Isadora Duncan

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Throughout NYPL's research collections, dance images are available for study. Since 1944, a special unit devoted to collecting, preserving, creating and accessing dance documentation has developed into the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center. This particular digital presentation will continue to grow over time, featuring the department's iconographic file of historical prints and photographs of dancers.

Collection Data

Description: Eleven original photographic studies of Isadora Duncan made in New York during her visits to America in 1915-18.
Names: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942 (Photographer)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1915 - 1918
Library locations: Jerome Robbins Dance Division; Shelf locator: *MGZEC 87-290
Topics: Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927; Women dancers -- United States
Genres: Photographs
Notes: Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.; Publications: Reproduced as plates 1-2, 11, 13, 15-16, 18-20, and 23 in the publication, Isadora Duncan; twenty-four studies by Arnold Genthe (New York, London, M. Kennerley, 1929).; Content: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923; Acquisition: Gift of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
Physical Description: Extent: 11 mounted photographic prints : black and white ; 34 x 24 cm., or smaller, mounted on board 51 x 41 cm.; Stored in two cases.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPY767058691-F; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12156296; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6b8a6a40-c625-012f-15ab-58d385a7bc34