Franziska Boas Collection
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Franziska Boas Collection1920-1988
Boas, Franziska, 1902-1988
Biographical History for: Franziska Boas Collection1920-1988
Biographical Sketch Franziska Marie Boas (b. 8 Jan. 1902; d. 22 Dec. 1988), pioneering dancer, percussionist, teacher, ethnologist, and therapist, was born in New York City, the youngest of six children of noted anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) and Marie Krackowizer. Like her father who was known for his commitment to social activism and his battle to rid the scientific community of racially based theories of intelligence, Franziska Boas was also a committed activist for racial equality and social justice. She worked to teach young people about the value of dance as a means of communication; she pioneered dance as therapy; she encouraged students to expand their own creativity through improvisation; she combined the study of dance with ethnology; and she broke down the racial barriers that stood in the way of almost all African-Americans wishing to pursue careers in dance. Franziska Boas was educated in public schools in Englewood, N.J., and in 1923 received a B.A. degree in Zoology and Chemistry from Barnard College. Undergraduate studies included dance with Bird Larson, with whom she continued to study from time to time after graduation. Other formal study included drawing and sculpture with Robert Laurent and Boardman Robinson, at the Art Students League in New York from 1923 to 1924, and in Breslau, Germany in 1927. Dance studies included working with Mary Wigman in Germany and with Hanya Holm in New York where she served as Holm's assistant and percussionist until 1933. In 1928, Boas married Nicholas Michelson, a doctor. They had one child, Gertrud Marie Michelson (Trudel), who was born June 16, 1929. They were divorced in 1942. In 1933 Boas founded and directed the Boas School of Dance at 323 W. 21st Street in New York. It was an interracial school with a performing company which Boas directed from it's founding until 1949. Among her many notable pupils were Ed Bates, Valerie Bettis, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Norman Coker, Katherine Dunham, Claude Merchant and Alwin Nikolais. In 1944 she founded the Boas Summer School of Dance on Lake George in Bolton Landing, NY. Also an interracial school, it continued under her direction until 1950. Besides teaching in her own schools, she also taught at the Walden School in New York, Bennington College, Mills College, Columbia University Teachers College, The Horace Mann School, Bank Street College, Bryn Mawr College, Colorado State Teachers College and The Savage School for Physical Education. The thrust of Boas' teaching, which sought to provide social integration through dance and other artistic endeavors, was taken even further through her work with schizophrenic children at Bellevue Hospital in New York. There, while working with psychiatrist Lauretta Bender, Boas pioneered the use of dance movement in the therapeutic treatment of profoundly disturbed patients. Work at Bellevue continued throughout the 1940s, all of which she did as a volunteer. In the early 1940s Boas created the first Western all-percussion orchestra. From 1947 to 1949 she toured the U.S. giving dance performances, lecture-demonstrations in dance, percussion performances. During this period Boas also continued to explore and study dance therapy at numerous institutions: the Menninger Institute, U.C.L.A., the Langley Porter Institute, Anna Halprin Studio, Stanford University, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington, Wayne State University, Veterans Administration Hospital, North Texas State College, Indiana University, Art Students League in New York, Bolton Music Festival, Scripps College, Fresno State Teachers College, Lake Erie College, the New School for Social Research and various meetings of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHPER). At North Texas State she presented the following program which includes many of the choreographic works she created during these years: Landscape - Javanese music Monotony - Colin McPhee Playful Interlude - percussion Goyaesque - Meyer Kupferman Lament - Cola Heiden Bolton Set: - Meyer Kupferman The Windbag The Drudge The Grapevine The Bobbie Soxer The Tourist Three other choreographic titles from this period are known: "Soliloque", "March", and "Duet". "Duet" was performed at the Boas School in New York with her daughter, Trudel. Franziska Boas' writings include two groundbreaking articles on dance as therapy: "Creative Dance as Therapy" in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and "Psychological Aspects in the Practice and Teaching of Dancing" in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Both were published in 1941. Probably her most noted work, particularly among dance ethnologists, was an edited volume from the seminar series The Function of Dance in Human Society. This was based on a series of seminars that took place at her studio in 1942 and was published in 1944. Participants included Franz Boas, Harold Courlander, Claire Holt, Gregory Bateson, George Herzog, Cora DeBois, and Geoffrey Gorer. In 1950, personal and economic setbacks forced Boas to leave New York and take a position at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, as Head of the Dance and Physical Education Department. In 1957, the department became the Dance Department, Division of Fine Arts. Boas remained there until 1965. Between 1950 and 1959, she was very active in the Southern Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (SAHPER), and in 1955 she organized the Georgia Dance Association. Within the curriculum at Shorter, Boas introduced the concept of culture in her dance history classes, clearly going beyond the contemporaneously accepted historical perspectives on dance. During this time she was also a member of the Georgia Council on Human Relations and a founding member of the Rome (Ga.) Council on Human Relations, an organization devoted to advancing the cause of integration. In 1965 Boas took an early retirement from Shorter College and moved to Sandisfield, Mass., where she was active in the Sandisfield Arts Council and taught dance at the Sandisfield Town Hall to community residents. In 1986 Boas attended the Hunt-Boas family reunion in Alert Bay, British Columbia. It celebrated the meeting of Franz Boas and the Kwakuitl Indian informant, George Hunt. All living descendants of both men attended and, at 84, Franziska Boas was the oldest attendee. Despite suffering from Alzheimer's disease during the last four years of her life, Franziska Boas remained active--still dancing in the fall of her last year--until her death on December 22, 1988. She is survived by her daughter Gertrud Marie Michelson and three granddaughters, Valerie, Carol, and Cindy Pinsky. A memorial service was held at Barnard College in New York on April 30, 1989. Franziska Boas, though not a well-known dancer or choreographer, as are Martha Graham, Charles Weidman and other contemporaries, is known for the way in which she combined her dance talents with wide-ranging social and professional concerns, creating and defining many of the sub-fields of dance that are studied today. An obituary written by her granddaughter Valerie Pinsky states: "She will be remembered as a woman of extraordinary grace and vitality, whose life could not have been more rich, and whose sense of humor was never lost."
Scope and Content Note The Franziska Boas collection is an extensive collection of multi-format materials documenting the professional and personal life of Franziska Boas. The collection spans Boas' career, from her academic training at Barnard College through her professional work as a dance teacher, accompanist, therapist and ethnologist, and includes documentation of her work as a social activist and as a community educator after her retirement. The collection consists of choreographic scores, music manuscripts and printed music, personal and general correspondence, business files, personal files, writings and research by and about Boas, clippings, iconography, miscellaneous items, and audio-visual materials. Please note: the contents list is not an index. The choreographic scores include original labanotation scores of both Boas choreography and unidentified choreography, as well as printed scores of works by others. Many of the scores are in fragile condition; check with a reference librarian to determine the status of their condition. The music series consists of music manuscripts for works by Franziska Boas and others, some with accompanying movement notation. The series also includes original scores by others for Boas choreography and untitled works as well. Printed music is also included in this series. The correspondence series consists of drafts and copies of letters to Boas, divided between personal and subject correspondence with subseries defined. The arrangement is alphabetical. Significant correspondents have been listed by name. The business files are arranged by subject and include a variety of materials: information relating to professional associations; teaching and other school files; Boas Dance Group business records; calendars and datebooks; card files; programs, arranged alphabetically; publicity files; other school-related roll books and record book. Shorter College materials include Shorter College Dance Club programs arranged by date, yearbooks, and other material related to performance programs all arranged by date. The personal files are arranged by subject and include information specifically relating to Franz Boas, financial and legal documents, records relating to livestock and animals Boas raised during her retirement, a manuscript of Nicolas Michelson's book, and Boas' college yearbooks. The writings and research series consists of manuscripts for articles by Boas and others, including her father, anthropologist Franz Boas; manuscript and material relating to the Boas publication The Function of Dance; dance-related books; notes for classes by Boas; printed publications by Boas and others; writings on dance therapy and children; miscellaneous notes for articles, choreography and demonstrations; notes on the history of dance and the history of theatre; magazine clippings; and selected reprints of journal articles. The iconography in the collection includes photos, slides and negatives arranged by subject; a variety of artwork by Boas; oversized iconographic materials; and iconography specifically relating to the Shorter College Dance Club. The series of miscellaneous materials consists of greeting cards, photostats of movement drawings, items relating to animals, a scrapbook and other miscellany. The audio-visual materials in the collection include audio recording tapes by Boas and others, and films documenting the choreography of Boas, Shorter College performances, as well as rare footage of unstaged Kwakuitl Indian dance performance. All audio-visual materials are located in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) of the Library of Congress and are subject to that Division's policies for use and reproduction. Binders, covers, frames, and other supports have been removed from most items because of their condition. Any identification they contained has been noted. Wherever possible, the original order of the materials has been maintained. Mary E. Edsall, Dance Archivist, October 1996
series
Choreographic Scores
The series Choreographic Scores include original labanotation scores of both Boas choreography and unidentified choreography, as well as printed scores of works by others.
subseries
Franziska Boas
file
"Birthright" choreographic score
Choreography for Valerie Bettis' dance [labanotation]
Choreography notes to The massacre of the innocents
[Unidentified choreography by Franziska Boas]
Others
Labanotations [Printed]
Dance Notation Record [magazine]
"Dance of the little swans" from Swan Lake
Dancer's Glancer [labanotation]
Jay Dance Notation
Kineseography
Labanotation symbols
16 dances in rhythms. Shawn
My first dance book. Chilkovsky, Nadia
Orchesography. Arbeau, Thoinot
Short modern dances. Chilkovsky, Nadia
A Stickman Notation [Jay Notation]
Three Rs for dancing book 1. Nadia Chilkovsky
Three Rs for dancing book 2. Nadia Chilkovsky
Music
The Music series consists of music manuscripts for works by Franziska Boas and others, some with accompanying movement notation.
Manuscripts
Basket ritual [working]
Changing tensions [with block diagram]
Iccarus
March for percussion and accordion
Percussion study
Quittez pastures
Rhythmic study
Sketch [Shorter college percussion class]
Miscellaneous sketches by Franziska Boas
Anderson, Paquita
Dance drama
Eschenberg, G. I. and G. Handel
Des Herren Einzug
Goeb, Roger
Dance
Heiden, Cola
Lament
Hyman, Jose
Untitled holograph [working]
Jurist, Irena
Music for fear
Kupferman, Meyer
Apparitions of the real
Bolton set
Goya-Esque
In a garden
Sonata for 2 cellos [blue line]
Untitled
McConnell and Gilstrap
McManamon, Charlotte
Mayday 1958
McPhee, Colin
Gegenggongan
Gonteng
Purcell, Margaret
Prelude
Segall, Bernardo
Study in monotony
Willis, Richard
Music for Mayday [1958]
Printed Music
Barbes, L. L.
Trois danses berberes
Beyer, J. M. ... [et al.]; H. G. Davidson, and R. Green
Percussion pieces
Britten, Benjamin
Ceremony of carols
Chapuis, A[uguste]
L'ecureil dans les bois
Debussy, Claude
Jardins sous la pluie
Pour le piano
Dubuque, A[lexander]
50 airs petites russes
Hindemith, Paul
Music of mourning [score, parts]
Hovhaness, Alan
Invocation to Vakahen no.1
McPhee, Colin transcriber
Balinese ceremonial music
Nápravík, E[duard]
Danse russe no. 4
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Carousel
Carousel (libretto)
Sliker, H. G.
Music unto us the living
Vaughn Williams, Ralph
Job
Weinberg, J[acob]
Danse hébraïque
Correspondence
The Correspondence series consists of drafts and copies of letters to Boas, divided between personal and subject correspondence with subseries defined.
Personal
A-E miscellaneous
F-Z miscellaneous
Boas, Ernst
Boas, Franz
Boas, Franz, 1914-1942 and Marie Boas
Gay, Jan
Griffin, Martha, 1952-1984
Kapuste, Roman and family
Lehman, Hedwig, 1915-1940 and Rudolph Lehman
Michelson, Gertrud, 1960-1959
Shelton, Sara, 1966-1981
Yampolski Family, 1917-1969
Miscellaneous
Subject
Boas School Correspondence
"A" miscellaneous
Bennett Junior College
Bennington School of the Dance (see also Martha Hill)
Bryn Mawr College
"B" miscellaneous
California, University of
Cnare, Ida See also: General Correspondence: Jones, Ida in "J" miscellaneous
"C" miscellaneous
Dunham, Katherine
"D" miscellaneous
Experiment in International Living
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College
"F" miscellaneous
Gaffney, Mrs. F.
Graham, Martha
Gretsch, Fred, Manufacturing Co.
"G" miscellaneous
Hayden, Erma
Hill, Martha
"H" miscellaneous
Ipcar, Melvene
"I" miscellaneous
Kennard, Lawaune (Re:)
"L" miscellaneous
Martin, Gertrude
McKechnie, Clifford B., Marion, and Jane
Mead, Margaret
"M" miscellaneous
Nikolais, Alwin
"N" miscellaneous
Polk-Shugart, Janet See also: box 84 Janet Shugart
"P" miscellaneous
"R" miscellaneous
School Art League
Syracuse University
"S" miscellaneous
"T" miscellaneous
Varèse, Edgar
Washington, State College of
Washington, University of
Wimmer, Ellen
Wimmer, Ellen, graduation program
"W" miscellaneous
"X" miscellaneous
Boas School Correspondence (re: Seminar)
Shorter College Correspondence
Beiswanger, Barbara
The blind
Chin, Mrs. P. T.
Christie, A. N.
Drama Dance Company
The Dance Mart
"E" miscellaneous
Films
Gaffney, Floyd
Gay, Jan See also: box 42
Georgia Council on Human Relations
Gold, Carolyn
Grauert, Ruth
Greenhole, Mary
Halpern, Ann
Hanger, Sally Fan
Hewitt, Luellen
Holbrook, Mary
Kamin dance books
King, Eleanor
"K" miscellaneous
Lattimore, Alice
Lepeschkin, Julie
Lin, Pei-Fen
Lippincott, Gertrude
McGhee, Joanne
Miller, Cora
Moomaw, Virginia
Mooney, Gertrude
National Dance Teacher's Guild
New York Medical College
"O" miscellaneous
Pauley, Frances
Richards Company, Inc.
Rome Council on Human Relations
Ryder-Frankel Studio
"R" miscellanoeus
Shorter College
General
Alcoholics Anonymous
Arnheim, Rudolph
Barnard College
Bateson, Mary Catherine
Bender, Laurette
Berkshire Community Action
Berkshire Home Care
Boas family genealogy
Boas, Getrud
Boas, Helene
Boas, Henry D.
Boas, Norman
Bode, Rudolph
Cage, John
Chaffee, Joan
Choreographer's workshop
Cole, John R.
Columbia University
Committee on Research in Dance
Cote, Albert
Department of Public Welfare
Deren, Maya
Dix, Jane and William
Donelan, Robert
Emmaus House
Friends of the Dance
Fritz
Gaustad, Virginia and Ed
Gomberg, William
Greek Traditional Dance Center
Hearns, Ernest P.
Herrman, Georg
Hewlett, Emily
Holm, Hanya
Holocaust Memorial Museum
Inquiries: Percussion and Dance Music 1947-50
Industrial Bank of Commerce
International Council for Negro Folklore
Jefferson School of Social Sciences
Johnson, Alice E. "Bessie" [Krackowizer]
"J" miscellaneous
Kealiinohomoku, Joann
Kennedy, Rose and Ted
Krackowizer genealogy
Laine, Hugh
Larson, Bird
Lawton, Shailer
Lindenbaum, Ed and Lois
Lipps, Lewis
MacSweeney, Leslie
Massachusetts Arts Committee
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council
McCloskey, Mark
McGovern, George
Meyer, Helene [aunt]
Michelson, Nicholas See also: box 24
Montague, J. Allison
"M" miscellanoeus
National City Bank of Rome, Georgia
National Endowment for the Humanities [grant related]
Noble, Paulina
Parmenter, Ross
Phelps, M.
Pinsky family
Powers, Margaret [analyst]
Reed College
Reilly, Paul
Ruby, Jay
Sandisfield, Massachusetts [Town of]
Savage School
Smithsonian Institute
Southern Poverty Law Center
Spingarn, Arthur B.
Steinen, Marianne
Stevenson, Adlai
United Nations [Declaration of Human Rights]
United States [Congress, Departments of Agriculture and Interior]
Urbach, Anne
Urbach, Ilse, Franz, and family
"U" miscellaneous
"V" miscellaneous
Walden School
Waldo, Frank and Florence
Weltfish, Gene
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Wetterer, Pat
Wohlaurer, Toni See also: box 24 for mss.
Yergan, Max
[1st Name Only "A" miscellaneous]
[1st Name Only "M" miscellaneous]
[Unidentified]
Business Files
The Business Files serries are arranged by subject and include a variety of materials: information relating to professional associations; teaching and other school files; Boas Dance Group business records; calendars and datebooks; card files; programs, arranged alphabetically; publicity files; other school-related roll books and record book.
Associations
American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Newsletters, convention programs, memos, etc.
Georgia Dance Association
Attendance list
Constitution, minutes, newsletters, member lists
Correspondence [1955-58]
Dance circuit member questionnaire
Dance circuit plans
Dance circuit potential performers
Georgia dance directory
Financial
National Section on the Dance
Papers [agendas, minutes, reports]
[Photo exhibit]
Everyone Can Dance [1952-58]
Bank Street College of Education
Bibliography, book suggestions
Class notes, etc.
Re: classes
Re: employment
Course evaluations
Faculty lists, graduate programs
Student papers
Boas Dance Group
Agendas
Boas Group Constitution
Hunter College
Costume designs
Dance diagrams to Dance in silence
Executive committee minutes
Itinerary
Minutes of meetings
Organization
Projects
Rehearsal notes 1944-46
Report on cooperatives
Set design
Silence speaks (dance in 15 scenes) [incomplete]
Tentative outline of performance
Tours
Treasurer reports
Applications for admission 1948-50
Curriculum drafts [1930-54]
Contract with Humphrey-Weidman School 1941
Correspondence 1946-47
Dance workshop 1966,67
Income and Expenses 1943-49
June 1947 course outline
323 W. 21st St., New York City [ca. 1949]
A.C. Emerson 1948
Letterhead stationary
Notebooks [ca. 1949]
Permits for use of Public school rooms 1946
Rent payment:
use of Morman Maxon studio 1949
use of Ernst Parkham studio 1949
Report on summer school 1944-45
Publicity and programs
Solicitation and fundraising
Bolton Landing Summer School
Bolton Festival
Boyce House floorplan
Correspondence 1950-1951
Emerson, A.C. & Co.
Form letters 1949
Income 1948
Publicity
Registration summer 1946
Report of Bolton Festival Society
Report on Summer School income and expenses 1950-51
Summer Music Festival 1948
Summer School 1948
Summer School residence
Tuition plan [tentative]
Writing course
Calendars
Appointment calendars 1952-66
Datebooks 1947-80
Card Files
Dance addresses
Dance articles, small notebooks
Publications, miscellaneous
Dance Notation Bureau Publications
Catalogs 1971-1968
Certificate
Class schedule, fall semester [n.d.]
Correspondence 1956-63
Highlights 1960, 1963
Lists
Rental material at Dance Notation Bureau
Teachers of labanotation
Newsletters 1961-65
Programs for exhibits
Reading materials in Labanotations for elementary students by Ann Hutchinson (1955) 1-10
Programs
Alf, Fe
American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
25th convention
75th convention
The American Physical Education Association Dance Section Conference [1919-37]
American Conservatory of Music, Dance and Drama [Franziska Boas]
American Dance Festival 1964
American Museum of Natural History
Bard College Workshop
Barrington Ballet Student Recital
Bennington School of Dance
Boas
Art of the Dance Today
Moving Models [November 1942]
North Texas State College
Handwritten program
Boas et. al. Dance Program
Boas School Studio Demonstration
Bodeschule für Körpererziehung
Bolton Central School
Graduation [June 1944]
Recital [August 1944]
Bolton Festival of Music
Bolton Landing Summer Players: A nice place to visit [July 1946]
Carnegie Hall
Carousel Theatre Co. [February 1939]
Columbia University 2nd Annual Festival of Contemporary Music [May 1946]
Comedie Francaise
Composer's Forum
Convention/Conference
2nd Georgia Physical Education Conference
5th CORD Conference
Art Conference at The University of Georgia
Congress International De La Population
Georgia Student Art Exhibit and Conference
Pre-Convention Dance Conference
Society for Ethnomusicology
Crusade: Experiemental player
Cunningham, Merce, Dance Company
Dance Congress materials [1936]
Dancers of Bali
Agnes De Mille Dance Theatre
Enters, Agna
Finch College Theatre
Folk Festival: I am an American day
Graham, Martha [Lincoln Center]
Greek Games of 1948
Halprin-Lathrop school
Harkness Ballet
Emily Hewitt et. al. [F. Boas]
Hanya Holm et. al. [F. Boas]
Louis Horst Memorial Program
Intercollege Modern Dance Symposium [April 1939]
Melvene Ipcar and Nancy McKnight [May 1937]
Knickerbocker Chamber Players [November 1955]
Kreutzberg, Harald
Laban, Rudolph: Der Narrenspiegel
Lecture: "The rhythm of the human body" by Max Merz
Lenox Arts Center Ensemble
Alexander Lesser Tribute
Let Joy Be Unconfined
The Little Clay Car
Liturgical Dance Vespers
Litz, Katherine and Ray Harrison
Maria-Theresa and the Heliconiades
Martha Graham School schedule of classes [1989]
Mayday Festival Coker College
Mexican Centennial 1910
Naparstok, Ester
Negro Program: Up from slavery
New Dance Group
New World Dances
Nikolais Dance Theatre [February 1979]
Raduga Dancers - Bravo!
Religious Arts Festival
Le Rendevous Manque
Sandisfield Arts Council
Savage school 1939-41
Students of Shorter College: The triumph of spring
Symposium of Early and Contemporary Music [May 1944]
Theatre Arts Workshop: The Trojan woman [Franziska Boas]
Norman Thomas 80th Birthday Reception
United Nations 3rd Annual Folk Festival
Varese, Edgar
WPA Composer's Forum Laboratory, Carnegie Hall
Waco Symphony 1965-66
Wallner's Marionettes: Doktor Faust
Wilson, Julie [Fisk University]
15th Fine Arts Festival of University of North Carolina
American Association of University Women Creative Arts Group [November 1955]
American Dance Festival Dance Therapy Course
American Dance Therapy Publicity
Ballets
Brooklyn Institute of Arts Workshops
Dance Congress and Festival [1918-36]
Dance Percussion class [October 1937]
Dance related A-Z
Dance Workshop [June 1953]
Indiana University School of Music [April 1950]
Martha Graham Studios (see also oversize box 1)
Music related A-Z
Nature/Environmental Societies
New School for Social Research [December 1937]
Products
Sarah Lawrence Chamber Orchestra [April 1957]
School of Fine Arts [1956]
Summer School of Dance, San Francisco
Staatsschulen für Freie und angewandte Kunst 1928-29 Berlin-Charlottenburg
YM-YWHA [Young Men's - Young Women's Hebrew Association] summer course description
Record Books
Ledgers [Savage School]
General information
Receipts for teaching and demonstrations, etc. 1937-40
[Savage school ledger] 1939-48
Rollbooks
Grade book 1948
[Ledger n.d.]
Katherine Dunham School
Professional and consultation classes 1948
Dance Club
1953-65 [Oversized Shorter Performances/Programs. The story of Job, May 1964. David and Goliath, 1963.]
Performances/Programs
Honor Roll of donors 1984-85
Carousel 1959
Dido and Aeneas 1951
Fine Arts Festival 1954,55,60
May Day 1951-55, 58
Motion chior 1955
Theatre of Creative Movement 1962
Programs 1952-64
Set designs
Shorter College Dance Club 1950-53
Summer School of the Fine Arts 1956-57
Alumni directory 1984
Yearbooks 1949-62
Personal Files
The Personal Files series are arranged by subject and include information specifically relating to Franz Boas, financial and legal documents, records relating to livestock and animals Boas raised during her retirement, a manuscript of Nicolas Michelson's book, and Boas' college yearbooks.
Franz Boas
American Philosophical Society
Franz Boas biography by Franziska Boas
Boas family genealogy 1650-1985 [publication]
Franz Boas life insurance policy
Correspondence regarding Franz Boas or his work
Correspondence regarding Franz Boas's death
"Curriculum vitae of Franz Boas" by Franziska Boas
Hays, Hoffman R.
Lesser, Alexander
Odyssey [PBS documentary]
"Reminiscences of Franz" by Franziska Boas
Reprints of Franz Boas articles
Rohner, Ronald P.
Stocking, George
Sympathy thank-you's
Financial/Legal Documents
Bank transactions 1976-89
Bills
domestic
medical
receipts 1957-81
Bond certificates 1931-38
Cancelled checks 1970-75
Cancelled checks 1976-81
Cancelled checks 1982-88
Checkbooks 1948-50
Checkbooks 1976-85
Divorce papers of Franziska Boas 1944
Income tax 1949-87
Insurance policies A-M
Insurance policies N-Z
Loan payment book [ca. 1964]
Savings account record books 1959-86
Will of Franziska Boas 1925 & 1971
Royalty statements 1962-88 [Franz and Franziska Boas publications]
Livestock
Livestock, misc.
Yearbooks
Barnard College yearbooks 1921-24
Writings & Research
The Writings & Research series consists of manuscripts for articles by Boas and others; manuscript and material relating to the Boas publication The Function of Dance; dance-related books; notes for classes by Boas; printed publications by Boas and others; writings on dance therapy and children; miscellaneous notes for articles, choreography and demonstrations; notes on the history of dance and the history of theatre; magazine clippings; and selected reprints of journal articles.
Manuscripts for Articles
Article for Bender
Book review by F.B.
Creative dance in therapy
The dance and religion [May 1953]
The dance for the amateur [unpublished for Savage School]
Dance lectures, speeches, demonstrations
Dance performance review of Eva Kitchell
Development of modern European dance 1960
Draft of Development of modern European dance
The field of recreation
Introduction to master class at Bennett Junior College [February 1948]
Investigation of origins of dance gesture in industrial and daily motor patterns
Bird Larson eulogy
Lecture
Rollins College
Westminster Fellowship
Letters re: manuscript
Michal [King Saul's daughter high school play by F.B.]
Nebuchadnezzar and The golden image [high school term paper]
The negro and the dance
Notes on "Percussion accompaniment for the dance." F.B.
Open letter on manuscript
The origins of dance
Percussion music and its relation to the modern dance for the Dance Observer [Jan. 1940]
Percussion papers, lectures, demonstrations
The place of dance in a liberal arts college for Impulse [including correspondence]
Psychological aspects in the practice and teaching of creative dance
Random improvisation
A report on the south
Statement of views on the place of physical education in general education
Testimonial dinner for C.W. Aycock (speech by Franziska Boas)
Miscellaneous manuscripts
Various unpublished manuscripts
Modern Dance index/bibliography
Nicholas Michelson
The Northern Lights (play)
"Notes on Age confusion in Psychosis" The Psychiatric Quarterly, April, 1968 NY
Weltwind: Zweiter Teil (Published in part in New York 1937) [Translation of note on this manuscript reads: "not-published, i.e., partly in [Dorpot?] showed/expressed, -probably misplaced or not sent away. This is a complete Manuscript of everything that is not published. One copy is in the Library of Congress with the exception of "Nachlese" (Gleaning), there is one set of poems from the "Nachlese" (was 8 now 15) contained herein."]
Miscellaneous manuscripts and notes
Toni Wohlaurer "Memories and relfections" (written after Jacobi's death) [n.d.]
The Function of Dance
Advertisement
Bibliography 1953
Books and notes
Bound copy
Copyright document 1944
Duplicate manuscript: Function of dance no. 2
The function of dance in human society [printed version]
Iconography for Function of dance no. 2
Manuscripts published
Manuscripts published 1942 seminar
Materials for possible rewriting
Patterns of work in primitive industry
Schedule change cards
Seminars of 1938 and 1946
Arnheim, Rudolph, Movement and psychology [original version]
Gomberg, William, revision of "Time and motion studies in modern industry"
Lawton, Shailor, revised paper
Mead, Margaret, original paper not to be included for publication
Dance-Related Books
Bode, Rudolph, Ausdrucksgymnastik [1922]
Buren, Hans von, Der Men und die Bonne [1924]
Duval, Mathias, Duval's Grundriss der Anatomie für Künster Deutsche von Ernst Gaupp [1922]
Marker, Friedrich, Symbolik der Gesichtsformen [1933]
Sachs, Curt, World history of the dance [NY, 1952]
Traubel, Horace, Chants communal [NY, 1914]
Bohme, Fritz, Tanzkunst [1926]
Dixon, Madeleine C., The power of dance [1939]
Gaulhofer, Karl, Die Fusshaltung, Ein Beitrag zur Stilgeschichte der menschlichen Bewegung [1930]
Hoffmann, Rolf, Die Akademie [1925]
Laban, R. von, Gymnastik und Tanz [1926]
Pallat, Ludwig and Franz Hilker, Künstlerische Körperschulung [1939]
Rydberg, Olaf, Die Tänzerin Palucca [1935]
Theiss, Frank, Der Tanz als Kunstwerk [1920]
Notes for Classes [Shorter College Period]
Book lists
Choreography to college courses
Class notebook
Class notes
Therapy/physical education related
Various
Demonstration/class lecture notes
Improvisation class
Kinesiology/Physical Education/Health Classes
List for Shorter College Function
Miscellaneous notes
Notebook (various subjects)
Percussion class
Rhythm Studies
Sociology class [1950-51]
Studies from other colleges
Publications
By Franz Boas
Baffin Island Adventure [1957]
About Franz Boas
By Franziska Boas
Creative dance in Therapy [1941]
Dance music in the life of the Northwest indians... [1944]
Dance improvisation and the use of percussion [1958]
Dance in the Liberal Arts college curriculum [1953]
The negro and the dance as art [1949]
Note on percussion accompaniment for the dance [incomplete 1938]
Percussion music and its relation to the Modern dance [1940]
Psychological aspects in the practice and teaching of creative dance [ca. 1942]
Teaching the lay dancer [1941]
About Franziska Boas
By Others
Rudolf Arnheim [1946]
Laurette Bender [1941-69]
Charles Babbitts [1943]
Margaret N. H'Doubler
J. Uriel Garcia [Buenos Aires, 1937]
Charles Holt [Paris, 1939]
V.T. Inman [1946-48]
Adrienne L. Kaeppler [1978]
Leo Kanner [n.d. & 1930]
J. Kunst [Amsterdam, 1937]
Gertrude P. Kurath [1960]
Serge Lido [Paris, 1947]
Valentina Litvinoff [1973]
John Martin [n.d. & 1965]
Margaret Mead [1958]
Fannie H. Melcer [1955]
Artur Michel [1945]
Eya F. Rudhyar [1949]
Albert E. Schelflen [1960]
Paul Schilder [Berlin, 1922]
Edwin M. Shawn [1937]
Vishnudass Shirali [ca. 1936]
Ernestine Stodelle [1964]
Sybil Shearer [1943]
Gene Weltfish [1974]
Mary Wigman [n.d.]
Julie Wilson [1947]
George Willis [n.d.]
Lavinia W. Yarborough [Germany, ca. 1949]
Dance related domestic periodicals
Dance related foriegn periodicals [Germany 1925-40]
National Dance Teachers Guild Newsletter [American Dance Guild] 1959-71
Selected articles on dance from Journal of Health-- Physical Education-- Recreation presented by National Section on Dance 1958 edited by Gertrude Lippincott
Therapy/Children
Childrens dance therapy classes
Bellevue [1940-48]
New York City 1947-48
Misc.
Dance therapy research projects
Atlanta, GA [1953] (see Rome, GA)
New York City [1947-48]
Rome, GA [1952-53]
Lectures
American Dance Therapy Association conference 1971
California lecture tour 1952
Other locations
Solicitation for dance therapy course [1939-54]
Bank Street School 1968-70
Bennington summer school 1937
Boas school [1936, ca. 1948]
Creative approach to dance (draft) [1949]
Courses which I could offer in summer school [1953]
Dance music selection lists
Notebook 1 [Swimming conference 1921]
Notebook 2 [Fanziska Boas classes ca. 1933]
Notebook 3 [Notes and articles ca. 1933]
Notebook 4 [Roll book classes 1945-46]
Notebook 5 [Debussy: Prelude, Sarabande, Toccata (Dance) ca. 1933-44]
Tentative schedual for physical education (draft) [n.d.]
History of Dance, History of Theatre Notes
Bibliography for The history of European dance, non-European dance, theatre
Dated cards
Exam - History of non-European dance
Film lists
History of dance
Exam
Notes
Notes for classes
References from books
History of theatre
Bibliography and outline
Indices of articles, magazines
Mimeograph maps from dance history (non-European) exam
Miscellaneous notes for classes
Outline: "Dance in the West Indies"
Clippings/Magazines
Annotated clippings
Anatomy
Ernst Boas
Franziska Boas mentioned [dance related]
Civil liberties
Composers
Costumes
Dance related [ca. 1959]
Dogs
Einstein, Albert
Gadgets
Gesture
Human relations/race/cultures
India: Music/dance
Michelson, Gertrud
Movement
Music related
Native Americans
People
Personal friends
Photography and art
Social issues
Stage design
Therapy [dance/psychiatry/children]
Magazines
Dance related
The Nation January 1943
Peoples of the World
Physiology/kinesiology
Psychiatry
Science January 1943
Iconography
The Iconography series includes photos, slides and negatives arranged by subject; a variety of artwork by Boas; oversized iconographic materials; and iconography specifically relating to the Shorter College Dance Club.
Photos
Franziska Boas and family
Boas family
Boas family album
Apparitions of the Real [F.B]
Balder 1952
Balinese Dance negative/positive
Bennington Summer School/Riverside School [F.B.]
In Goyaesque
In Lament
In Playful interlude
Proofs by Thomas Yee Summer 1949 Lament and Goyaesque
Franziska Boas and Grant Code [Native American]
Calloo to Balinese Music
Dance drama Franziska Boas and Claude Marchant
Dance group [F.B.]
Dance of men and women
Drum beat [F.B.]
Function of dance
Africa dances
Haiti
Miscellaneous dance photos
Negatives of dance photos [F.B.]
New York classes
Percussion classes [F.B.]
Percussion class, New York
Shelton, Sara [and Raymond]
Shirley, Sylvia
Wigman, Mary [and others]
Worldwide News pictures 1946 [F.B.]
Friends, miscellaneous
Slides
Friends
Goats
Artwork [by Franziska Boas]
Human artwork, nudes [various formats]
Human studies, miscellaneous [various formats]
Sketchbooks 1-8
Oversize Material
Evaluations of students from PS11 [fragile; in mylar]
Interaction chart
Maps, various
Nude studies [drawings]
Photo
Poster of Boas Dance Group
Shorter College Dance Club
And winter's end 1958
Carolyn Gold's master class
Celebration of carols 1958
Mayday 1953-55
Miscellaneous Materials
The Miscellaneous Materials series of consists of greeting cards, photostats of movement drawings, items relating to animals, a scrapbook and other miscellany.
Animal orders
Barnard College alumni list
Call slips
Cartoons
Exercise schedule
Flora
Friends of the Center Award 1975
Greeting card halves
Krackowizer genealogy notes
Paper doll
Photostats of Boas drawings
Poems
Postcards
Quote [favorite]
Stamps
Table map of Rome, Georgia
Theatre Arts Monthly front page
Scrapbook