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| BOX 1, 4-7, 9 | Photographs |
| The Photographs series includes black and white prints of Adolph Bolm’s professional portraits. It also includes pictures of him in costume in various Michel Fokine ballets, such as Le Coq d’Or and The Firebird. Several of these larger portraits (in boxes 4 through 6) are taken with Tamara Karsavina, his frequent partner with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in such ballets as Thamar and Le Pavillon d’Armide. There are photographs of Bolm in the role of Chief Warrior in Fokine’s “Polovtsian Dances” from the opera Prince Igor — a particulary notable role during his tenure with the Ballets Russes. In addition, there are photographs from Bolm’s own ballets, such as Bach Cycle and Le Ballet Mécanique. The latter was an important work in Bolm’s choreographic career as he revived it several times in different forms, taking inspiration from the earlier work The Spirit of the Factory. The series contains photographs of Bolm with frequent collaborators, such as dancer Ruth Page, his partner at the Ballet Intime and the Adolph Bolm Ballet, composer Igor Stravinsky, who composed Apollo for Bolm’s Apollon Musagète in 1928, and John Alden Carpenter, who composed music for several of Bolm’s ballets. One photo shows Ballets Russes impresario Serge Diaghilev on tour in Lausanne in 1915. In addition, the series includes several small snapshots and postcards that show Bolm in costume for several roles, on tour with Ballet Intime, or in rehearsal. The last few folders include photocopies of photographs of Bolm, including one with John Barrymore, director of the film The Mad Genius, for which Le Ballet Mécanique was created. |
| Arranged chronologically or alphabetically by title within subseries. |
| BOX 1, 4-5, 9 | Adolph Bolm alone |
| BOX-FOLDER 4/1 | At Maryinsky School, circa 1903
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/1 | London, 1912
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/2 | Lausanne, 1915
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| BOX-FOLDER 9/5 | Photograph by Albie, 1921
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| BOX-FOLDER 9/6 | Photograph by Robert McAfee, 1923
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| BOX-FOLDER 9/7 | Chicago, 1924
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| BOX-FOLDER 9/8 | Hollywood Bowl, 1931
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/3, 5/1 | Portrait by Stuart O'Brien, 1940
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/4 | Portrait by Eichman, 1942
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/5 | Portrait by Goldberg, 1942
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/6 | Portrait by unknown, 1942
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| BOX-FOLDER 4/2 | Portrait by Baacan, undated
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| BOX-FOLDER 4/3 | Portrait by Goldberg, undated
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/7, 4/4 | Portrait by Seymour, undated
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/8 | Date unknown |
| BOX 1, 4-6, 9 | Adolph Bolm in costume |
| BOX-FOLDER 5/2 | Apollon Musagète
(1928)
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| Choreography by Adolph Bolm; music by Igor Stravinsky; scenery and costumes by Nicolas Remisoff; premiered by Adolph Bolm Ballet with Chamber Music Society, Washington D.C. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/9 | Arlecchinata
(1928)
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| Choreography by Adolph Bolm; music by Cassanea de Mondonville; sets by Nicolas Remisoff; premiered by Adolph Bolm Ballet with Chamber Music Society, Washington D.C. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/10, 4/5 | Le Carnaval
(1910), as Pierrot |
| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Robert Schumann; scenery and costumes by Léon Bakst; premiered by the Maryinsky Ballet at Pavlov Hall, Saint Petersburg, February 20, 1910. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/11 | Le Coq d’Or
(1914)
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| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; scenery and costumes by Natalia Gontcharova; premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at Théâtre National de l’Opera, Paris, May 24, 1914. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/12 | Danse Grec (Ballet Intime) |
| BOX-FOLDER 4/6 | Danse Macabre
(1922 short film) |
| Choreography by Adolph Bolm; music by Camille Saint-Saëns; directed by Dudley Murphy. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/13, 5/3 | The Firebird
(1910), as the Tsarevitch |
| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Igor Stravinsky; scenery by Aleksandr Golovin, costumes by Léon Bakst and Alexander Golovin; premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at Théâtre National de l’Opera, Paris, June 25, 1910. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/14 | Giselle
(circa 1910)
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| Choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot; music by Adolphe Adam and Friedrich Burgmüller; scenery by Pierre Ciceri, costumes by Paul Lormier; premiered by Paris Opera Ballet, Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique, June 28, 1841. |
| BOX-FOLDER 9/11 | Javanese Dance,
undated
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/15 | "Mozart" |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/16 | Petrouchka
(1911), as the Moor |
| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Igor Stravinsky; scenery and costumes by Alexandre Benois; premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, June 13, 1911. |
| BOX-FOLDER 6/1 | Polovtsian Dances, as Chief Warrior, in Prince Igor, (Act 2) (1909)
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| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Aleksandr Borodin; scenery and costumes by Nikolai Roerich; premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, May 19, 1909. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/17 | Sadko
(1911)
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| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Alexander Tcherepnin; scenery and costumes by Boris Anisfeld; premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1911. |
| BOX-FOLDER 4/7 | Thamar
(1912)
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| Choreography by Michel Fokine; music by Mily Balakirev; scenery and costumes by Léon Bakst; premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris, May 20, 1912. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/18, 4/8 | Unknown ballet |
| BOX 1, 4-5, 9 | Adolph Bolm with others |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/19 | Ballet Intime, Washington, D.C., 1917
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/21 | Bonnet, Joseph, with Ralph Bellamy and E. Robert Schmitz |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/22 | Carpenter, John Alden, with Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky |
| Scrapbook page. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/23 | Devi, Ratan, with Michio Ito and Tulle Lindahl |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/24 | Gallner, Nana and Igor Stravinsky |
| BOX-FOLDER 5/4 | Karsavina, Tamara, in Firebird, 1910
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/25, 5/5 | Karsavina, Tamara, in Le Pavillion d'Armide, circa 1909
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/26, 5/6 | Karsavina, Tamara, in Thamar, 1912
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/27 | Kirsh, Harry (student at Bolm School for Dance) |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/28 | Kirsh, Harry and Celine Raddling, students at Bolm School for Dance |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/29 | New Mexico tribe, 1937
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/30, 4/9 | Page, Ruth, and others |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/31 | Pavlova, Anna |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/32 | Remisoff, Nicolas (Bolm in costume for Coq d’Or) |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/33 | Stravinsky, Igor, 1940
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/34, 4/10 | Students, Bolm School for Dance |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/35 | Unidentified others, Bolm School for Dance |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/20 | With Olaf Bolm (son), 1930;
circa 1932
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| BOX-FOLDER 9/10 | With Ruth Page in Visions Fugitives, 1930;
circa 1922
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| BOX 1, 4 | Bolm's ballets |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/36 | Arlecchinata
(1928)
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| Curtain design by Remisoff. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/37, 4/11 | Bach Cycle
(1936)
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| Music by Johann Sebastian Bach; premiered by the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco, 1936. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/38 | Mephisto |
| Costume design by Eugene Lourié. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/39 | Mephisto
(1947)
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| Music by Franz Liszt; costumes by Eugene Lourié; premiered by the San Francisco Civic Ballet, San Francisco, 1947. |
| BOX-FOLDER 4/12 | Nymphs and Satyr (Ballet Intime) |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/40 | Le Ballet Mécanique
(1933)
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| Music by Alexandre Mossolov; originally choreographed for the film The Mad Genius (1931); costumes by Nicolas Remisoff and Adolph Bolm; premiered by the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera House, June 2, 1933. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/41 | The Spirit of the Factory
(1931)
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| Music by Alexandre Mossolov; costumes by Corinne; premiered by the Adolph Bolm Ballet at the Hollywood Bowl, July 28, 1931. |
| BOX 7 | Olaf Bolm childhood pictures |
| BOX 1, 4, 6 | Other photographs |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/42 | Diaghilev, Serge, 1915
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/43 | Page, Ruth in The Birthday of the Infanta |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/44 | Santa Fe tribe, 1921
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| BOX-FOLDER 6/2 | Stravinsky, Igor; portrait by Edwin McQuoid |
| BOX-FOLDER 4/13 | Stravinsky, Igor, 1957
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/45 | Unknown dancers |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/46 | Miscellaneous |
| BOX 1, 4, 9 | Photographed artwork |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/47 | Bust of Adolph Bolm by Anna Koltchanoveroff |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/48 | Drawing of Bolm in Prince Igor by Eugene Berman |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/49 | Drawing of Bolm by Jean Park |
| BOX-FOLDER 9/9 | Drawings of Bolm by Remisoff, 1934
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/50 | Drawing of Bolm in Spain by unknown |
| BOX-FOLDER 4/14 | Model of "Mars" for Bolm Ballet |
| With frame and note from Beata Bolm. |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/51 | Sketch of Bolm by Vidar |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/52 | Sculpture of Bolm as "Harlequin" by Gleb Deruginsky |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/53 | Unknown drawing |
| BOX 1 | Snapshots |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/54 | Bolm Ballet |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/55 | Bolm in rehearsal |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/56 | Bolm on vacation |
| BOX 1 | Postcards |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/57 | Bolm in costume |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/58 | Bolm with others; miscellaneous Bolm alone |
| BOX 1 | Photocopies |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/59 | Bolm in ballets: unknown; Daphnis and Chloe |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/60 | Bolm with John Barrymore on set of The Mad Genius, 1930
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/61 | Diaghilev's Ballets Russes |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/62 | Pictures from Los Angeles Philharmonic Archives |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/63 | Sketch of Bolm in Prince Igor, by Troy Kinney |
| BOX 1-2, 4, 9 | Programs |
| The Programs series documents Bolm’s choreographic career with several touring and resident companies. It includes programs from the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Ballet School, the Chicago Civic Opera, the Chicago Allied Arts organization, and the Adolph Bolm Ballet. The Hollywood Bowl Magazine provides details about The Spirit of the Factory, one of Bolm's more important ballets.
Beyond detailing his own companies, many of the programs feature Bolm’s work with major New York and European dance companies. The Ballet Theatre programs feature Bolm’s production of Peter and the Wolf, which he choreographed for the company in 1940 and which was performed in New York and on tour over the next four years. Bolm is listed as a company choreographer in Ballet Theatre’s souvenir program from 1940 (its founding season), alongside choreographers Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Antony Tudor, and Agnes de Mille. Bolm and Tudor are also listed as a principal dancers. Other dancers mentioned include Lucia Chase, Nana Gollner, Nora Kaye, Anton Dolin, and Hugh Laing. This souvenir program also includes designs from several works in the Ballet Theatre repertory, synopses of these ballets, and headshots and biographies of the principals and soloists. Souvenir programs from Col. W. de Basil’s Ballet Russe 1946-1947 seasons also feature famous dancers. In addition, the series contains 1916-1917 programs from Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes’ American tour, and the cover of a 1930 program. There are also programs for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo under Leonide Massine in 1939 and the same company under Bronislava Nijinska in 1943. These two latter programs feature famous ballet stars such as Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin, Maria Tallchief, and such productions as Balanchine’s Serenade, (described as “originally staged for the late American Ballet”), Nijinska’s The Snow Maiden, and Igor Schwezoff’s The Red Poppy. Diaghilev’s program lists the company’s planned season, includes positive press reviews (several regarding Vaslav Nijinsky), photographs, and a full page color illustration of Léon Bakst’s design for L’Après-Midi d’un Faune. |
| Subseries arranged alphabetically and chronologically arranged therein. |
| BOX 1 | Adolph Bolm Ballet |
| BOX-FOLDER 1/64 | Hollywood Bowl, July 28, 1931
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/65 | Hollywood Bowl, August 12, 1932
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/66 | Hollywood Bowl Magazine, "Symphonies under the stars," August 11-14, 1936
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/67 | Summer Festival Series, Santa Barbara County Bowl, July 23, 1938
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| BOX-FOLDER 1/68 | Redlands Community Music Association presents Adolph Bolm Dancers, Redlands Bowl, July 29, 1938
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| BOX 1 | Ballet Theatre |
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