Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Letter from Gertrude Stein to Marcelle Ferry, 1930-12-08
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and ephemera associated with author Gertrude Stein.
Dates:
1930-12-08
Photograph of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas boarding a plane on their first flight, 1934-11-07
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Scope and Contents
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten of Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas boarding a plane. The photographer wrote of the event, "This shows the beginning of Miss Stein's and Miss Toklas's first airplane voyage, when they flew to Chicago to hear a performance of 'Four Saints in Three Acts' at the Chicago Auditoriumn. I flew with them and made these pictures just before the start. The fetishes in their hands, presents from me, are little beaded men on a base of rabbit's foot, made by...
Dates:
1934-11-07
Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson "Four Saints in Three Acts" broadside, 1934-02-08 - 1934-02-10
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Scope and Contents
Broadside advertising the official world premiere of Stein and Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which opened on February 8, 1934, at the Wadsworth Atheneum's Avery Memorial Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. The opera had its private premier the previous night; the public premiere on the 8th was followed by two subsequent performances on the 9th and 10th before the show traveled to Broadway.
Dates:
1934-02-08 - 1934-02-10