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Oral history interview with Edouard Du Buron, 1993 March 9-May 13
An interview with Edouard Du Buron conducted 1993 March 9-May 13, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Du Buron discusses his childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts in a poor family with an abusive father and his rearing in various Catholic orphanages; his loss of religion in his youth and growing up as a French-Canadian in New England; his career as a solo dancer in Boston (1925-32) and as a member of the Ruth St. Denis Troupe (1932-38); his dance career in New York City in the late 1930s and his job as a display designer at Filene's department store in Boston (1942-45).
Letter, 1913 December 31
Letter from Maria Harpin and Philippe Sansoucy, to Napoleon Sansoucy and his children.
Josephine Violette Reed Correspondence
Entries include brief biographical information, a typed biography relating to Reed's impoverished upbringing when after the age of five she was moved to convents in New Brunswick, Canada, and Portland, Maine, and boarded with families other than her own, and handwritten letters of correspondence with the Maine State Library concerning her book of verse written in the French dialect De Leetle Jesus of St. Basil: and other poems. Date range: 1932-01/1932-08