Joyce Berry papers
Collection Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials related to the life and career of ballet dancer Joyce Berry, including correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, music compositions, news clippings, and artifacts.
Dates
- Creation: 1891-1987, undated
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1917-1960
Creator
- Berry, Joyce (Person)
Language of Materials
The collection is in English, French, German, and Russian.
Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright Unknown: Some material in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction, and/or commercial use, of some materials may be restricted by gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing agreement(s), and/or trademark rights. Distribution or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. To the extent other restrictions apply, permission for distribution or reproduction from the applicable rights holder is also required. Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical Note
Joyce Berry Kanitz was an English ballet dancer trained under the Ida Rubinstein dance company. She was a successful dancer in London and Paris, performing with the Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo and Madame Nijinksa of the Diagheleff Ballet. Throughout her lifetime she created personal scrapbooks that included photographs of herself and other dancers, especially Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova.
Extent
7.46 Linear Feet (17 boxes)
Abstract
This collection is comprised of photographs, correspondence, programs, and other material pertaining to former professional ballet dancer Joyce Berry. Notable materials in the collection include correspondence with dance companies, photographs of dancers, notebooks, and performance programs from the early to mid-20th century.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged into eight series as follows:
- Series 1. Artifacts, undated
- Series 2. Correspondence; 1923-1984, undated
- Series 3. Photographs; 1924-1954, undated
- Series 4. Articles and news clippings; 1917-1987, undated
- Series 5. Literary works; 1910-1957, undated
- Series 6. Programs; 1904-1984, undated
- Series 7. Sheet music and composition; 1891-1944, undated
- Series 8. Scrapbooks; 1918-1937, undated
Acquisition Information
The Joyce Berry papers were acquired as a gift in 2012.
Processing History
Processed by Aleia McDaniel and Celeste Navas, Student Processing Assistants, 2015.
Processing of the Joyce Berry papers was completed by undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside as part of the Special Collections & University Archives Backlog Processing Project started in 2015. This project was funded by the UCR Library and administered by Bergis Jules, University and Political Papers Archivist, and Eric Milenkiewicz, Manuscripts Curator.
Collection was reviewed and minor updates were made in 2022 by Andrew Lippert, Special Collections Processing Archivist. Primary changes were rehousing of photographs, transfer of oversized clippings to flat files, and placing scrapbooks in different boxes (minor box number changes in Series 8).
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Joyce Berry papers
- Status
- Processed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Aleia McDaniel & Celeste Navas, Student Processing Assistants.
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collections Repository
University of California
Rivera Library
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside 92517-5900 USA
specialcollections@ucr.edu