Converted to EAD3 : Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Version 3 : Release: 1.1.1 : Release Date: 2019-12-16. Validating against latest version of schema.
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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2006560753
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Purchase; Elizabeth Marshall; 2002
Materials were given by the creator/photographer to her friend, Elizabeth Marshall, from whom the Library of Congress acquired the photographs.
No further accruals are expected.
The Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation collection was processed in 2016, with the finding aid coded for EAD format by Libby Smigel in 2017.
Visual artist and filmmaker Simon Moselsio's papers can be found at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Materials in this collection include his comments on the
The Library of Congress Music Division is rich in materials that document the life and career of American modern dance pioneer Martha Graham. For study of the 1930s to 1940s period of Graham's legacy, the most relevant collections in the Music Division include: Aaron Copland Collection ; Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection ; Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski Papers; Jane Dudley Papers; Martha Graham Collection ; Martha Graham Legacy Archive; May O’Donnell Papers ; Miriam Cole Papers ; Music Division, Old Correspondence Files; and Sophie Maslow Papers.
For the study of dance photography, the Library of Congress Music Division has the Larry Colwell Dance Photographs, the Judith Chazin-Bennahum Photograph Collection relating to Antony Tudor , the George Zoritch Collection , and the Valeria Ladd Collection on the Revived Greek Dance . The Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress has dance photographs in the Arnold Genthe Collection, the Carl Van Vechten Collection, and others.
Materials from the Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation are governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and other applicable international copyright laws.
The Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation collection is open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Music Division prior to visiting in order to determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Many of the Herta Moselsio photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation are available on the Library of Congress website. See links below to online digital content.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container-folder number], Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Herta Moselsio was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1892. She studied at the University of Berlin, 1913-1915; Kunstgewerbeschule, Berlin (art), 1915-1916; and Keramische Werke, Velten (ceramics), 1919-1921. She married Polish-born sculptor Simon Moselsio and immigrated with him to the United States in 1924. Herta Moselsio taught at Bennington College from 1934 to 1960. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Center and Weyhe Galleries, New York; Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont; Gallery America House, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont. She and husband Simon cooperated with the Harmon Foundation in filming major European and American artists.
The Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation collection is composed of 19 different shots of Martha Graham performing her solo dance work titled
Several of the photographs are represented in this collection by a number of prints with different contrast. Two poses are photocopies or contemporary prints of originals. Most of the images in this collection have been digitized and are accessible online.
The collection is organized in a single series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2006560753
Nineteen folders contain the photographic print or prints of a specific pose. Where several prints of one pose are provided, they differ in printing contrast, grain, saturation, or focus. Folder 20 contains photocopies provided by the collection donor, Elizabeth Marshall, to document the range of images.
Organization of prints corresponds to numbering assigned during digitization of this collection.
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