Finding Aid for the Maud Allan Papers, 1910-1934 LSC.2038
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Title: Maud Allan papers
Creator:
Allan, Maud
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2038
Physical Description:
1 linear feet
( 2 boxes and 1 oversize box.)
Date (inclusive): 1910-1934
Abstract: Maud Allan (1883-1956) was a interpretive dancer. She made her performing debut in Vienna (1903) and was best known for her
solo performance in
The vision of Salome (1908). She toured India (1913), Southeast Asia (1913 and 1923), South America (1919-1920), and the U.S. The collection contains
manuscripts, photographs, postcard albums, books, ephemera, and a scrapbook related to Allan's life and career.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, purchase, 1965.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Maud Allan Papers (Collection 2038). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Maud Allan was born in Toronto, Canada in 1883; raised in San Francisco, California; performing debut, Vienna, 1903; best
known solo performance,
The vision of Salome, 1908; toured India in 1913, Southeast Asia in 1913 and 1923, South America from 1919 to 1920, and the U.S.; had a school
in England beginning in 1928; died in Los Angeles, October 7, 1956.
Scope and Content
Collection contains manuscripts, photographs, postcard albums, books, ephemera, and a scrapbook related to the life and career
of Canadian-born interpretive dancer Maud Allan. Correspondence in a letter book represents correspondence by her agent, W.
Angus MacLeod. Some books in the collection were presentation copies made to Allan, while others are from her library. The
postcard album is made up of postcards sent to Allan.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Manuscripts, ephemera, and books (Box 1).
- Photograph albums and books (Box 2).
- Scrapbook and postcard album (Box 3).
Online Items Available
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women dancers -- Archives.
Allan, Maud--Archives
MacLeod, W. Angus -- Correspondence
box 1
Maud Allan and her art. England
1911.
General Physical Description note: 12 leaves. 26 cm. A dance program.
box 1
Letter book of Maud Allan's India and Far East tour. v.p.
1913-14.
General Physical Description note: 179 leaves. 25 cm. Carbon copies of holograph correspondence. Bound in grey cardboard cover.
Scope and Contents note
Most of the correspondence is by her agent, W. Angus MacLeod.
Presentation Copies to/or Books Owned by Maud Allan
box 1
Plays of gods and men;
The tents of Arabs;
The laughter of the Gods;
The queen's enemies; and
A night at an inn. New York: G.P. Putnam's Son's [].
1917
box 1
Lady precious stream. An old Chinese play done into English according to its traditional style. With a preface by Lascelles Abercrombie. London:
Methuen & Company, Limited [].
1934
box 1
Rhythm, music and education. Translated from the French by Harold Rubinstein. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
1921.
box 1
The sunken bell. A fairy play in five acts. By Gerhart Hauptmann. Freely rendered into English verse by Charles Henry Meltzer. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company [].
1899
box 1
Dance as an art form. Its history and development. New York: A.S. Barnes and Company
1933.
box 1
Margaret Morris dancing. A book of pictures by Fred Daniels. With an introduction and outline of her method by Margaret Morris.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited [].
n.d.
box 2
The unchastened woman. A comedy. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Company [].
1916
box 2
Mimes et ballet grecs. Paris: Librairie Léon Vanier, éditeur
1908.
box 3
1 postcard album (several of the postcards are addressed to Maud Allan).
box 3
1 scrapbook album (compiled of postcards gathered while on a personal tour of Europe in ).
1927
box 2
1 album of photgraphs of Maud Allan and friends.
General Physical Description note: Bound in green cover.
box 2
1 album of photographs of Maud Allan and friends in Africa.
General Physical Description note: Bound in black cover.
box 2
1 album of photographs of Maud Allan at grave of Cecil Rhodes.
General Physical Description note: Bound in black cover.
box 2
1 album of photographs of Maud Allan and friends on their India and Far mast tour. Photographs taken by J.W. Mitchell.
General Physical Description note: Bound in black cover.
