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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
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. 118undated
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 1
Budget1985
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 2
Chronology of Spencer Projectcirca 1987
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 3
College Music Society, Mid-Atlantic Chapter1986
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 4
Correspondence concerning the Spencer Project1985
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 5
Correspondence concerning the Spencer Project1986-1987
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 6
Correspondence with Lee Greene1986-1993
- Text [ X030866714] box: 2 folder: 7
Indiana University Afro-American Arts Institute – Meetings with Esther M. Olin, Composer1986-07-02-1986-07-03
- 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 Services1986
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 10
Indiana University Women's Study Program1986
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 11
Legal Papers1986-1987
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 12
Marketing1986
- Text [X030866714] box: 2 folder: 13
Master Outline of Anne Spencer Speakscirca 1985
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 1
News clippings and Printed1985-1996
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 2
News clippings concerning Ota Benga and Chauncey Spencer1993
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 3
Personnel Lists and Biographies for the Spencer Project Performers1985-1986
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 4
Poetry Used for Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Gardencirca 1985
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 5
Program for the Lynchburg Bicentennial Festival of the Arts and related notes1986-04-06
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 6
Program for the Lynchburg College Dillard Fine Arts Center Performance of Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden1985-05
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 7
Program Synopsis, Sound and Stage Directioncirca 1985
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 8
Proposal for Videotaping and Editing Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden1987
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 9
Proposal to Produce a Television Film of Anne Spencer Speaks: Images in the Garden1985-1990
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 10
Publicity1985-1986
- 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 Project1986-1987
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 13
Scores and Page 1 of Scriptundated
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 14
Television Program Format (Tentative) – Garnet Stamps1986, undated
- Text [X030866715] box: 3 folder: 15
Video Log Book – Bruce Braun1986
- Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 1
Video Log Book – Esther Olin1986
- Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 2
Video Logs, Sound Tracks, and Video Commentary, with a Dance Theater Historycirca 1986
- Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 3
Video Plans - Original1986
- Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 4
Video Script, including sample scripts1984, 1986
- Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 5
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy1983, 1986
- Text [X030866716] box: 4 folder: 6
Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts1985
Series II: Media Relating to Anne Spencer Speaks
- Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3579
Master Spencer Audio Tape Iundated
- Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3580
Master Spencer Audio Tape IIundated
- Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3581
Images from the Garden – Spencer/Olin Audioundated
- Mixed Materials box: Audiocassette #3582
[Interview?] Bethel Spencer Stevenson, Montclair, New Jersey1986-11-03
- Mixed Materials [X030176674] box: Disk #0970
Images from the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencer Dance Theatre of Central Virginia1987
- Mixed Materials [X030748411] box: Videocassette #0536
Images From the Garden Dress Rehearsal I1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748412] box: Videocassette #0537
Images From the Garden Dress Rehearsal1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748413] box: Videocassette #0538
ISO/Wide shots I Dress Rehearsal1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748414] box: Videocassette #0539
ISOL/Wide shots II Dress Rehearsal1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748415] box: Videocassette #0540
ISO/Wide shots III Dress Rehearsal1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748416] box: Videocassette #0541
Images From the Garden ISO/Dress Rehearsal #4/Performance #11986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748417] box: Videocassette #0542
Images From the Garden ISO/Performance #21986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748418] box: Videocassette #0543
Images From the Garden ISO/Performance #31986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748419] box: Videocassette #0544
Images From the Garden ISO/Performance #41986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748420] box: Videocassette #0545
Images From the Garden Performance/Scene I1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748421] box: Videocassette #0546
Images From the Garden Performance/Scene II1986-04-06
- Mixed Materials [X030748422] box: Videocassette #0547
Images From the Garden Scene II Solos/Choir1986-04-05
- Mixed Materials [X030748423] box: Videocassette #0548
Images From the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencerundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748424] box: Videocassette #0549
Images From the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencerundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748425] box: Videocassette #0550
Images from the Garden: A Celebration of Anne Spencer1987-04
- Mixed Materials [X030748426] box: Videocassette #0551
Images from the Garden – Spencer – Olinundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748427] box: Videocassette #0552
Spencer Tape Iundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748428] box: Videocassette #0553
Spencer Tape II1986-03-18
- Mixed Materials [X030748429] box: Videocassette #0554
Spencer House I1987-02-16
- Mixed Materials [X030748430] box: Videocassette #0555
Spencer House II1987-02-16
- Mixed Materials [X030748431] box: Videocassette #0556
Library of Congress Photos Tape #1undated
- Mixed Materials [X030748432] box: Videocassette #0557
Library of Congress Photos Tape #2undated
- Mixed Materials [X030748433] box: Videocassette #0558
ABC Nightline Clip of KKK1987-02-16
- Mixed Materials [X030748434] box: Videocassette #0559
CBS News Various Concentrations, KKK Marchundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748435] box: Videocassette #0560
Montclair Interviews MI #11987-03-13
- Mixed Materials [X030748436] box: Videocassette #0561
Montclair Interviews MI #21987-03-13
- Mixed Materials [X030748437] box: Videocassette #0562
Montclair Interviews MI #31987-03-13
- Mixed Materials [X030748438] box: Videocassette #0563
Master of Interviewundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748439] box: Videocassette #0564
Photos and Paintings from Booksundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748440] box: Videocassette #0565
untitledundated
- Mixed Materials [X030748441] box: Videotape #0305
Images From the Garden1987-07-03