Thamar Karsarvina [dancing] (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Thamar Karsarvina [dancing]

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19562

Call Number: LC-B2- 3549-4

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    goon_town_killer, bcg~art, Patamus Warmer, byss and abyss, and 50 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (3 weeks ago | reply)

    Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Hampstead, England, she began teaching ballet professionally and would become recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance teaching organisation.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Platonovna_Karsa vina

  3. swanq (3 weeks ago | reply)

    Omaha daily bee., November 14, 1915, EDITORIAL MAGAZINE, Image 25
    chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/19 15-11-14/ed-...
    includes this photo among others in a full page feature on the ballerina.

    Omaha daily bee., July 04, 1915, EDITORIAL SOCIETY, Image 17
    chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/19 15-07-04/ed-...
    shows her in the same costume.

    The [New York] sun., December 26, 1915, SIXTH SECTION, Page 4,
    chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/19 15-12-26/ed-...
    identifies the costume as for Scheherazade. At the time she was with the Diaghilev company.

  4. This photo was invited and added to the Flickr Commons group.

  5. Barbara (LOC P&P) (2 weeks ago | reply)

    Thanks for the background information and the newspaper references. We'll add information when we next update the description. (There is an additional Bain photo with the more standard spelling of her name that we have not yet added to Flickr, showing her in a balletic pose: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.31568 )

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