
(*) Retrieved from: Fifteen years of a dancer’s life, with some account of her distinguished friends / with an introduction by Anatole France (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.,1913) | src NYPL Research Catalog


images that haunt us

(*) Retrieved from: Fifteen years of a dancer’s life, with some account of her distinguished friends / with an introduction by Anatole France (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.,1913) | src NYPL Research Catalog



On verso: “Wiener Foto-Kurier” agency stamp, label with text: “Hedy Pfundmayer (sic), Primaballerina de l’opera a Vienne comme ‘Salome'”. Also, several annotations in pencil on the reverse, as: “Berhümte Solo Tänzerin […] die Tänzerin Pfundmaier (sic)”.


(*) The archives of the Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, host two identical photographs [as the one above here] of Ruth Sorel Abramowitsch, one is captioned as performing the dance Matka and the other as Salome [respective reference id numbers are 3105/616/15 and 3105/616/16]. Both images are part of the same batch, corresponding to the First International Artistic Solo Dance Competition in Warsaw (June, 1933)
source of all images in this post : Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe









