Inventory of the F. Peter Weil Collection of Photographs of the Tosia Mundstock Dance Group, ca. 1946-1950 The Newberry Library Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections 60 West Walton Street Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324 USA Phone: 312-255-3506 Fax: 312-255-3646 E-Mail: specialcolls@newberry.org URL: http://www.newberry.org Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2008. ©2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Selected Search Terms

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Names

• Mundstock, Tosia
• Weil, F. Peter, 1913-1997

Subjects

• Modern dance -- Michigan -- Detroit
• Photographs -- 1946-1950