The Arthur Hall Collection
Recent Additions
2008 - 2012
Last update: January 2012

New aquisitions

January 2012
Four photographs of Repertoire Workshop: MOJUBA (1967)
Donated by Steve Linn

December 2011
Marion D. Cuyjet and Her Judimar School of Dance:
Training Ballerinas in Black Philadelphia 1948-1971
By Melanye White Dixon (2011, Edwin Mellon Press)

November 2011
Videotape donated by C. Abbott Meader
Maine Public Broadcasting's Northern Lights program, ca. 1997
Arthur Hall conducting rehearsals and narrating

October 2011
Original transcripts and CD copy of audio recordings
1985 interviews of Arthur Hall by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Original ephemera from Ile Ife Center, ca. 1982-1983
from the Rev. Margo Blake

April 2011

16mm print of ILE IFE: House of Love (1973, color and black and white, 25 minutes)
from Raymond Hartung (on loan)
Digitally remastered, Excerpt available via YouTube

Produced from materials in the Arthur Hall Collection:

Ongoing:
Converting analog materials to digital, creating a Digital Archive

Miscellaneous scans of materials in the Arthur Hall Collection (AHC CD-Rs)

2010
October 2010 - produced prototype of AHC DVD #1 from Digital Archive files.

2009-2010 scans of Ken Abendschein slides from ca. 1978-1982 (AHC Aben)

2009
2009 scans of Elizabeth Roberts slides (AHC Nov.96)


2008
Renaissance on Sacred Ground (AHC DVD 2008) - Music and narration by Nana Korantema

New aquisitions

March 2010
Letter, three DVDs, two programs, etc., from AHAADE Alumni

Letter and photographs from alumna Barbara Kinney

Penn State DVD Profiles in Excellence on Arthur's 1980 Hazlett Award



November 2009
Renaissance on Sacred Ground (2009 DVD, 21:35)
Produced by the Ile Ife Alumni, Village of the Arts and Humanities, and Scribe Video Center
With extensive use of images from our 2008 Renaissance on Sacred Ground (AHC DVD 2008)

July 2009
Sweet Saturday Nite materials from the Rev. Margo Blake

J. Lautin research materials and letter, July 10, 2009


May 2009
Raymond Hartung letter re: distribution of ILE IFE House of Love

March and August 2008
Fat Tuesday (and all that jazz!) materials provided by Wesley Brustad
Including the creation of Beta-SP preservation masters of the original broadcast

December 2008
Barbara C. Wallace, 50 Years and Counting: The Legendary Art and Genius of Arthur Hall

(2008, StarSpirit Press, Philadelphia)

August 2008

Nana Akomfohene Korantema Ayeboafo, Celebrating the Life of Nana Akomfohene Akua Oparebea
(2006, StarSpirit Press, Philadelphia)

Nana Akomfohene Korantema Ayeboafo, Tigare Speaks: Lessons for Living in Harmony

(2005, StarSpirit Press, Philadelphia)

Barbara C. Wallace, African Shamans and Ancient Shrines

(2008, StarSpirit Press, Philadelphia)

August 2008
The Greatest Love by Nana Korantema Ayeboafo (2007)

Alignment by Nana Korantema Ayeboafo and the African Ensemble (2008)

Materials and information sought

Index of Materials in the Arthur Hall Collection

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