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Inventory of the Edna Lucile Baum Papers, 1890-1981
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2008. ©2008. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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Creator |
Baum, Edna Lucile |
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Title |
Edna Lucile Baum Papers |
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Dates |
1890-1981 |
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Extent |
3 cubic ft. (3 boxes and 2 oversize boxes) |
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Abstract |
Material relating to Chicago dance teacher and author Edna Lucile Baum, which includes incoming correspondence, writings, photographs, programs, dance notations and other miscellaneous printed items, scrapbooks and notebooks. |
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Language |
Materials are in English. |
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Repository |
Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
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Collection Call Number |
Dance MS Baum |
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Collection Stack Location |
3a 48 1 |
Edna Lucile Baum Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Gift, Ruth Ann Koesun, Olga Pegelow and Howard Woefel, 2004.
Virginia Hay Smith, 2008.
The Edna Lucile Baum Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
The Edna Lucile Baum Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
Chicago dance teacher and author.
Edna Lucile Baum was born in Georgetown, Illinois in 1894. . She was raised on the South Side of Chicago, and became a renowned children’s dance teacher. She started her dance studies with Mabel R. Wentworth in 1911, and later performed with Adolph Bolm, eventually becoming his assistant. She originally taught children’s dance classes for the Chicago Park District and in the early 1930s she opened her own studio.
In the late 1930s, for her more advanced students, Baum founded the Pink Slipper Club, originally called the Little Ballet Group, for which she created original ballets. She also taught dance teachers at conventions where she would sell her dance notes and descriptions. This led to opening the Ballet Book Shop in downtown Chicago – the first of its kind -- after she retired from teaching. She also sold her original ballet notes through her book and catalog business, and maintained a close relationship with British bookseller Cyril W. Beaumont.
Besides being a dance teacher and businesswoman, Baum was also a writer. She published the Dictionary of Dance Terms (1932), the Book of Bar Work (1934), and her Ballet Notebook (1950). She wrote and collected short poems and stories and was planning to write a dancer’s cookbook, for which she had started collecting recipes.
Edna Lucile Baum died in 1982 in Chicago at the age of 88.
Material relating to the life and career of Chicago dance teacher and writer Edna Lucile Baum. Includes incoming correspondence (with a short note from Lucia Chase and a letter from artist Troy Kinney), photographs, programs that date back to 1908, a collection of printed dance notations of various other dance teachers, plus miscellaneous printed items, Also, a copy of her 1950 book Ballet Notebook, and negative proofs of her 1934 publication Book of Bar Work. There is material collected for what was to be a dancer’s recipe book and many poems, notes, sketches and stories. The photographs include several of Edna Lucile Baum, studio portraits of Ruth Ann Koesun, a group of pictures of the Little Ballet Group, pictures of Yeichi Nimura and his “dancing” cats, a portrait of Cyril W. Beaumont, and a few miscellaneous others. The collection also contains a large album of photographs of the Baum family, friends and students, which has been photocopied for use, and an oversize box holding eight certificates and diplomas. Miscellaneous family documents include annotated pages and church ribbons from the Baum family Bible.
Arranged by type of material.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Container List |
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence, Incoming: Beaumont, Cyril W., 1949-1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, Incoming: Chase, Lucia, Oct. 8, 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, Incoming: Kinney, Troy, April 14, 1936; 1938 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence, Incoming: Lee, Virginia, Feb. 4, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, Incoming: Mingle, Marion, 1965; 1977; 1979 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence, Incoming: Pegelow, Olga, 1970-1975 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence, Incoming: Miscellaneous Letters, 1937-1979 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence, Incoming: Valentines (4 items), undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Works: Ballet Notebook, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Works: Book of Bar Work (negative proofs), 1934 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Works: Dancer's Recipe Book (mss. and notes), 1957 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Works: Poems and Prose, original and collected, ca. 1942-1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Works: Short Stories, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Works: Sketches and Story Notes, 1956-1957 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Photographs: Baum, Edna Lucile, ca. 1930-1937 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Photographs: Beaumont, Cyril W., 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Photographs: Koesun, Ruth Ann, ca. 1936-1950 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Photographs: The Little Ballet Group, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Photographs: Nimura, Yeichi, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Photographs, Miscellaneous: 1950; 1962; 1978 and undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Miscellaneous: Family documents and personal sketch, 1893-1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Miscellaneous: Clippings, brochures, magazines, 1936-1977 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Miscellaneous: Dance directions and notations of Edna Lucile Baum, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 24-30 | Miscellaneous: Dance directions and notations of dance teachers, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 31-37 | Miscellaneous: Programs, 1908-1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 38 | Miscellaneous: Printed Items - Nimura, Yeichi, 1939;1948;1957 and undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 39 | Miscellaneous: Printed Items: "Stone/Camryn…A Tribute", 1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 40 | Miscellaneous: Printed Items: Wentworth Dancing School, 1911-1912 | |||||||||
| 2 | 41-42 | Miscellaneous: Scrapbook of magazine cuttings, undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 43-44 | Miscellaneous: Scrapbook of recipes, undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 45-71 | Album of photographs of family, friends and students | |||||||||
| Oversize | Photocopied pages of Album of photographs of family, friends and students with photocopies (originals in box 3, folders 45-71) | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Marriage certificate: James B. Baum and Alice Stowers, Chicago, 1890 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Diploma: Englewood High School, Jun. 1912 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Diploma: Wentworth School of Dancing, Chicago, Apr. 1913 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Diploma: Chalif Normal School of Dancing, New York, Jul. 1914 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Certificate: Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten Training School, Aug. 1917 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Diploma: American Society of Teachers of Dancing, Aug. 1924 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Certificate: Chicago Association of Dancing Masters, May 1930 | ||||||||||
| Oversize | Certificate: Dancing Masters of America, Aug. 1930 | ||||||||||