Collection Contents

Biographical and academic materials

Boston Girls' High School, commencement program, 1918

George Peabody College for Teachers, School of the Dance, schedule of courses offered by Ted Shawn, 1938

"Boston teacher called evangelist of the dance," newspaper clipping, 1939

Dance programs

The Feast of Apollo, Brattle Hall, Massachusetts, 1925

Mildred Davenport and her pupils, Brattle Hall, Massachusetts, 1928

Recital of dance poems and songs, Allied Art Studio, Boston, 1928

Mildred Davenport and Sepia Beauties in revue, Challengers Club, Boston, 1933

Bronze rhapsody

1934

Typescript of stage directions, with holograph note "Miss Davenport (personal)" on first leaf, 1934

1935-1941

1942

Hand-colored poster (partial), 1942

Classic, John Hancock Hall, Boston, 1938

Shadowland Ball Room performances, Boston, undated.

Dance school materials

Davenport School of the Dance application, undated

Silver Box Studio

Course brochures and applications, undated.

Event invitation and greeting card, 1939 and undated.

Photographs

Personal

Prince School class,1914

Teenage performances, undated.

Portraits, undated.

Performances by students

Piggilly wiggily, ca. 1942

Top hat, ca. 1942

Unidentified, undated.

Other individuals

Hall, Tom, 1930

Purcell, Barbara, ca. 1942

Stokes, Bernice, ca. 1942

Roberts, Francine, ca. 1942