126

Maker:

Keystone View Company  Search this

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm

Object Name:

stereograph

Place made:

United States: Hawaii

Subject:

Dance  Search this

Dancers  Search this

Travel  Search this

ID Number:

2016.0066.211

Accession number:

2016.0066

Catalog number:

2016.0066.0211

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Work and Industry: Photographic History

Photography

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-cf7a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1822090

Maker:

Keystone View Company  Search this

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm

Object Name:

stereograph

Place made:

United States: Hawaii, Oahu, Honolulu

Subject:

Dance  Search this

Dancers  Search this

Travel  Search this

ID Number:

2016.0066.212

Accession number:

2016.0066

Catalog number:

2016.0066.0212

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Work and Industry: Photographic History

Music & Musical Instruments

Photography

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-d009-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1822091

Creator:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Type:

Interviews

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2021-03-04T18:09:24.000Z

YouTube Category:

Music  Search this

Topic:

Cultural property  Search this

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

YouTube Channel:

smithsonianfolkways

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_HOUMFcO7_qU

Creator:

Blue Eagle, Acee, 1907-1959  Search this

Names:

Abbott, Mae  Search this

Beaver, Fred  Search this

Bosin, Blackbear, 1921-1980  Search this

Campbell, Walter S.  Search this

Dale, Edward E.  Search this

Debo, Angie, 1890-1988  Search this

Dja, Devi  Search this

Echohawk, Brummett T., 1922-2006  Search this

Fairbanks, Charles H. (Charles Herron), 1913-1985  Search this

Feder, Norman  Search this

Field, Dorothy  Search this

Gilcrease, Thomas, 1890-1962  Search this

Houser, Allan, 1914-1994  Search this

Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983  Search this

Jackson, Oscar B.  Search this

Lemos, Pedro de  Search this

Marriott, Alice  Search this

Martinez, Julian, -1943  Search this

Martínez, María Montoya  Search this

McCombs, Solomon, 1913-1980  Search this

Medicine Crow, Joseph, 1913-2016  Search this

Mirabel, Eva  Search this

Momaday, Al  Search this

Pond, Charles E.  Search this

Rowan, Edward B.  Search this

Shears, Glen E.  Search this

Sheets, Nan  Search this

Steinke, Bettina, 1913-1999  Search this

Sunrise, Riley  Search this

Te Ata  Search this

Whitehorse, Roland Noah, 1920-1998  Search this

Extent:

673 Paintings (visual works) (approximate)

30 Linear feet (55 document boxes and 8 oversize boxes)

Culture:

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Paintings (visual works)

Date:

1907 - 1975

Summary:

Acee Blue Eagle was a Pawnee-Creek artist, poet, dancer, teacher, and celebrity. The papers relate to both Blue Eagle's personal and professional life. Also included are some materials of Blue Eagle's friend Mae Abbott and a collection of art by other Indians.

Scope and Contents:

This collection reflects the life and work of Acee Blue Eagle, internationally famed Indian artist of Oklahoma. Identified for his brilliant paintings of tribal ceremonies, legend and dance, Blue Eagle's work is represented in numerous private collections and museums both in this country and abroad.

A portion of the papers contains correspondence. Fan mail written by school children to Chief Blue Eagle of the Chief Blue Eagle television program is included. Letters regarding Blue Eagle's participation in Indian festivals and events, art shows and exhibitions, speaking engagements on Indian life and culture are found in the collection. Personal correspondence is included; most frequent correspondents are Devi Dja, Mae Abbott, and Charles E. Pond. There are approximately 100 letters from Devi Dja, approximately 90 to or from Mae Abbott, and approximately 36 from Charles E. Pond. Some letters addressed to these individuals from other friends and acquaintances are also within this collection.

Photographs comprise a large portion of the Blue Eagle collection. Included are not only portraits of the artist himself and photographs of his art work, but a large number of prints of Blue Eagle in full costume and other Indians engaged in tribal ceremonies, identified by tribe, whenever possible. Photographs of Mae Abbott, Devi Dja and the latter's Balinese dance troupe are identified. A file of negatives is arranged in the same subject order as the prints. Newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Blue Eagle's work and activities are also included in the collection. These clippings have not been arranged. In addition, Mae Abbott's recipes and notes for her cookbook, wood blocks, greeting cards and other miscellaneous publications can be found in the collection. These items have been sorted but not arranged.

Within the collection are also over 600 pieces of artwork. A good number are by Blue Eagle while most are by other Native artists. Artists whose are work are represented in the collection include Fred Beaver, Harrison Begay, Archie Blackowl, Woodrow Crumbo, Allan Houser, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Quicy Tahoma, Pablita Verde, and members of the Kiowa Five (Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke).

Arrangement note:

The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Personal; 2) Collections; 3) Artwork; 4) Television; 5) Correspondence; 6) Photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Acee Blue Eagle was an artist, poet, dancer, teacher, and celebrity. Born Alex C. McIntosh in 1907, Blue Eagle attended Indian schools in Anadarko, Nuyaka, and Euchee, Oklahoma, and the Haskell and Chilocco Indian schools. Advanced study came at Bacone Indian College and the University of Oklahoma. At the latter, he studied with Oscar B. Jacobson. Privately he studied with Winold Reiss. Discrepancies exist in the records regarding his early life: born in either Anadarko or Hitchita, Oklahoma; he's cited as both Pawnee-Creek and 5/8 Creek without any Pawnee blood; his mother is either Mattie Odom, the first wife of Solomon McIntosh or Ella Starr, McIntosh's second wife.

A prolific painter who, for the sake of authenticity, carried out research in libraries and museums, Blue Eagle was an outstanding American Indian artist of the 1930s-1950s. His paintings hung in many exhibits, including the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, 1932-1933; International Art Exhibition of Sport Subjects at Los Angeles, 1932; Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1934; a one-man show at the Young Galleries in Chicago; National Exhibition of Art at the Rockefeller Center in New York, 1936; a one-man show at the Washington, D.C., Arts Club, 1936; Museum of Modern Art, 1941; Northwest Art Exhibition at Spokane, Washington, 1944; a one-man show at the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953; An Exposition of American Indian Painters in New York, 1955; and a one-man show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, 1957. Between 1946 and 1965, over fifty galleries hung his paintings. Some pieces are among the permanent holdings of many institutions.

In 1934, Blue Eagle joined the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Public Works of Art Project, painting murals in public buildings. In 1935 at Oxford University, he participated in a program of the International Federation of Education and lectured on Indian art. A tour of Europe followed. He taught at Bacone Indian College from 1935-1938 where he founded the art program and became Director of Art. He also taught at the University of Kansas extension division in 1949 and Oklahoma State Technical College beginning in 1956. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Force; and, following the war, he spent a few years attempting to get into the movies. During 1946-1952, he was married to his second wife, a famous Balinese dancer, Devi Dja, and became involved in her career, an involvement that was briefly reflected in his art. However, Dja and Blue Eagle divorced and Blue Eagle lived with Mae Wadley Abbott for the last years of his life. During the 1950s, he had a television show for children on a Tulsa-Muskogee station. Acee Blue Eagle died on June 18, 1959 of a liver infection.

Sources Consulted

Martindale, Rob. Muskogee Paying Tribute to Blue Eagle. Biographical/Genealogical data, Box 1, Acee Blue Eagle Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

West, Juanita W. 1967. Acee Blue Eagle: A.C. McIntosh. Biographical/Genealogical data, Box 1, Acee Blue Eagle Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

1907 -- Born August 17, 1907 on the Wichita Reservation, north of Anadarko, Oklahoma

1928 -- Graduated Chilocco High School

1929-1934 -- Attended Bacone College, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Tech

1935 -- Toured United States and Europe giving lecture-exhibition program, "Life and Character of the American Indian"

1935-1938 -- Established and headed art department at Bacone College at Muskogee

1936 -- Exhibited at the National Exhibition of Art, Rockefeller Center, New York

1942-1945 -- World War II, U.S. Air Force (Army)

1947-49 -- Free-lance work in New York and Chicago

1951-52 -- Artist-in-residence at Oklahoma Tech

1950-54 -- Conducted TV program, Muskogee, OklahomaToured U.S. West Coast exhibiting and lecturing about ways to improve TV programs for children

1958 -- Named Indian-of-the-Year by the American Indian Expostion at Anadarko, Oklahoma

1959 -- Died June 18, 1959

Related Materials:

Other materials relating to Acee Blue Eagle at the National Anthropological Archives include correspondence in the Solomon McCombs papers, 1914-1972, and correspondence with Betty Meilink under Manuscript 2011-20.

Provenance:

Acee Blue Eagle's private papers and collection of paintings were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Mrs. Mae Abbott of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Restrictions:

There are no restrictions on access.

Rights:

Literary property rights to unpublished material in the collection in the National Anthropological Archives has been given to the public.

Topic:

Indian art -- North America  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Citation:

Acee Blue Eagle Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.1973-51

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Acee Blue Eagle papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30f5eef50-cb31-4d85-87ef-5ae9fedac6f7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1973-51

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival  Search this

Extent:

1 Cubic foot (approximate)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Memorandums

Negatives

Video recordings

Audiotapes

Videotapes

Audiocassettes

Business records

Digital images

Correspondence

Sound recordings

Notes

Plans (drawings)

Slides (photographs)

Photographic prints

Contracts

Place:

Caribbean Area

Puerto Rico

Date:

June 26-July 7, 1985

Summary:

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Scope and Contents note:

This collection documents the planning, production, and execution of the 1985 Festival of American Folklife. Materials may include photographs, audio recordings, motion picture film and video recordings, notes, production drawings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, informational materials, publications, and ephemera. Such materials were created during the Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in the featured communities, before or after the Festival itself.

Arrangement note:

Arranged in 5 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Program Books, Festival Publications, and Ephemera

Series 2: Cultural Conservation

Series 3: Louisiana

Series 4: Mela! An Indian Fair

Series 5: Special Events

Historical note:

The Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998.

The 1985 Festival of American Folklife was produced by the Smithsonian Office of Folklife Programs and cosponsored by the National Park Service.

For more information, see Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Introduction:

From the first Festival of American Folklife in 1967 through the 1984 Festival, more than 10,000 participants traveled to Washington to share their wisdom and talent with visitors, Festival Director Diana Parker recalled in the 1985 Program Book. In explaining and demonstrating their skills as singers, dancers, musicians, cooks, artisans, storytellers, and workers, they represented legions more in their home communities. Because of the time and knowledge they shared, lives had been enriched, while the cultural understanding of the aesthetic variety in this and other nations had broadened. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian's archive of folklife research and programming experience had grown incrementally each year. There remained much still to be learned, and each participant's story added to our understanding of the mosaic of folk culture.

Festival participants often spoke of their struggle to maintain traditions in the face of overwhelming odds. Each year brought another person to inform visitors, "I am the last who knows how to do this the old way." For this reason the Folklife Programs viewed conservation of culture as an issue equal in urgency to the conservation of natural resources, for the pluralism reflected at each year's Festival would be terrible to lose. The Smithsonian was not, of course, the only organization concerned with cultural conservation. The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress consistently contributed on a national scale to research and preservation of traditional culture. Numerous state and local programs were also hard at work in similar efforts and have made notable contributions. As the National Endowment for the Arts celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1985, the Smithsonian was especially aware of the immense contributions of its Folk Arts Program.

The 1985 Festival took place for two five-day weeks (June 26-30 and July 3-7) between Madison Drive and Jefferson Drive and between 10th Street and 14th Street, south of the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History (see site plan).

For the 1985 Festival, more than two hundred participants came to Washington to share in a great celebration of cultural diversity. Three thematic programs were presented, complemented by a number of special events. The 1985 Program Book provides information on each of the programs.

The 1985 Festival was co-presented by the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service and organized by the Office of Folklife Programs. In addition to specific support (acknowledged below) for the Louisiana and Mela! programs, the recording industry provided support in part for the instrumental music in performances at the Festival through the Music Performance Trust Funds (Martin A. Paulson, Trustee).

Office of Folklife Programs

Peter Seitel, Director; Diana Parker, Festival Director; Thomas Vennum, Jr., Senior Ethnomusicologist; Marjorie Hunt, Folklorist; Alicia María González, Folklorist and Program Developer; Kazadi wa Mukuna, Ethnomusicologist; Richard Derbyshire, Archivist; Laurie Kalb, Foodways Coordinator

National Park Service

William Penn Mott, Jr., Director; Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Capital Region

Shared Stewardship of Collections:

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://folklife.si.edu/archives#shared-stewardship.

Forms Part Of:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1985 Festival of American Folklife forms part of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival records .

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: Papers

1967 Festival of American Folklife records - [Ongoing]

Related Archival Materials note:

Within the Rinzler Archives, related materials may be found in various collections such as the Ralph Rinzler papers and recordings, the Lily Spandorf drawings, the Diana Davies photographs, the Robert Yellin photographs, and the Curatorial Research, Programs, and Projects collection. Additional relevant materials may also be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives concerning the Division of Performing Arts (1966-1983), Folklife Program (1977-1980), Office of Folklife Programs (1980-1991), Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies (1991-1999), Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present), and collaborating Smithsonian units, as well as in the administrative papers of key figures such as the Secretary and respective deputies. Users are encouraged to consult relevant finding aids and to contact Archives staff for further information.

Restrictions:

Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

arts and crafts  Search this

Folk art  Search this

Folk festivals  Search this

World music  Search this

Food habits  Search this

Folk music  Search this

Folklore  Search this

Genre/Form:

Memorandums

Negatives

Video recordings

Audiotapes

Videotapes

Audiocassettes

Business records

Digital images

Correspondence

Sound recordings

Notes

Plans (drawings)

Slides (photographs)

Photographic prints

Contracts

Citation:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1985 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.SFF.1985

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1985 Festival of American Folklife

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5bf226fa1-a213-4111-9413-e1a0a7c57ee8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-cfch-sff-1985

Creator:

Ostroff, Eugene, d. 1999 (NMAH Curator)  Search this

Salo, Matt, Dr.  Search this

Haberstich, David E., 1941-  Search this

Ahlborn, Richard E., 1933-2015  Search this

Alland, Alexander, Sr. (Alexander Landschaft), 1902-1989  Search this

Names:

China Daily News -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

China Daily News -- Photographs  Search this

United States. Works Progress Administration  Search this

Davis, Earl  Search this

Kaslov, Steve, ca. 1888-1949 (King of the Red Bandanna Romany Gypsies )  Search this

Extent:

0.25 Cubic feet (4 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Oral history

Interviews

Audio cassettes

Place:

Virgin Islands -- 1930-1940

New York (N.Y.) -- 1930-1940

Bowery (New York, N.Y.) -- 1930-1940

Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- 1930-1940

St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) -- 1930-1940

Date:

1985 - 1986

1930 - 1943

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains 273 silver gelatin photoprints (Series 1), most of which apparently were made during the 1930s and early 1940s, contemporaneously with the original negatives. All are 8" x 10" or slightly smaller, unmounted except for flush mounted linen on the backs of some prints. The photographs were made primarily in two locations, New York City and the Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands pictures were made as part of a special documentary project in 1939, as described above, whereas the New York photographs stem from Mr. Alland's largely self assigned documentation of various ethnic and religious groups in New York from approximately 1932 to 1943. The projects include photographs of the "Red Bandanna" Romany Gypsy group in the Bowery, a black Jewish congregation, Mohawk Indians in Brooklyn, and other groups, which required extensive exploration, research, and photographing over periods of many days or weeks. A variety of miscellaneous ethnic and religious groups are covered in the general "Other Religions" and "Nationalities" folders. The contents of the "Judaism" folder include primarily New York sites and people, but there are also additional views of a synagogue from the Virgin Islands project.

Series 2 of the collection contains four cassette tape recordings of two interviews with Mr. Alland, three made by Richard Ahlborn (with Eugene Ostroff and Matt Salo) in 1985, and one by David Haberstich and Richard Ahlborn, June 2-3, 1986 (at which time the photographs were donated). The tapes include readings from his autobiography, personal reminiscences on his experiences as an immigrant and a photographer, and commentary on the photographs.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into two series.

Series 1: Photoprints, 1930-1943

Series 2: Audiotape Cassettes, 1985-1986

The photographs are arranged topically and by nationality.

Biographical / Historical:

Alexander Alland, Sr., was born in Sevastopol, Crimea (formerly in the Soviet Union) on 6 August 1902. His last name originally was Landschaft, but he legally changed it to Alland following the birth of his son. Alland's interest in photography began at the age of twelve, when he helped a local photographer with darkroom work. He constructed his own camera from cardboard with a simple meniscus lens and exposed glass plate negatives with the device.

Toward the end of the Civil War in Russia in 1920, Alland relocated in Constantinople, Turkey, where he was hired as an apprentice by a graduate of the Vienna Academy of Photography. When the Union Nationale des Combatants Francais went on a pilgrimage to Gallipoli, a former battle zone on the Dardanelles, he was asked to accompany them in order to document events. After having his request for a pay increase refused, he left his employer two years later and opened his own portrait studio, "Photo d'Art Russe." When civil unrest threatened Constantinople in 1923, he decided to emigrate to the United States.

During his first years in the United States he worked in photo finishing businesses while engaged in home portraiture independently. He married in 1929 and a son, Alexander, Jr., was born. In the 1930s he became one of the best known photographers portraying the life of immigrants and various ethnic groups in New York. (1) In 1936 he was appointed supervisor of the Photo Mural section of the W.P.A. Federal Art Project, and worked as a free lance photographer for magazines and periodicals featuring the activities of various ethnic groups living in New York City. He specialized in making photomurals with montage techniques. (2)

In 1937 Alland became photography instructor at the American Artists' School and joined the American Artists Congress. In 1939, his first book, Portrait of New York, was published and he became president of the "Exploration Photo Syndicate" and went to the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of a project to produce a pictorial record of the West Indian Islands. His photographs appeared in publications and were exhibited at the New School for Social Research and at the Schomberg Collection. In 1942 he joined the staff of Common Ground magazine as photography editor and was appointed by the National Youth Administration to supervise their photography workshop. His book American Counterpoint appeared in 1943 and was selected as "One of the Fifty Best Books of the Year." The original prints from that book were exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, which also exhibited a portfolio of his work on American Gypsies. In 1944 he became director of an agency, "Pictures for Democracy," and in 1945 his book The Springfield Plan was proclaimed another "One of the Fifty Best Books of the Year."

During World War II Alland did technical photography for the War Department, receiving a commendation for this work. After another book My Dog Rinty was published, he left New York City to establish a school of photography, combined with a school of dance directed by his wife, Alexandra, a professional dancer and choreographer. (3) He then began to exhibit his own photographs and to collect glass plate negatives and vintage prints by significant photographers. He is perhaps best known for locating a collection of Jacob Riis negatives and making them available. In 1974 Aperture published his biography, Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen4. Because of his efforts in providing the Riis negatives to the Museum of the City of New York, that institution awarded a special commemorative medal to him in 1973. The Riis book was followed by two more studies of photographers, Jessie Tarbox Beals, First Woman News Photographer (5) and Heinrich Tonnies, Cartes de Visite Photographer Extraordinaire. (6)

Retrospective exhibitions of Alland's work were held in two major Danish museums in summer 1979 and he was honored for contributions to the cultural history of Denmark. In 1991 studies for his photomural work were included in an historical survey exhibition of American photomontage at the University of Maryland at College Park. (7).

Sources

1. My text is based upon the biographical information recorded on my taped interviews with Mr. Alland in this collection, but see also Bonnie Yochelson, The Committed Eye: Alexander Alland's Photography. New York: The Museum of the City of New York, Inc., 1991.

2. Merry A. Foresta, "Art and Document: Photography of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project," in Official Images: New Deal Photography (essays by Foresta, Pete Daniel, Maren Stange, and Sally Stein), Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987, p. 153, based on an interview with Alland, January 1987.

3. Photographic historian Anne Peterson, contractor for three Archives Center photographic collection projects between 1986 and 1982, reports that she studied ballet as a child with Mrs. Alland.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid

7. See catalog by Cynthia Wayne, Dreams, Lies, and Exaggeration: Photomontage in America. The Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, 1991 (exhibition at the gallery Oct. 21 Dec. 20, 1991).

Related Materials:

Materials in the Archives Center

Carlos de Wendler Funaro Gypsy Research Collection (AC0161)

Contains additional Alland photographs. De Wendler Funaro also photographed Steve Kaslov, his family, and his Bowery coppersmith workshop.

Provenance:

Collection donated by Alexander Alland, June 3, 1986.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Copyrighted material: photographs may not be reproduced without written permission from the Estate of Alexander Alland, Sr.

Topic:

Synagogues -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York, N.Y.  Search this

Newspapers -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Muslims -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Minorities -- Housing -- 1930-1940 -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Minorities -- Housing -- 1930-1940 -- Virgin Islands  Search this

Judaism -- Customs and practices  Search this

Housing -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Immigrants -- 1930-1940 -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Housing -- 1930-1940 -- Virgin Islands  Search this

Buddhism -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Catholic Church -- Liturgy  Search this

Chinese drama -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Churches -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Clergy -- 1930-1940 -- United States  Search this

Coppersmiths -- 1930-1950  Search this

Ethnic costume  Search this

Ethnic groups -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Falashas -- 1930-1940 -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Fortune-tellers -- Gypsies -- 1930-1940 -- United States  Search this

Pluralism  Search this

Poverty -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Virgin Islands  Search this

Printing -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Protestant churches -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Religious and ecclesiastical institutions -- Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- New York N.Y.  Search this

Singers -- 1930-1950  Search this

Synagogues -- 1930-1940 -- Virgin Islands  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1900-1950

Oral history -- 1980-1990

Interviews -- 1980-2000

Audio cassettes -- 1980-1990

Citation:

Alexander Alland, Sr., Photoprints, 1932-1943, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of the artist.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0204

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Alexander Alland, Sr., Photoprints

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8795050c9-502c-4bfa-afa7-3554b2c036d7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0204

Photographer:

Davies, Diana, 1938-  Search this

Gahr, David  Search this

Performer:

Bread and Puppet Theater  Search this

Everly Brothers  Search this

New Lost City Ramblers  Search this

Pentangle (Musical group)  Search this

The Pennywhistlers (Musical group)  Search this

The Young Tradition (Musical group)  Search this

Andersen, Eric  Search this

Bikel, Theodore  Search this

Brand, Oscar  Search this

Cameron, John A.  Search this

Chandler, Len  Search this

Collier, Jimmy  Search this

Collins, Judy, 1939-  Search this

Fuller, Jesse  Search this

Gerrard, Alice, 1934-  Search this

Guthrie, Arlo  Search this

Hartford, John  Search this

Hjorth, Ole  Search this

Joplin, Janis  Search this

Kennedy, Norman, 1934-  Search this

Kershaw, Doug  Search this

Killen, Louis  Search this

Kirkpatrick, Frederick Douglass  Search this

Koerner, John  Search this

McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996  Search this

Mitchell, Joni  Search this

Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996  Search this

Muddy Waters, 1915-1983  Search this

Ochs, Phil  Search this

Perkins, Carl  Search this

Proffitt, Frank, Jr., 1946-2005  Search this

Rachell, Yank  Search this

Raim, Ethel  Search this

Ramsey, Frederic, 1915-1995  Search this

Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-  Search this

Rinzler, Ralph  Search this

Sainte-Marie, Buffy  Search this

Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009  Search this

Stabi, Björn  Search this

Sykes, Roosevelt, 1906-1983  Search this

Taylor, James  Search this

Traum, Artie  Search this

Traum, Happy  Search this

Watson, Doc  Search this

Watson, Merle  Search this

White, Elaine (Vocalist)  Search this

Wiseman, Mac  Search this

Names:

Newport Folk Festival  Search this

Philadelphia Folk Festival  Search this

Asch, Moses  Search this

Chandler, Nancy  Search this

Dunson, Josh, 1941-  Search this

King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006  Search this

Silber, Irwin, 1925-2010  Search this

Young, Izzy, 1928-2019  Search this

Musician:

Bosco, John  Search this

Extent:

3.83 Cubic feet (8 binders containing contact sheets, slides, and prints; 7 boxes (8.5"x10.75"x2.5") of 35 mm negatives; 2 binders of 35 mm and 120 format negatives; and 1 box of 11 oversize prints.)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Contact sheets

Slides (photographs)

Black-and-white negatives

Photographic prints

Place:

New York (N.Y.)

Saint Simons Island (Ga. : Island)

Date:

1963-2009

Summary:

The Diana Davies photographs consist of images taken by Diana Davies at various stages of her career. Locations include the Festival of American Folklife, the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Poor People's Campaign, various peace and protest marches and outdoor performances, New York City, and the Georgia Sea Islands. The collection includes contact sheets, negatives, photographic prints, and slides. Original photographs, negatives, and color slides taken by Diana Davies. Materials date from 1963-2009. Bulk dates: Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1969, 1987, 1992; Philadelphia Folk Festival, 1967-1968, 1987.

Scope and Contents:

The Diana Davies photographs, 1963-2009, consist of black and white negatives, contact sheets and prints, as well as color slides and negatives. The bulk of materials depict major festivals and protest movements (including the Poor People's March of 1968) documented by Diana Davies (located in Series 1: Newport Folk Festival, Series 2: Philadelphia Folk Festival, Series 6: Festival of American Folklife, and Series 11: Social Justice). Also well-represented are non-festival performances (in locations such as clubs, concert halls, and homes), recording sessions, and other music-related images, mainly of notable figures in the American folk music revival (located in Series 3: Broadside Magazine, Series 4: Sing Out! Magazine Concerts, Series 5: Miscellaneous Concerts and People, Series 7: Recording Sessions, Series 8: Instruction Book Shots, and Series 9: Jazz, Blues, and Salsa Musicians). Series 10: Georgia Sea Islands consists of photographs depicting the culture, environment, and daily life of these coastal islands in 1966. Series 12: New York City Scenes contains photographs taken on the street depicting everyday life in NYC in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection also contains related papers in Series 13: Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence.

Arrangement note:

Each item in the Diana Davies Photographs has been assigned an accession number, and like materials have been put together such as the Newport Folk Festival photographs, in a chronological sequence as much as possible. Materials in the three more recent donation batches (1998, 2004, and 2006) were numbered and integrated into the collection. In some series, the accession numbers are in numerical order, and in others, the numbers are random because like items with different number sequences were pulled together in a series for subject coherence. The best way to find occurrences of a particular subject is to use the ctrl+F function. Please consult the archivists if you have any questions about the collection contents.

Contact sheets, slides, and prints arranged in 8 binders; negatives and oversize prints are stored separately.

Arranged in 14 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Newport Folk Festival

Series 2: Philadelphia Folk Festival

Series 3: Broadside Magazine

Series 4: -- Sing Out! -- Magazine Concerts

Series 5: Miscellaneous Concerts and People

Series 6: Festival of American Folklife

Series 7: Recording Sessions

Series 8: Instruction Book Shots

Series 9: Jazz, Blues, and Salsa Musicians

Series 10: Georgia Sea Islands

Series 11: Social Justice

Series 12: New York City Scenes

Series 13: Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence

Series 14: Oversize Materials

Biographical/Historical note:

Diana Davies is a well-known photographer of folk performers and festivals. Davies photographed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in its earlier years. Born in 1938, Davies grew up in Maine, the Catskills, New York City, and Boston. Her grandparents were local union organizers and Debs socialists; one grandfather was a gandy dancer with the railroad, and her grandmother was a textile worker in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Davies finds that her family background was later expressed in her own activist efforts.

Davies left high school at 16, and worked sweeping out coffeehouses, which gave her the opportunity to listen to music while she worked. She became interested in theater and music. In Greenwich Village, she began doing some sound technician work, and then got interested in photography. She taught herself how to develop and print photographs in a darkroom, and began photographing in theaters, shooting from behind the scenes. Her theater photos are at Smith College in Northampton, where she presently lives. In the early 1960s, she began working with the editors of Broadside Magazine, Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen. She developed an interest in human rights work, which grew from her contact with Sis and Gordon, and also her own family background. She also worked as a photographer in a wide range of settings, including night clubs, weddings, and doing portrait photography. This led her to work for major national and international media including the New York Times, covering such events as the war in Biafra, and traveling to Mexico, Cuba, and Portugal on assignment.

Davies' folk photographs represent about one-quarter of her body of work; her other major photographic work includes the Civil Rights Movement, the Peace Movement, and theater. Davies began photographing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, which she covered for a number of years. She knew Ralph Rinzler, and found him a vibrant, alive person excited by all aspects of culture. He introduced her to Bessie Jones from the Georgia Sea Islands, and in 1966 she made a photographic journey to the islands. Her work from this trip is included in the collection. Davies has also been a musician. She became involved with the punk rock movement of the 1970s, and felt that there was a connection between the hard-hitting songs from the punk world and the songs being published in Broadside Magazine. In 1975, she became part of a folk/punk women's band in Boston, and later moved to Western Massachusetts. In addition to being a photographer and musician, Davies is also a writer. She wrote a play entitled "The Witch Papers" in 1980, which was produced in Boston and other locations. The play was a vehicle for her human rights activism, comparing the technology of inquisition with labor sweatshops. In 1998, her play "The War Machine" was produced in Amherst, Mass. She lives in Northampton, and enjoys and participates in street performance, which she describes as the "most essentially communicative stuff you can come up with."

General note:

All contact sheets from the collection are digitized and accessible through this finding aid. Series-level slideshows accessible through this finding aid represent a small sampling from the collection.

Shared Stewardship of Collections:

The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://folklife.si.edu/archives#shared-stewardship.

Provenance:

The Smithsonian Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections acquired portions of the Diana Davies Photograph Collection in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Ms. Davies photographed for the Festival of American Folklife. More materials came to the Archives circa 1989 or 1990. Archivist Stephanie Smith visited her in 1998 and 2004, and brought back additional materials which Ms. Davies wanted to donate to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. These two more recent donations of additional photographs (contact sheets, prints, and slides) consisted of documentation of the Newport Folk Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Poor People's March on Washington, the Civil Rights Movement, the Georgia Sea Islands, and miscellaneous personalities of the American folk revival. In a letter dated 12 March 2002, Ms. Davies gave full discretion to the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to grant permission for both internal and external use of her photographs, with the provison that her work be credited in any use.

Restrictions:

Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

Peace movements  Search this

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963  Search this

Civil rights -- United States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Contact sheets

Slides (photographs)

Black-and-white negatives

Photographic prints

Citation:

Diana J. Davies photographs, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

or

Photo by Diana J. Davies. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and COllections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.DAVIE

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Diana Davies photographs

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk59fa9fef6-8287-4b3c-8f47-119c519dd318

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-cfch-davie

Creator:

Sarchiapone, Cosmos Andrew, 1931-2011  Search this

Names:

Parsons School of Design -- Faculty  Search this

Push Pin Studios  Search this

School of Visual Arts (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty  Search this

Arbus, Diane, 1923-1971  Search this

Cage, John, 1912-1992  Search this

Glaser, Milton  Search this

Hay, Alex  Search this

Huebler, Douglas  Search this

Israel, Marvin  Search this

Johnson, Ray, 1927-  Search this

Kelly, Ellsworth, 1923-  Search this

Scull, Robert C.  Search this

Sonneman, Eve  Search this

Extent:

49.2 Linear feet

0.367 Gigabytes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

Drawings

Ephemera

Illustrations

Music

Photocopies

Photographs

Posters

Prints

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Place:

New York (State) -- New York City -- Photographs

Date:

circa 1860-2011

bulk 1940-2011

Summary:

The papers of New York City photographer, conceptual artist, and musical composer Cosmos Sarchiapone measure 49.2 linear feet and 0.367 GB and date from circa 1860-2011, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940-2011. The collection includes biographical material and personal business records; correspondence; extensive writings, including written and recorded music compositions; teaching files; printed material and published sound and video recordings; photographic material; artwork; artifacts; and unpublished sound recordings and born-digital material. Highlights of the collection are more than 40,000 photographic images documenting New York's avant-garde art scene of the 1970s, along with celebrity parties, concerts, exhibition openings and other occasions in the art, music, and theater world. Extensive and somewhat rare printed materials offer users a visual chronical of the downtown art world in the form of posters from the 1970s, including a number of Milton Glaser's, and hundreds of exhibition announcements, theater programs, and playbills.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of New York City photographer, conceptual artist, and musical composer Cosmos Sarchiapone measure 49.2 linear feet and 0.367 GB and date from circa 1860-2011, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940-2011. The collection includes biographical material and personal business records; correspondence; extensive writings, including written and recorded music compositions; teaching files; printed material and published sound and video recordings; photographic material; artwork; artifacts; and unpublished sound recordings and born-digital material. Highlights of the collection are more than 40,000 photographic images documenting New York's avant-garde art scene of the 1970s, along with celebrity parties, concerts, exhibition openings and other occasions in the art, music, and theater world. Extensive and somewhat rare printed materials offer users a visual chronical of the downtown art world in the form of posters from the 1970s, including a number of Milton Glaser's, and hundreds of exhibition announcements, theater programs, and playbills.

Biographical material and personal business records include address books, calendars, legal paperwork, life documents, resumes, and other material. Correspondence is both personal and professional in nature. Personal correspondence is between Cosmos and friends, family, and pen pals. Professional correspondence is with curators, publishers, and estates and mostly concerns Cosmos's artwork, photographs, or objects he lent for exhibition or publication.

Writings include general writings and notes, including a book layout for a book never realized; fifteen notebooks containing Cosmos's writings about projects, dreams, and miscellany; music compositions in both written form and on sound recordings; and scattered writings by others, including manuscripts and theater scripts.

Teaching files document photography courses taught by Cosmos at the School of Visual Arts in 1974-1976, and the Parsons School of Design in 1980.

Printed materials and commercially published sound and video recordings in the collection are extensive and reflect Cosmos's unique interests and inspirations, and his tendency to save and collect material discarded or rejected by others. There are books and periodicals featuring Cosmos's work, annotated by Cosmos, or of special significance to Cosmos. There is also a list of books in Cosmos's library. Some of the periodicals concern Push Pin Studios and Milton Glaser. There is a large group of ephemera, such as announcements, catalogs, press releases, programs, playbills, posters, and assorted items covering several decades of New York exhibitions, events, concerts, and performances. There are posters for exhibitions, events, performances, film screenings, and concerts. Some of the clippings and other ephemera may have been removed from scrapbooks or other compilations, and some remain collated and mounted on mat board. Some of the printed materials may have been used by Cosmos as source materials.

Photographic material makes up a significant portion of the collection (14.5 linear feet), and illustrates the breadth of Cosmos's documentation of New York City, capturing the avant-garde art and theater worlds, the people and streets, self-portraits, and numerous other subjects. There are images of named people and people at parties, of exhibitions and performances, of New York City streets and buildings, of a more personal and family nature, of artwork, and of miscellaneous subjects. There are also collected photographs, some of which are vintage. There is a large group of unidentified and unsorted negatives, slides, and contact sheets. Where they existed, labeling and descriptive notes have been preserved with the unidentified materials.

Artwork is also quite extensive (10.5 linear feet) and found in a variety of genre, format, and media. There is also a small subseries of artwork by others. One group of artwork consists of titled or named art projects and series, often executed in the form of series that spanned decades. This group includes Cosmos's Reciprocal project that incorporated his photographic work. For this project, he would photograph notable figures, including John Cage, Robert Scull, and others, and ask them to photograph him. There are also several folders of Cosmos's work focusing on photographer Diane Arbus.

A group of artwork identified as "compilations" consist primarily of photocopies of compiled presentations of documents, photographs, fragments, writings, drawings, printed materials and ephemera, and bits and pieces of Cosmos's titled work. These compilations were prepared by Cosmos for individuals in the art world to whom he was close. The original compilations were then photocopied and presented to the intended receiver. The subseries of compilations contains both originals and photocopied versions that do not always correlate with one another. Also found among the artwork are drawings, illustrations, a few paintings, collages, and sketchbooks by Cosmos. Artwork by others includes an artist book, drawings, a sketchbook, and prints by Milton Glaser, Alex Hay, Douglas Huebler, Marvin Israel, Ray Johnson, Ellsworth Kelly, and Eve Sonneman.

Found within the collection are three dimensional artifacts, including eight cameras and other items Cosmos saved and collected to incorporate into his photographs.

There is a large series of unpublished sound recordings and born-digital material, some of which is clearly identified and labeled, and some of which is unidentified. When known, labeling has been incorporated into the folder titles in the container inventory. Users should note that sound recordings that were clearly identified and associated with other projects were arranged in context with those related materials.

Printed material (series 5), photographic material (series 6), and artwork (series 7), include many photocopies. Cosmos used the photocopy process to make copies of his work to share with others, and as a creative form of art in itself, experimenting with tonality, collage, and the degeneration of images from repeated copying. Photocopies were also made of articles, newspapers, and various source material and ephemera that he collected. Many photocopies have descriptive labeling on the back. For some photographs and projects, photocopies are the only form of documentation located in the collection.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as nine series

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material and Personal Business Records, circa 1949-2011 (1 linear foot; Box 1, 44, OV 49)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1940s-2011 (.7 linear feet; Box 1-2)

Series 3: Writings, circa 1947-2000s (4.2 linear feet; Box 2-6, 44, OV 50-51)

Series 4: Teaching Files, 1970s-1980s (1.9 linear feet; Box 6-8, 44, OV 52)

Series 5: Printed Material, Published Sound, Video Recordings, 1894-2000s (8.3 linear feet; Box 8-13, 44-45, OV 53-73, RD 105)

Series 6: Photographic Material, circa 1860-2000s, bulk 1970-2010 (14.5 linear feet; Box 14-26, 46-47, OV 74-80)

Series 7: Artwork, 1947-2000s (10.5 linear feet; Box 27-34, 47-48, OV 81-104)

Series 8: Artifacts, 1960s-2000s (1.5 linear feet; Box 34-35)

Series 9: Sound Recordings and Born-Digital Material, 1950s-2000s (6.6 linear feet; Box 36-43, 0.367 GB; ER01-ER02)

Biographical / Historical:

Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone (1931-2011) was a documentary photographer, musical composer, and conceptual artist who worked in New York City.

Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone was named Cosime Sarchiapone at birth, and was also known as Cosmos, Cosmos Savage, and Richard Savage. His parents, Lois and Aldo, had seven children, including twins Cosmos and Damian. Born in Manhattan, Cosmos graduated from the La Guardia High School of Music and Art in New York City in 1948 and from Syracuse University in 1958 with a concentration in music composition and studio art. After college, he studied musical composition with John Cage at the New School in 1961, art history with Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University from 1963-1965, illustration with Marvin Israel from 1966-1971, design with Milton Glaser from 1968-1973, and photography with Diane Arbus from 1970-1971. He taught photography at the School of Visual Arts from 1974-1976, and at Parsons School of Design in 1980. In the early 1970s, he led experimental theater workshops at Columbia-Barnard University.

Between 1968-1969, Cosmos worked with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast at their Push Pin Studios, a graphic design and illustration studio.

Sometime between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Cosmos began photographing New York City, capturing the art and theater worlds, the people and streets, self-portraits, and numerous other subjects. As a freelance photographer for New York magazine (founded by Milton Glaser) and other mass-market publications, Cosmos photographed Andy Warhol and his circle, Halloween parties at the Waldorf, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon convention, the Jesus Joy Jubilee at Carnegie Hall, the Beat Poets' reunion and private parties attended by Hollywood actors and directors, often capturing the overlapping worlds of art, movies and music. Cosmos's photographs have been published in numerous books and publications. His work was featured in several exhibitions in the 1970s, including shows at the Jamie Gallery, the Fine Arts Building, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. But he created the bulk of his work for himself and much of it remains unpublished.

Throughout the 1970s, Cosmos documented the avant-garde art scene in New York City. He captured performances at The Kitchen and La Mama, the offices of New York magazine and Push Pin Studios, Tom O'Horgan's Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and much more. He photographed performances and installations at 112 Greene Street in SoHo, an interdisciplinary art space that nurtured the experiments of a number of now significant American artists, dancers and musicians, including Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, Suzanne Harris and Phillip Glass, all of whom were photographed by Cosmos. He also photographed numerous images of 112 Greene Street's sister space, Matta-Clark's FOOD, an artist-run eatery at the corner of Prince and Wooster Streets where exotic meals were offered up as both performance art and nourishment. Cosmos used his camera as a way to get close to artists he admired, including Diane Arbus, Milton Glaser, and Marvin Israel.

According to Milton Glaser, "Cosmos was a brilliant photographer who was never without a camera….He was always everywhere. In terms of documentation of that period, there was no one like him."

Cosmos often incorporated aspects of his photography into conceptual art pieces, including two serial works that Cosmos made from fragments of Diane Arbus' discarded photographs, transforming her iconic work. Many of Cosmos's conceptual art pieces often took the form of a series, and were continuously revisited. In Reciprocal, Cosmos photographed figures—including those he admired like John Cage, Meyer Schapiro, Robert Scull, and others—then asked each to photograph him. Many of Cosmos's art projects were based in photographic documentation of his "performances", as in Sheet Music, where he is seen tearing a white sheet outside Bloomingdale's during the 'white sale.' Cosmos's convictions about smoking, its hazards, and the nefarious actions of tobacco companies led to several related projects, among them, Photo Arrest, where Cosmos captured on camera people smoking illegally in hospitals, classrooms, grocery stores, and elevators.

Cosmos created scores for plays and dance performances, including Churchyard by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1970, and numerous Off-Off Broadway theater productions in the 1960s. He wrote an opera, Vox Humana #3. The opera is about three heroines of history: Antigone, Joan of Arc, and Patty Hearst, and synthesizes a variety of media, including music composition, stage direction, and video (Patty Hearst in Chains), into a four hour performance that was staged at La Mama in 1976 and The Kitchen in 1977.

Cosmos lived at Westbeth Artists' Community from 1970-2011, but had largely withdrawn from the world by the 2000s. Cosmos Sarchiapone died in 2011.

Provenance:

Donated to the Archives of American Art in 2015 by Tom Sarchiapone, Cosmos Sarchiapone's brother, via Catherine Morris, curator and friend of Cosmos.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate copy requires advance notice.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Composers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Conceptual artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art -- Study and teaching  Search this

Conceptual art  Search this

Music--New York (State)--New York  Search this

Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Photography -- Study and teaching  Search this

Photography--New York (State)--New York  Search this

Theater--New York (State)--New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Ephemera

Illustrations

Music

Photocopies

Photographs

Posters

Prints

Sketchbooks

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Citation:

Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone papers, circa 1860-2011, bulk 1940-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

AAA.sarccosm

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Cosmos Andrew Sarchiapone papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9bf441ea1-b8c9-46c4-a9ec-01ea133658fb

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-sarccosm

Collection Creator:

Gluckmann, Grigory, 1898-1973  Search this

Container:

Box 2, Folder 5

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

circa 1950s-1960s

Collection Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Collection Citation:

Grigory Gluckmann papers, 1888-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

See more items in:

Grigory Gluckmann papers

Grigory Gluckmann papers / Series 5: Photographs

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw965ab4e47-7b7b-40cb-a171-7031b045db0d

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-aaa-glucgrig-ref588

Creator:

DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997  Search this

Names:

WOWO (radio station).  Search this

Extent:

260 Cubic feet (approximately 1244 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Lithographs

Sound recordings

Phonograph records

Papers

Photographic prints

Sheet music

Photographs

Date:

1790-1980s

Summary:

Primarily published sheet music, plus some related ephemera. Originally included 781 boxes of American sheet music and assorted clippings, articles, photographs, etc.; also 93 boxes of 33-1/3 RPM phonograph records, 30 boxes of 45 RPM records, and 20 boxes of 78 RPM records

Scope and Contents:

Sam DeVincent organized his collection topically and the present organization is built upon his basic system. In the course of processing this huge collection organized into hundreds of topics, a set of more encompassing topical headings have been developed. For example, the series designation "transportation" gathers together DeVincent's topical headings of "automobiles," "railroads," "bicycles," etc. Each of these larger, conceptual, headings is considered a series and is given a series number. Transportation is series number 1. Each series will be described separately and a composite index will lead researchers into the appropriate series. Terminology is consistent with Library of Congress Subject Headings whenever possible.

Within each series, the topical headings used by DeVincent, or a heading of similar level and type, receive sub-series numbers. For example, "railroads" is part of series 1, transportation, and is given the sub-series number 7. Therefore, "railroads" is designated as 1.7.

All of the sheet music has been placed in folders (from 1 to 45 items per folder) and given a letter of the alphabet. Within each folder, the music is arranged alphabetically by song title. A researcher searching the index for the song Wabash Cannonball (note that very few song titles are indexed) would be directed to "1.7 V." The researcher would then turn to the railroad section of the container list (1.7) and look for folder V and read the folder description.

Most of the sheet music is either a solo piano or a piano/vocal arrangement. There are very few orchestral or band parts and very little music for instruments other than piano. When the word "instrumental" is used in folder descriptions and titles, the music referred to has no lyrics and is for solo piano. Music for other instruments or ensemble parts will be mentioned explicitly in the folder description and usually indexed. Also, duplicates have not been kept in the file unless the sheet is particularly old or fragile (in which case one duplicate was kept if available). Sheets with slightly different covers, different ink colors, or variations in advertising matter are not considered duplicates.

In addition to the sheet music, the collection includes ephemera files corresponding to each series. These files contain items such as lists of sheet music, DeVincent's correspondence with other collectors, wire service printouts received at the radio station where he worked, his notes to be used for cross-indexing ("see also" references), and miscellaneous items relating to the topic. Some materials kept by DeVincent have not been incorporated into the ephemera files, for example most of the popular magazines, Fort Wayne Indiana newspaper clippings about non-musical topics, and some advertising matter.

The ephemera files are numbered with the same series and sub-series numbers as the sheet music. For example bicycles are 1.3 in both the music and ephemera files. A description of the ephemera file follows the sheet music container list. It is followed by an index to the entire series. Many topical headings not directly concerned with the topic of the series are indexed (for example "Women, images of" is an important topic in the bicycle sub-series). The author of each series description made the decisions about topics for indexing.

Series 1: Transportation:

Dates -- circa 1800-1980

Contents -- Series 1: Transportation contains circa 3,900 pieces of sheet music documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards transportation technology in the United States.1.1: Aeronautics1.2: Automobiles1.3: Bicycles1.4: Boats and Boating1.5: Horse-Drawn Vehicles1.6: Motorcycles1.7: Railroads1.8: Urban Transportation1.9 Ephemera

Series 2: Armed Forces:

Dates -- circa 1810-1980

Contents -- Series 2: Armed Forces contains circa 3,400 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the military history of the United States; there are only a handful of foreign imprints. 2.1: Pre-Civil War2.2: Civil War2.3: Pre-World War I2.4: World War I2.5: World War II2.6: Post -World War2.7: Naval History2.8: Marine CorpsEphemera

Series 3: African-American Music:

Dates -- circa 1828-1980

Contents -- Series 3: African-American Music contains circa 7,800 pieces of sheet music and folios dating from the 1820s to the 1980s; most of the material dates from after 1890. 3.1: Minstrel Shows and Blackface Entertainers3.2: Uncle Tom's Cabin3.3: African-American Folk-songs and Spirituals3.4: Songs about African-American/Vocal Ragtime3.5: Instrumental and Ragtime Music3.6: Ragtime Composers and Publishers3.7: Blues and Jazz Music3.8: Composers and PerformersEphemera

Series 4: Songwriters:

Dates -- 1817-1982

Contents -- Series 4: Songwriters: The song sheets associated with each songwriter in this series are generally arranged in the following order: General Songs; Ethnic Songs; Armed Conflict Songs or other Topical Headings; Ragtime; Instrumental; Musical Theater Production Songs; Motion Picture Production Songs; Specialized Song Sheets/Editions; Professional/Artist Copy Song Sheets; and Folios/Volumes. List: 4.1 - 4.217Ephemera

Series 5: Politics and Political Movements:

Dates -- circa 1817-1982

Contents -- Series 5: Politics and Political Movements contains circa 1,565 pieces of sheet music and song folios documenting the political history of the United States. 5.1: Patriotic Music5.2: Politicians and Political Figures5.3: Politics and Political Parties5.4: Ku Klux Klan5.5: Prohibition and Temperance5.6: Trade Union5.7: Women's RightsEphemera

Series 6: Moving Pictures and Movie Stars:

Dates -- 1911-1986

Contents -- Series 6: Moving Pictures and Movie Stars: 6.1 Academy Award Songs6.2 Child Stars6.3 Dance Folios6.4 Disney Productions and Other Cartoon Movies6.5 Female Stars6.6 Male Stars6.7 Movie Music6.8 Silent Films6.9 Songs About the MoviesEphemera

Series 7: Sports:

Dates -- 1834-1983

Contents -- Series 7: Sports contains 1,254 pieces of sheet music and song folios. Most of the sheet music is either piano or piano/ vocal arrangements. 7.1: Baseball, 1860-19767.2: Boxing, 1893-19827.3: Fishing, 1847-19627.4: Football, 1894-1978; undated7.5: Gambling and Games of Chance, 1891-19807.6: Golf, 1893-19537.7: Horse Racing, 1899-19687.8: Hunting, 1834-19517.9: Ice Skating, 1861 -1978; undated7.10: Olympics, 1932-19837.11: Ping Pong, 1901-19027.12: Roller Skating, 1871-1980; undated7.13: Skiing, 1908-19717.14: Sleighs and Sledding, 1846- 1967; undated7.15: Sports, Miscellaneous, 1866-19777.16: Tennis, 1893-1914, 1951Ephemera

Series 8: Geography:

Dates -- 1794-1987

Contents -- Series 8: Geography is divided into three sections: the United States, Foreign Countries, and Natural Features. The more than 13,000 sheets date from 1830-1987 and include undated sheets that are probably earlier. The series comprises 33 cu. ft. 8.1-8.49: United States, 1830-1987 (States)8.50-8.51: United States, 1830-1987 (U. S. Regions)8.53-8.89: Foreign Countries, 1794-1982 (Afghanistan - Italy)8.90-8.126: Foreign Countries, 1794-1982 (Japan - Vietnam) & (Foreign Regions)8.127-8.128: Natural Features, 1834-1980Ephemera

Series 9: Domestic and Community Life:

Dates -- 1827-1986; undated

Contents -- Series 9: Domestic and Community Life documents family, love, marriage, home, and social organizations. It does not include Health or Business items, which are included in separate series. Certain issues, such as women's rights, are in Series 2: Politics and Political Movements. 9.1: Adult Family Members, 1836-1985; undated9.2: Children, 1855-1971; undated9.3: Dolls, Stories, Toys, 1860-1984; undated9.4: Songs About and Images of Men and Women, 1828-1972; undated9.5: Home, Neighborhood, and Immigrants/Refugees, 1830-1980; undated9.6: Love, 1827-1982; undated9.7: Marriage, 1829-1976; undated9.8: Friendship and Social Organizations, 1838-1982; undated9.9: Age, Death, and Dying, 1834-1951; undated9.10: Domestic Art and Clothing, 1843-1978; undated9.11:Albums, Lockets, and Memories, 1857-1952; undatedEphemera

Series 10: Sacred Music and Religious Themes:

Dates -- 1822-1986, undated

Contents -- Series 10: Sacred Music and Religious Themes contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music, much of which is traditional Christian music, but also documents popular attitudes towards religion in the United States. Note that the Christmas and Easter subseries include their secular aspects. 10.1, Adam, Eve, and Eden, 1882-197110.2, Angels, 1849-1961, undated10.3, Bells and Chimes, 1848-1956, undated10.4, Biblical Characters and Stories, 1876-1986, undated10.5, Cathedral, Chapel, Church, 1866-1966, undated10.6, Choir, 1880-193710.7, Christmas, 1828-1984, undated10.8, Devil and Satan, 1865-1979, undated10.9, Easter, 1872-1975, undated10.10, Evolution, 1925-196310.11, Heaven, 1866-1975, undated10.12, Inspirational Singers, 1868-197710.13, Madonna, The Virgin Mary, 1855-1953, undated10.14, Miracles, 1929-195910.15, Mormons, 1895-1933, undated10.16, Paradise, 1900-1925, undated10.17, Pilgrim, 1868-1938, undated10.18, Psalms, 1884-1980, undated10.19, Quakers, 1899-1940, undated10.20, Rosary, 1897-195310.21, General Sacred Songs, 1822-1982, undatedEphemera, 1899-1986

Series 11: Entertainment:

Dates -- 1841-1984, undated

Contents -- Series 11: Entertainment contains more than 12,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards entertainers and entertainment in the United States. Note that movies and some musical entertainment are also covered in Series 6, Moving Pictures and Movie Stars, and in Series 16, Country, Western, and Folk Music. Blind musicians and performers are in Series 17. 11.1: Early Troupes & Bandmasters, 1841-1944, undated11.2: Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1905-1964, undated11.3: Novelty Bands, 1901-195211.4: Male Singers (Individual), 1846-198111.5: Female Singers (Individual), 1845-197111.6: Duos and Groups (Male and Mixed), 1903-198111.7: Female Duos and Groups, 1896-196611.8: Child Entertainers, 1852-1927, undated11.9: Impersonators, 1904-198211.10: Actors and Comedians, 1853-198211.11: Theater, 1873-1973, undated11.12: Juke Box, Nickelodeon, 1923-198111.13: Phonograph, Records, Tapes, 1878-197111.14: Radio, Transistor, Wireless, 1898-198411.15: Television, 1931-198711.16: Circus, Fair, Zoo

Series 12: Plants and Animals:

Dates -- 1831-1984, undated

Contents -- Series 12: Plants and Animals contains approximately 4,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards plants and animals in the United States. 12.1, Trees, 1833-1969, undated12.2, Plants and Flowers, 1840-1979, undated12.3, Animals, 1831-1984, undated12.4, Fish, Mermaids, and Aquatic Species, 1832-1978, undated12.5, Birds, 1834-1976, undated12.6, Insects and Spiders, 1853-1968, undated

Series 13: Agriculture, Business, and Law:

Dates -- 1827-1985, undated

Contents -- Series 13, Agriculture, Business, and Law contains approximately 3,300 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards business, commerce, farming and food, finances, labor, law, and social order in the United States. The series comprises nine cubic feet, plus two boxes of ephemera. 13.1, Business and Jobs, 1927-1982, undated13.2, Farming, Food, and Tobacco, 1836-1986, undated13.3, Finances and Valuables, 1841-1982, undated13.4, Law and Social Order, 1858-1972, undated13.5, Public Services and Utilities, 1836-1984, undatedEphemera, 1901-1987, undated

Series 14: Calendar, Time, and Weather:

Dates -- 1811-1980, undated

Contents -- Series 14, Calendar, Time, and Weather contains approximately 1,800 pieces of sheet music, documenting attitudes toward and consequences of natural events. The four seasons comprise the larger part. 14.1, Years, 1880-1945, undated14.2, Seasons, 1850-1978, undated14.3, Months, 1855-1978, undated14.4, Days of the Week, 1853-196514.5, Clocks and Time, 1844-1967, undated14.6, Weather, 1911-1980, undatedEphemera, 1952-1982, undated

Series 15: Holidays and Celebrations:

Dates -- 1847-1982, undated

Contents -- Series 15, Holidays and Celebrations contains approximately 500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards holidays, celebrations, and travel in the United States. Note that Christmas items are in Series 10, Sacred Music and Religious Themes, subseries 7. 15.1, Holiday, Travel, Vacation, 1866-198215.2, Carnival, 1847-1937, undated15.3, Mardi Gras, 1892-1958, undated15.4, Masquerade, 1900-1973, undated.15.5, Halloween, 1853-1962, undated.15.6, Thanksgiving, 1853-1974, undated.15.7, New Year, 1852-1970, undated15.8, Park, 1869-1969, undated15.9, Picnic, 1854-1964, undated15.10, Rolling Chairs, 1905-1923, undatedEphemera

Series 16: Country, Western, and Folk Music:

Dates -- 1839-1986, undated

Contents -- Series 16: Country, Western, and Folk Music, contains approximately 11,500 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards country, western, and folk music in the United States. The dates always refer to copyright of the music and not to the subject on the cover, songwriter's life, or other events. There are 78 boxes of sheet music and 16 boxes of ephemera. 16.1, Individual Male Entertainers, 1911-1983, undated16.2, Individual Female Entertainers, 1902-1986, undated16.3, Duos and Groups, 1910-1981, undated16.4, The West, 1939-198416.5, Barn Dance, Fiddle Tunes, and "Turkey in the Straw," 1878-197516.6, Blues, Feuding, Hillbilly, Honky Tonk, and Yodeling, 1885-1975, undated16.7, Miscellaneous Songs, 1913-198316.8, Folios, 1914-1969Ephemera --subseries 1-7 and subseries 9-10

Series 17: The Human Condition--Physical, Mental, Behavioral:

Dates -- 1833-1987

Contents -- Series 17, The Human Condition--Physical, Mental, Behavioral contains approximately 1,000 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards the human condition in the United States. 17.1, Physical Health, 1833-1982, undated17.2, Happiness, 1845-1978, undated17.3, Crazy, Foolish, 1904-1973, undated17.4, Rubes, 1888-1938Ephemera

Series 18: Dance:

Dates -- 1812-1978, undated

Contents -- Series 18, Dance contains approximately 3,330 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards dance in the United States. 18.1, General Songs about Dance, 1882-1967, undated18.2, Ballroom Dancers and Dance Institute, 1840-1951, undated18.3, Charleston, 1923-196418.4, Fox Trot, 1913-193218.5, Galop, 1842-1924, undated18.6, Gavotte, 1874-1978, undated18.7, Jigs and Reels, 1891-1951, undated18.8, Lancers, 1857-1903, undated18.9, Maxixe, 1913-1914, undated18.10, Mazurka, 1854-1940, undated18.11, Minuet, 1875-1968, undated18.12, One Step, 1910-192118.13, Polka, 1845-1975, undated18.14, Quadrilles, 1831-1883, undated18.15, Redowa, 1853-1908, undated18.16, Schottische, 1850-1944, undated18.17, Skirt Dance, 1891-1893, undated18.18, Square Dance, 1926-196418.19, Tango, 1909-195218.20, Three Step, 1903-191318.21, Two Step, 1894-192518.22, Varsova, 1851-1917, undated18.23, Waltz, 1812-1968, undated18.24, Folios, 1888-1953, undatedEphemera

Series 19: Art and Literature:

Dates -- 1830-1977, undated

Contents -- Series 19, Art and Literature contains approximately 860 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting popular attitudes towards art and literature in the United States. 19.1, Art and Artists, 1839-1977, undated19.2, Cover Artists and Early Lithograph Covers, 1830-1931, undated19.3, Photography, 1848-196619.4, Carving and Whittling, 1906-194719.5, Books, Diary, and Stories, 1849-198319.6, Poets and Poetry, 1836-1969, undated Ephemera Index

Series 20: Newspapers:

Dates -- 1844-1968, undated

Contents -- Series 20, Newspapers, 1844-1968, contains materials documenting the business of and popular attitudes towards newspapers in the United States. 20.1, Songs about Advertising, the News and the Press20.2, Songs published by Newspapers or about serialized stories20.3, Songs about Newsboys and Newsgirls20.4, Cartoons, Cartoonists, and Comics20.5, Newspaper and Magazine SupplementsEphemera

Series 21: Musical Instruments:

Dates -- 1824-1981 and undated

Contents -- Series 21, Musical Instruments, 1824-1981, undated, contains approximately 4,900 pieces of sheet music and other materials documenting the development of and popular attitudes towards the playing of music in the United States. Numerous teaching manuals are included.21.1, Accordion, 1902-1964, undated21.2, Banjo, 1853-1975, undated21.3, Cello, 1891-1935, undated21.4, Clarinet, 1905-1958, undated21.5, Concertina, 1905-1941, undated21.6, Cornet, 1848-1924, undated21.7, Double Bass, 1939-195521.8, Drums, 1867-1971, undated21.9, Fiddle, 1893-1981, undated21.10, Flute, 1847-1936, undated21.11, Guitar, 1824-1977, undated21.12, Harmonica, 1904-1974, undated21.13, Harp, 1866-1976, undated21.14, Hurdy Gurdy, 1899-196921.15, Mandolin, 1843-1954, undated21.16, Music Boxes, 1848-1979, undated21.17, Organ, 1856-1973, undated21.18, Saxophone, 1907-195321.19, Tambourine, 1854-196021.20, Trombone, 1906-195721.21, Trumpet, 1904-1945, undated21.22, Ukulele, 1915-1964, undated21.23, Violin, 1843-1957, undated21.24, Zither, 1970-1951, undated21.25, Various Instruments, 1835-1968, undatedEphemera

Series 22: American Indian:

Contents -- Series 22: American Indian

Dates -- 1899-1975

Series 23: Universe:

Contents -- Series 23: Universe

Dates -- 1842-1970

Series 24: Education:

Contents -- Series 24: Education

Dates -- 1834-1964

Series 25: Vocal:

Contents -- Series 25: Vocal

Series 26: General Sheet Music:

Contents -- Series 26: General Sheet Music

Series 27: Gypsies:

Contents -- Series 27: Gypsies

Series 28: Opera:

Contents -- Series 28: Opera

Series 29: Piano:

Contents -- Series 29: Piano

Series 30: Marches and Quicksteps:

Contents -- Series 30: Marches and Quicksteps

Series 31: Dialects:

Contents -- Series 31: Dialects

Series 32: Christopher Columbus:

Contents -- Series 32: Christopher Columbus

Series 33: Reveries:

Contents -- Series 33: Reveries

Series 34: Indiana Publishers:

Contents -- Series 34: Indiana Publishers

Series 35: Sam DeVincent Personal Papers:

Contents -- Series 35: Sam DeVincent Personal Papers

Series 36: Folios and Songbooks:

Contents -- Series 36: Folios and Songbooks

Series 37: Other Materials:

Contents -- Series 37: Other Materials

Dates -- 1853-1976

Additional Topical Series:

An updated list of DeVincent topical series is available via the Smithsonian finding aid portal.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into topical series.

Biographical note:

Sam DeVincent was born January 8, 1918 and lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana for most of his life. DeVincent collected sheet music and related materials during most of his lifetime. His interest included both the music and the cover art. Because he had little money to support his collecting, DeVincent gathered most of his material through careful searches and travel.

DeVincent and his wife used much of the music he collected in their musical group "Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers." The group performed regularly on radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1945 to 1955. After 1955 (and the emergence of rock and roll), "Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers" played only once a week on the radio station. At this time, Mr. DeVincent worked as an all-night disc jockey at WOWO. In 1960 he became music director and music librarian at the station. His position as music librarian helped him to add to his collection, especially the phonograph recordings (many promotional copies are included).

DeVincent retired from WOWO in 1983. He and his wife continued to perform publicly including a weekly radio show on WOWO. The National Museum of American History acquired the DeVincent collection in the spring of 1988. Sam DeVincent passed away November 29, 1997.

Materials in Other Organizations:

Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music contains approximately 24,000 pieces of sheet music, songbooks, and folios. DeVincent arranged his collection into categories based on either personal names of musicians or performers or on subjects he defined that were as diverse as the American Red Cross and Halloween. The Lilly Library has maintained this arrangement.

All the sheet music in the DeVincent collection is listed in the IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana: Lilly Library web site. Digitized images are available for some items.

Materials in the Archives Center, National Museum of American History:

Donald J. Stubblebine Collection of Musical Theater and Motion Picture Sheet Music and Reference Material, 1843-2010 (AC1211)

Provenance:

This collection was purchased by the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 from Sam and Nancy Lee DeVincent.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Musical revue, comedy, etc  Search this

Music -- United States  Search this

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Transportation -- Music  Search this

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Armed Forces -- Music  Search this

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Politics -- Music  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lithographs

Sound recordings

Phonograph records

Papers

Photographic prints

Sheet music

Photographs -- 19th century

Citation:

The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0300

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85004ad89-10d9-4f8e-aecc-60a0451a3399

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0300

Creator:

DC Cowboys Dance Company  Search this

Extent:

7.5 Cubic feet (22 boxes, 3 oversize folders)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Articles

Photographs

Correspondence

Press releases

Business records

Dvds

Financial records

Compact discs

Date:

undated

1994-2012

Summary:

The records of the DC Cowboys Dance Company, an all-male, gay, non-profit dance company based in Washington, DC. that was active from 1994-2012. They peformed nationally and internationally live and on television, "celebrating diversity through dance."

Scope and Contents:

The DC Cowboys Dance Company Records contain the business and financial papers of the company, such as memoranda and correspondence; choreography routines; printed materials such as press releases and articles; fundraising materials; photographs; audiovisual materials; and the pre-recorded music used for their various dance routines. The records are arranged chronologically in three series.

Series 1: Company Files, 1994-2013, undated, is arranged chronologically by year and maintains the original order received from the donor. The files cover the entire life of the company and its peformances within the United States as well as internationally. The files contain correspondence, contracts, dance routines, fundraising initiatives, event information and advertising materials, travel and lodging arrangements, tourist information, and photographs.

Series 2: Financial, 1996-2011, undated, is arranged chronologically. The files contain receipts, money receipt books, financial statements, balance sheets and those materials related to the financial aspect of running the company.

Series 3: Audiovisual, 1994-2012, undated, contains compact discs (189) of pre-recorded music used for the company's various dance routines. The music was prepared for each booking and most often identified with the title of the booking and the date. Much of the music on these discs is under copyright since they are recordings done by original artists or professional covers of songs that were contemporary with the company's performance during any given year. There are also DVDs (five) detailing the production of varous fund raising DC Cowboys calendars and one audio cassette tape.

Arrangement:

This collection is divided into three series.

Series 1: Company Files, 1994-2013, undated

Series 2: Financial, 1996-2011, undated

Series 3: Audiovisual, 1994-2012, undated

Biographical / Historical:

"History of the DC Cowboys Dance Company - Celebrating diversity through dance"

The DC Cowboys Dance Company, an all-male, gay dance company, entertained audiences around the world from 1994 to 2012. Internationally acclaimed, the DC Cowboys specialized in providing exciting, high-energy, jazz-style, dance entertainment which spanned all musical genres, from contemporary country to club dance party, pop, to classic Broadway numbers for all types of occasions. Shows were customized to the venue—both gay-specific and mainstream events—and featured anywhere from one song to multiple sets of three to four songs each. Combining a little traditional country-western with jazz, musical theater and a masculine sex appeal, the DC Cowboys' high-energy choreography made the company one of the most-sought after gay dance groups in the world.

Founder and Artistic Director Kevin Platte started the dance company in August 1994 after seeing a similar gay, country-western dance group in California. Platte recruited 11 dancers—mostly friends—from a Washington, D.C., gay, country-western bar named Remington's. He approached the best dancers based on watching them two-step and line-dance at the bar. The dancers formed the troupe for the sole purpose of performing at the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association's (ASGRA) annual rodeo in Washington, D.C., in September 1994.

Platte thought the performance would be a one-time event. But based on an overwhelming reception, the dancers decided to continue the group. This required weekly rehearsals, the creation of a dance "repertoire" and a larger commitment from the dancers. Of the original 12 members, only six were up to the task. These six original members then had to find more dancers and identify other performance venues. Mainstay venues soon included the Capital Pride Festival every June and the Atlantic Stampede Gay Rodeo event every September.

In September 1995, Metro Weekly placed them on the cover of their magazine, giving them greater exposure and more clout. The Cowboys used this coverage as a catalyst to build the brand and identity. All the while, the DC Cowboys remained volunteers and amateurs, performing solely for the love of it. Each dancer maintained a "day job," and the group only rehearsed in the evenings once or twice a week. As the warmer months seemed to be their busiest, the dancers would use the colder months to build up the repertoire and practice. Every year, rehearsals would cease for the months of November and December for the existing dancers. However new recruits that were successful in the annual auditions attended "bootcamp" rehearsals during those months to learn some of the existing repertoire. In January, the existing and new members started rehearsing together as the new season began.

During the early years, the dancers paid for all expenses out of their own pockets, and monthly dues were collected to pay for group expenses. The group would often pay for the opportunity to perform. To supplement these expenses, the group began fundraising through a monthly bar night at different gay nightclubs. Once their reputation grew, venues and events began to pay for the company's entertainment services and patron club members donated funds to support the organization and their mission. These funds allowed the organization to pay for all of their expenses including dancer costuming. In addition, the group sold merchandise which included T-shirts, performance DVDs as well as their sexy DC Cowboys calendars. Three of the more popular calendars featured the dancers without clothes in artistic poses and included the "making of the calendar" DVD.

In 1996, Platte added a charitable element to the organization. He created a mission statement which said the company would provide free entertainment to any HIV/AIDS charitable organization. Over the years, the company also directly raised funds for HIV/AIDS organizations by sharing the profits of their calendar sales. The DC Cowboys raised millions of dollars through performances for national and local non-profit organizations such as: Washington, D.C. AIDS Ride; Washington, D.C. AIDS Walk; Chase Brexton Clinic of Baltimore, Maryland; Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry; Human Rights Campaign; Whitman Walker Clinic of Washington, D.C.; Food and Friends of Washington, D.C.; Mautner Project; Gay Latino Benefits in Metro D.C.; Harford County AIDS/Cancer Benefit, Maryland; NYFD Benefit for the New York City Fire Department.

In 1996, the company received a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, honoring the company for its valued contribution to the Washington, D.C. arts community. The company always maintained a tax-deductible status as a 501c3 non-profit organization with a small board of directors.

During their 18-year tenure, the DC Cowboys provided an outlet for gay artists and performers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The company included 85 dancers, eight choreographers and three stage-managers. The company performed at 458 events in five countries. The DC Cowboys' crowd-pleasing, sexy dance style had been described as "Will Rogers Follies meets Bob Fosse." The group famously described themselves on America's Got Talent in 2008 as "Think Brokeback meets Broadway," which became a popular line echoed around the world. Their growth and popularity were attributed to their unique and high quality entertainment which was often copied in other cities but never equalled. In addition the dancers were talented, good-looking men who were friendly and approachable to their many fans. Their farewell season tour in 2012 visited all of their favorite performance venues and locations around the world and was dedicated to their fans who were instrumental to their success.

Typical performance venues included Pride Festivals in New York City, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Charlotte, North Carolina; Headliners on the Gay Rodeo circuit in Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, San Diego, Atlanta, Chicago, Calgary, and Texas; Halloween in New Orleans; Mr. Gay All-American Finals; Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, Washington, D.C., concerts and events; Whitman Walker Volunteer Appreciation at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C.; PFLAG's Gala Dinner, Washington, D.C.; HRC (Human Rights Campaign) Leadership Dinner cruise aboard the Spirit of Washington, Washington, D.C.; Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Washington, D.C. - special reception for major donors; Annual Chef's Best Dinner & Auction for Food and Friends, Washington, D.C..

Performance highlights included America's Got Talent television show, season 3, NBC, semifinalists (2008); Closing Ceremonies of the Gay Games VII at Wrigley Field in Chicago (2006); RSVP's Caribbean Fantasy gay cruise (2005); Arts grant recipient from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts (1996);The Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary (2009--012); Dales' Great Getaway television show, ITV London, England (2012); The Podge and Rodge television show, RTE, Dublin, Ireland (2010)."

Source

This history of the DC Cowboys Dance Company was supplied by its founder, Kevin Platte.

Provenance:

The collection was donated by Kevin P. Platte, founder and Artistic and Executive Director of DC Cowboys Dance Company in 2013.

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research use. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs, negatives, and slides.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions. Fees for commercial reproduction.

Topic:

Gays  Search this

Gay business enterprises  Search this

Homosexuality  Search this

Cowboys  Search this

Dance companies  Search this

Dance  Search this

Genre/Form:

Articles -- 1990-2000

Photographs -- 21st century

Correspondence -- 1990-2000

Press releases -- 1990-2000

Business records -- 1990-2000

Articles -- 21st century

DVDs

Photographs -- 1990-2000

Financial records -- 21st century

Financial records -- 1990-2000

Correspondence -- 21st century

Compact discs

Press releases -- 21st century

Business records -- 21st century

Citation:

DC Cowboys Dance Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1312

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Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8fcfb748b-0411-4008-8f12-3a8587b6f82d

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1312

Life Form:

Epiphytic

Bloom Characteristics:

White flower has faint pink dots on lip edge.

Range:

hybrid

Topic:

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Common Name:

Cymbidium clonal hybrid

Group:

[vascular plants]

Class:

Equisetopsida

Subclass:

Magnoliidae

Superorder:

Lilianae

Order:

Asparagales

Family:

Orchidaceae

Subfamily:

Epidendroideae

Genus:

Cymbidium

Accession Number:

2010-1405H

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Smithsonian Gardens

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax7bcd78884-50a4-420a-9711-902537d3644e

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:ofeo-sg_2010-1405H

Editor:

Mithlo, Nancy Marie  Search this

Writer of foreword:

Martin, Robert  Search this

Subject:

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts  Search this

Institute of American Indian Arts  Search this

Physical description:

xvii, 196 pages, 76 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (chiefly color), portraits 26 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

United States

États-Unis

Date:

2020

Topic:

Indian art--Study and teaching  Search this

Art criticism--Study and teaching  Search this

Critique d'art--Étude et enseignement  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1159621