Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Federal Theatre Project dance photographs.
BANC PIC 1981.087--PICLOCAL
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
Federal Theatre Project dance photographsCreator/Contributor:
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), creatorCreator/Contributor:
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)Abstract:
Photos are of the performance of a dance based on Lawrence Gellert's Negro songs of protest, in which Tamiris was the choreographer
and principal danseuse. The performance was part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Theatre Project. Includes some
related clippings.
Date:
approximately 1935 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Dance -- United States -- Photographs
African American dance -- Photographs
Danse -- États-Unis -- Photographies
Danses noires américaines -- Photographies
African American dance
Dance
United States
Gellert, Lawrence -- 1898-1979
Note:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographers unknown.
Typed captions.
Transferred from the Lawrence Gellert papers (BANC MSS 81/99).
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Clippings.
Physical Description:
photoprint
19 photographic prints : black and white ; 5 x 7 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1981.087--PICLOCAL