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Collection Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection

Collection Items

Photo, Print, Drawing
[Katherine Dunham, three-quarter length portrait, in costume for play] 1 photographic print.
- Contributor: Valente, Alfredo
- Date: 1945
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[Katherine Dunham, full-length portrait, standing, facing front with her daughter Marie Christine boarding airplane in New York] 1 photographic print.
- Date: 1962
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[Katherine Dunham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in costume for dance revue "Bamboche"] 1 photographic print.
- Date: 1962
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Katherine Dunham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] 1 photographic print.
- Contributor: Twachtman, Phyllis
- Date: 1956
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[Katherine Dunham, dancer, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, wearing dance costume] 1 photographic print.
- Date: 1956
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Katherine Dunham in "Tropical Revue" Martin Beck Theatre 1 photographic print. | Photograph shows Katherine Dunham, dancer, full-length portrait, facing right, wearing dance costume.
- Contributor: Valente, Alfredo
- Date: 1943
Photo, Print, Drawing
Tropical ballet tries classic New York, N.Y. --a group of the Katherine Dunham dancers are shown in mid-air during a rehearsal of the classical ballet, "Mozart's Sonata in D Major," which they … 1 photographic print.
- Date: 1946
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Katherine Dunham's first ballet teacher, Ludmila Speranzeva
- Date: 1920
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Katherine Dunham and her students
- Date: 1920
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Katherine Dunham and her husband, John Pratt in an undated photograph
- Date: 1920
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Marie-Christine, adopted by Katherine Dunham and her husband John Pratt in 1949
- Date: 1949
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Katherine Dunham and student at Southern Illinois University, c.1960s
- Date: 1960
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Katherine Dunham in a 1960s publicity photograph
- Date: 1960
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Katherine Dunham in a 1952 photograph of Floyd's Guitar Blues
- Date: 1952
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Katherine Dunham in Le Jazz Hot, originally presented in 1939
- Date: 1939
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Katherine Dunham at the Theâtre de Paris in 1948
- Contributor: Raymond Voinquel
- Date: 1948
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Katherine Dunham in the 1943 Twentieth Century Fox Picture Stormy Weather
- Date: 1943
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Katherine Dunham and company perform in the 1942 Universal Pictures Co., Inc. film, Pardon my Sarong
- Date: 1942
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Katherine Dunham in the 1940 Broadway hit production of Cabin in the Sky, co-choreographed by Dunham and George Balanchine
- Date: 1940
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Katherine Dunham in a c.1950s photograph of Barrelhouse
- Date: 1950
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Eleanor St. Ann, Marvel Martin, Lucille Ellis, and Antonio Rodrigues in a c.1950s photograph of Katherine Dunham's Samba
- Date: 1950
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Katherine Dunham in Tango
- Contributor: Basabé, Dorien
- Date: 1920
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Katherine Dunham and her company in the 1936 work, Fantasie Negre
- Contributor: Basabé, Dorien
- Date: 1936
Photo, Print, Drawing
Katherine Dunham in an undated photograph as Woman with a Cigar from Tropics
- Contributor: Valenti, Alfredo
- Date: 1920
Photo, Print, Drawing
A 1949 photograph of Katherine Dunham, Doris Duke, and Porfirico Rubirosa in Egypt
- Date: 1949