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Series 3: Photographs of the Gertrude Hoffmann Girls

Subseries 1: Individual Portraits

Ann Sweeney photos, circa 1920s

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bloom portraits, 1920s-1930s

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Empire portraits, circa 1930s

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mixed individual portraits, circa 1930s

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Full body portraits

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

By Waléry (circa 1925), Celebrity (circa 1920s), and Canell (1930s).

Canell headshots, circa 1930s

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries 2: Group Photographs

Travel photographs, 1920s-1930s

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mixed publicity photographs, 1920s-1930s

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Includes images of Hoffmann with the girls.

Subseries 3: Rehearsal and Performance Photographs

Waléry stage photos, circa 1925

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mixed performance photos, 1920s-1930s

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Some have Hoffmann's notes on the versos.

Brighton Hippodrome backstage photographs, 1939

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Balloon Barrage" performance, circa 1920s

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sword Routine, circa 1934

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rehearsal photographs of acrobatic routine by Arthur Sasse, 1938

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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