CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: Katherine Dunham in costume in dressing room

Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist. For more than 30 years she maintained the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, the only permanent, self-subsidized African-American dance troupe at that time, and over her career she choreographed more than 90 individual dances.

The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of Morris Library has significant photographic collections that enhance and support each of its collection areas. These photographs are historically descriptive and documentary in nature. More than 100,000 images (1850 to present) document American, British and Irish theatre, American philosophy, Irish Literary Renaissance, Illinois politics, Illinois history, as well as Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

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