Browse Items (105 total)

  • Collection: SIUC Theater Collections

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Signed, hand-decorated Christmas photograph of Katherine Dunham with John Pratt and daughter Marie-Christine Dunham Pratt.

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Black and white photograph of John Pratt and Katherine Dunham in 1942.

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Black and white photograph of Katherine Dunham performing with the Katherine Dunham Dancers in Cabin in the Sky, 1941, which she co-choreographed with George Balanchine.

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Black and white photograph of John Pratt and Katherine Dunham toasting at a dinner with Orson Welles.

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Black and white photograph of Katherine Dunham teaching dance to a student.

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Black and white photograph by Vera Elkan of actor Paul Robeson posing next to his sculpture by Fredda Brilliant, wife of Herbert Marshall, in London, 1939.

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Photocopied black and white photograph image of Ira Aldridge portraying Othello. Printed on the image: "R. Mason & Co."; "From Thomas Fall Photographer to the Queen"; "48 HIGH STREET, NOTTING HILL GAT[E]". Stamped on the image: "SCHOMBURG…

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Letter handwritten by Arthur Davison Ficke on his personal letterhead and signed along with Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gladys Brown, and Eugen Boissevain to John Howard Lawson, complimenting him on his Broadway show Processional, dated January 21,…

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Black and white production photograph of the locomotive in Casey Jones, designed by Mordecai Gorelik.

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Design by Mordecai Gorelik for John Howard Lawson's Processional. The modernist four-act play dramatizes the plight of striking coal miners under martial law and celebrates the working class with jazz music. First produced in 1925, it found greater…
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