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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
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Inventory of the F. Peter Weil Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group, ca. 1946-1950
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Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Weil, F. Peter, 1913-1997 |
| Title | F. Peter Weil Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group |
| Dates | ca.1946-1950 |
| Extent | 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box) |
| Abstract | 85 photographs of an amateur Detroit modern dance group led by a German dancer named Tosia Mundstock. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Dance MS Weil |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 48 13 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
The F. Peter Weil Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Unknown
Processed by
Virginia H. Smith, 2007.
Access
The The F. Peter Weil Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The The F. Peter Weil Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group 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.
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Biography of F. Peter Weil
Chicago photographer.
F. Peter Weil was born in Germany in 1913 and came to the United States in 1938. Having started in photography as a hobby, he studied under Aaron Siskind and Art Sinsabaugh at the Institute of Design in Chicago on a part-time basis, 1952-1954. After working for photographers in Chicago and free-lancing for the Hyde Park Herald, Weil was hired by the Newberry Library in 1969 as the supervisor of the Photoduplication Department, and also served as staff photographer. In addition, Weil had an extensive collection of photographs from earlier community events, the most important of these being the 1961 Chicago Conference that brought hundreds of American Indians to the University of Chicago. This led to the founding of the National Indian Youth Congress.
Weil served on the Board of the Circle Pines Center, a summer camp cooperative in Michigan. A long-time resident of Hyde Park in Chicago, Weil died in 1997 at age eighty-three.
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Biography of Tosia Mundstock
Tosia Mundstock came to the United States in 1929 from Hamburg, Germany. Married to an artist named David Martin, Mundstock apparently had studied with Mary Wigman and Martha Graham. She was a teacher of community dance groups, two of which were in the Detroit area and in California. Little else is known about her except she was living and teaching in Santa Barbara, California in the 1990s.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Eighty-five black and white photographs of a Detroit amateur dance troupe: eleven of which are of a male dancer.
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Selected Search Terms
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.
Names
- Mundstock, Tosia
- Weil, F. Peter, 1913-1997
Subjects
- Modern dance -- Michigan -- Detroit
- Photographs -- 1946-1950
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1-5 | Eighty-five photographs of Detroit dance group, ca.1946-1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Clipping: Detroit Free Press article, Dec. 29, 1946 | |||||||||