Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden, collection , MSS14986, MSS14986

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of files and media, ca. 800 items (4 Hollinger boxes, ca. 8.5 linear feet), circa 1985-1996, relating to the creation and performance of Anne Spencer Speaks : Images in the Garden which was composed and directed by Esther M. Olin and choreographed by Betty Sue Moehlenkamp. The collection includes research files, correspondence, contracts and release forms, programs, publicity materials, news clippings, and audio and video recordings. In addition, there is a copy of J. Lee Greene's biography of Anne Spencer, Time's Unfading Garden , annotated by Esther M. Olin, which has been transferred to Rare Books. Also of interest is an audio recording of an interview with Anne Spencer's daughter, Bethel Calloway Spencer Stevenson (November 3, 1986).

Container List

Series I: Papers concerning the Creation of Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden

Text [X030866699] folder: Oversize
Anne Spencer Commemorative Plate No. 118
undated
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 1
Budget
1985
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 2
Chronology of Spencer Project
circa 1987
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 3
College Music Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter
1986
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 4
Correspondence concerning the Spencer Project
1985
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 5
Correspondence concerning the Spencer Project
1986-1987
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 6
Correspondence with Lee Greene
1986-1993
Text [ X030866714] box: 2 folder: 7
Indiana University Afro-American Arts Institute – Meetings with Esther M. Olin, Composer
1986-07-02-1986-07-03
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 8
Indiana University Afro-American Arts Institute Performance Brochures and Notes on "Four Women" and "Capoeira"
1981-1986
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 9
Indiana University Media Services
1986
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 10
Indiana University Women's Study Program
1986
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 11
Legal Papers
1986-1987
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 12
Marketing
1986
Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 13
Master Outline of Anne Spencer Speaks
circa 1985
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 1
News clippings and Printed
1985-1996
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 2
News clippings concerning Ota Benga and Chauncey Spencer
1993
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 3
Personnel Lists and Biographies for the Spencer Project Performers
1985-1986
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 4
Poetry Used for Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden
circa 1985
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 5
Program for the Lynchburg Bicentennial Festival of the Arts and related notes
1986-04-06
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 6
Program for the Lynchburg College Dillard Fine Arts Center Performance of Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden
1985-05
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 7
Program Synopsis, Sound and Stage Direction
circa 1985
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 8
Proposal for Videotaping and Editing Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden
1987
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 9
Proposal to Produce a Television Film of Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden
1985-1990
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 10
Publicity
1985-1986
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 11
Publicity Meeting (March 10)
1986
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 12
Research and Documentation concerning photographs used in the Spencer Project
1986-1987
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 13
Scores and Page 1 of Script
undated
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 14
Television Program Format (Tentative) – Garnet Stamps
1986, undated
Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 15
Video Log Book – Bruce Braun
1986
Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 1
Video Log Book – Esther Olin
1986
Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 2
Video Logs, Sound Tracks, and Video Commentary, with a Dance Theater History
circa 1986
Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 3
Video Plans - Original
1986
Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 4
Video Script, including sample scripts
1984, 1986
Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 5
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
1983, 1986
Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 6
Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts
1985

Series II: Media Relating to Anne Spencer Speaks

Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3579
Master Spencer Audio Tape I
undated
Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3580
Master Spencer Audio Tape II
undated
Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3581
Images from the Garden – Spencer/Olin Audio
undated
Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3582
[Interview?] Bethel Spencer Stevenson, Montclair, New Jersey
1986-11-03
Mixed Materials [X030176674] box: Disk #0970
Images from the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencer Dance Theatre of Central Virginia
1987
Mixed Materials [X030748411] box: Videocassette #0536
Images From the Garden Dress Rehearsal I
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748412] box: Videocassette #0537
Images From the Garden Dress Rehearsal
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748413] box: Videocassette #0538
ISO/Wide shots I Dress Rehearsal
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748414] box: Videocassette #0539
ISOL/Wide shots II Dress Rehearsal
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748415] box: Videocassette #0540
ISO/Wide shots III Dress Rehearsal
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748416] box: Videocassette #0541
Images From the Garden ISO/Dress Rehearsal #4/Performance #1
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748417] box: Videocassette #0542
Images From the Garden ISO/Performance #2
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748418] box: Videocassette #0543
Images From the Garden ISO/Performance #3
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748419] box: Videocassette #0544
Images From the Garden ISO/Performance #4
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748420] box: Videocassette #0545
Images From the Garden Performance/Scene I
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748421] box: Videocassette #0546
Images From the Garden Performance/Scene II
1986-04-06
Mixed Materials [X030748422] box: Videocassette #0547
Images From the Garden Scene II Solos/Choir
1986-04-05
Mixed Materials [X030748423] box: Videocassette #0548
Images From the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencer
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748424] box: Videocassette #0549
Images From the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencer
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748425] box: Videocassette #0550
Images from the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencer
1987-04
Mixed Materials [X030748426] box: Videocassette #0551
Images from the Garden – Spencer – Olin
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748427] box: Videocassette #0552
Spencer Tape I
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748428] box: Videocassette #0553
Spencer Tape II
1986-03-18
Mixed Materials [X030748429] box: Videocassette #0554
Spencer House I
1987-02-16
Mixed Materials [X030748430] box: Videocassette #0555
Spencer House II
1987-02-16
Mixed Materials [X030748431] box: Videocassette #0556
Library of Congress Photos Tape #1
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748432] box: Videocassette #0557
Library of Congress Photos Tape #2
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748433] box: Videocassette #0558
ABC Nightline Clip of KKK
1987-02-16
Mixed Materials [X030748434] box: Videocassette #0559
CBS News Various Concentrations, KKK March
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748435] box: Videocassette #0560
Montclair Interviews MI #1
1987-03-13
Mixed Materials [X030748436] box: Videocassette #0561
Montclair Interviews MI #2
1987-03-13
Mixed Materials [X030748437] box: Videocassette #0562
Montclair Interviews MI #3
1987-03-13
Mixed Materials [X030748438] box: Videocassette #0563
Master of Interview
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748439] box: Videocassette #0564
Photos and Paintings from Books
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748440] box: Videocassette #0565
untitled
undated
Mixed Materials [X030748441] box: Videotape #0305
Images From the Garden
1987-07-03

Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden collection MSS14986 MSS14986

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