Guide to the Claire Holt Papers,
1927-1970.

Collection Number: 14-27-2648

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Date completed:

November 2012

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© 2012 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Claire Holt papers, 1927-1970.

Correspondence, Photographs, Research Materials

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Collection consists of slides, correspondence, and research materials of Claire Holt.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Journalist.

Claire Holt was born in Riga, Latvia in 1901. She served as a reporter for the The New York World, publishing dance reviews. She traveled to Indonesia in 1930, where she studied dance, working with the anthropologist Willem Stutterheim and then assisting the Swedish dance archivist and patron Rolf de Mare with his photo and film documentation of Indonesian dance. She returned to the U.S. and served as a research assistant to Margaret Mead, as a research analyst for the Office of Strategic Services, and as a foreign affairs specialist for the State Department. She then came to Cornell University, where in 1962, she helped found the Modern Indonesia Project.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection consists of slides of Indonesia created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project. Subjects include art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and theater. Collection also includes research materials, typescript notes about a trip to Indonesia in 1955-1956, index cards relating to Holt's work and travel in Indonesia, and materials from the dedication of the Claire Holt Memorial Collection Inauguration Ceremony at Lembaga, August 6, 1970.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Holt, Claire.

Cornell University. Indonesian Arts Project.

Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program.

Subjects:

Art, Indonesian.

Arts, Indonesian.

Painting, Indonesian.

Sculpture, Indonesian.

Dancing -- Indonesia.

Theater -- Indonesia.

Places:

Indonesia -- Description and travel -- Views.

Form and Genre Terms:

Color slides.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Claire Holt papers, #14-27-2648. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

The Claire Holt Collection of Indonesian Dance and Related Arts is located in the Dance Division of the New York Public Library.

NOTES

SERIES LIST

Series I. Visual Materials

Series II. Correspondence

Subseries IIa. Individuals

Subseries IIb. Groups and Organizations

Series III. Research Materials

Series IV. Lectures and Writings

Series V. Cornell Indonesian Arts Program

Series VI. Claire Holt Memorial Collection

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Visual Materials
	Slides S1-S280	Box 1
	Slides S281-S468	Box 2
	Slides S469-S693	Box 3
	Slides S684-S871	Box 4
	Slides S872-S1101	Box 5
	Slides S1102-SA125	Box 6
	Slides SA126-SD111	Box 7
	Slides SD112-SD209	Box 8
1955-1956	Travel notebooks with labelled photographs	Box 9
	Catalog of Claire Holt's slides	Box 13	Folder 37
	Four miscellaneous photographs	Box 13	Folder 42
	Black and white negatives	Box 18
	CDs- digitized slides	Box 20
	CDs- digitized slides	Box 21
	Series II. Correspondence
	Subseries IIa. Individuals
1936-1939	Miscellaneous, Boston	Box 10	Folder 1
March-August 1946	Miscellaneous	Box 10	Folder 3
1948-1952	Correspondence	Box 10	Folder 4
1946-1953	Miscellaneous	Box 10	Folder 5
1957-1958	U.S. miscellaneous	Box 10	Folder 6
1956-1967	Miscellaneous individual and regional	Box 10	Folder 7
1962	Affandi visit and exhibition	Box 10	Folder 8
1957-1958	Bagong and Wisnu, narration and programs	Box 10	Folder 9
1956-1969	Bandung "Seni Rupa", miscellaneous	Box 10	Folder 10
1929	Biddle, George	Box 10	Folder 11
1955-1961	Budiardjo, Ali and Mill. Djakarta	Box 10	Folder 12
1939-1940	Dr. Cense, regarding dance quest	Box 10	Folder 13
1952-1963	de Madre, Rolf . Sumatra	Box 10	Folder 14
1950-1959	Fahs, Charles. Rockefeller Foundation	Box 10	Folder 15
1956-1963	Hadian, Sukarno Joguja	Box 10	Folder 16
November 1962	Hasan, Djaafar	Box 10	Folder 17
1962	Heine-Geldern, Robert. Lectures and visit, sea program	Box 10	Folder 18
1968-1969	Hoykaas, Chris. London	Box 10	Folder 19
1963-1968	Hsii, C.M.. Djakarta	Box 10	Folder 20
1964-1966	Indonesian visitors to USA, Ithaca	Box 10	Folder 21
1962-1970	Kats, Ivan	Box 10	Folder 22
March 1966	Kats, Ivan. "Tiger Tiger" translation	Box 10	Folder 23
1958	Keuning, J. Regarding Toba Batick article	Box 10	Folder 24
1956-1959	Kusnadi, Jogjukarta	Box 10	Folder 25
1964	Kusnadi's visit	Box 10	Folder 26
1958-1959	Kussudiardjo, Bagong. Includes three photographs	Box 10	Folder 27
1968-1969	Kusumobroto, Sri	Box 10	Folder 28
1967-1969	Lomax, Alan	Box 10	Folder 29
1970	Lombard, Denys	Box 10	Folder 30
1932-1941	Mangkeonagoro VII	Box 10	Folder 31
1964-1969	McCray, Porter P.	Box 10	Folder 32
1967-1969	Moertono, Soemarsaid	Box 10	Folder 33
1962-1970	Muchtar, But. Bangdung	Box 10	Folder 34
1967	Noom, Yunaidharma visit	Box 10	Folder 35
1970	Papadimitriou, Alexis	Box 10	Folder 36
1960-1968	Parker, Harrison. Djakarta	Box 10	Folder 37
1960-1967	Raffel, Burton. Regarding Indonesian poetry	Box 10	Folder 38
1955-1970	Resink, GJ. Djakarta-Amsterdam	Box 10	Folder 39
1967-1968	Resink, Th.. Translations for Indonesia	Box 10	Folder 40
1939-1969	Rhodius, Hans. Geneva-Amsterdam	Box 10	Folder 41
1956-1958	Said, Jusuf. Medan, Sumatra	Box 10	Folder 42
1969	Scott, AC	Box 10	Folder 43
1954-1970	Smith, Datus Jr. (JDR 3rd fund)	Box 10	Folder 44
1964-1966	Soemardjan, Selo. Djakarta	Box 10	Folder 45
1956-1957	Solo miscellaneous	Box 10	Folder 46
	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 47
1927-1940	Receipts and telegrams to Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 48
1929-1930	Poems by Holt and Stutterheim. Includes three miscellaneous photographs	Box 10	Folder 49
1931-1939	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 50
January-June 1932	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 51
July-December 1932	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 52
1933	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 53
1937-1938	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 54
1939-1941	Stutterheim	Box 10	Folder 55
1955-1969	Sudjatmoko	Box 10	Folder 56
1955-1956	Surabaya miscellaneous	Box 10	Folder 57
1965	Tirtaamidjaja, Ivan (dance project)	Box 10	Folder 58
1966-1969	Soedarsono, Asti	Box 10	Folder 59
1958-1959	Trisno, Sumardjo. Djakarta	Box 10	Folder 60
1968-1970	Underwood, Dixon F.	Box 10	Folder 61
1970	Van der Veur, Paul. Ohio University	Box 10	Folder 62
1939-1941	Van Erp, Theo and Betsy	Box 10	Folder 63
1968	Van Erp, John	Box 10	Folder 64
1965-1969	Van Lohuizen, Dr. Leeuw, Dr. Johanna E.	Box 10	Folder 65
1958-1959	Wisnuwardana, Jogjakarta	Box 10	Folder 66
1957	Yudhokusumo, Kartono and his father	Box 10	Folder 67
	Subseries IIb. Groups and organizations
1939-1940	Art Association, patrons etc.	Box 10	Folder 68
1944-1946	Asian associations	Box 10	Folder 69
1945-1948	Asian associations	Box 10	Folder 70
March-May 1948	Asian associations	Box 10	Folder 71
May-June 1948	Asian associations	Box 10	Folder 72
1957-1959	The Asia Society	Box 11	Folder 1
1960-1967	The Asia Society: Sherbet, Landry and Sorensen, Wendy	Box 11	Folder 3
1963-1965	The Asia Society notes	Box 11	Folder 4
1964-1965	Asia Society Indonesia Council, Committee on Archaeology and Art History. Notes and Correspondence	Box 11	Folder 5
1966-1969	The Asia Society: Wendy S. Fund	Box 11	Folder 6
1966-1969	The Asia Society notes and correspondence	Box 11	Folder 7
Jan.-Feb. 1969	The Asia Society tour	Box 11	Folder 8
1956-1958	Bali miscellaneou	Box 11	Folder 9
1967	Balinese cloth painting, with photographs and negatives	Box 11	Folder 10
1960-1965	Translation for Congress for cultural freedom	Box 11	Folder 11
1961-1963	Translation for Congress for Cultural Freedom	Box 11	Folder 12
1954-1970	Intra-Cornell	Box 11	Folder 13
1959-1968	Cornell Southeast Asia Program	Box 11	Folder 14
1961	Cornell- But Muchtar and Srihai art exhibition, White Museum	Box 11	Folder 15
1957-1958	Cornell public relations	Box 11	Folder 16
1968	Cornell University Press and Public Relations	Box 11	Folder 17
1959-1969	Djakarta miscellaneous	Box 11	Folder 18
April-July 1946	East Asia Institute	Box 11	Folder 19
September-October 1946	East Asia Institute	Box 11	Folder 20
October-November 1946	East Asia Institute	Box 11	Folder 21
March-June 1944	East Indies Institute of America	Box 11	Folder 22
1944-1945	East Indies Institute of America	Box 11	Folder 23
1944-1945	East Indies Institute of America	Box 11	Folder 24
1946-1953	Holland	Box 11	Folder 25
1955-1957	Contracts to and from Indonesia	Box 11	Folder 26
1946-1953	Indonesia	Box 11	Folder 26A
1955-1970	Indonesia, Embassy and Consulate General	Box 11	Folder 27
1956-1967	Jogujakarta	Box 11	Folder 28
1955	Kraton, Mosque, Pendopo	Box 11	Folder 29
1936-1948	Lecture engagements	Box 11	Folder 30
1968-1969	National Archaeological Institute	Box 11	Folder 31
1957-1965	Professional	Box 11	Folder 32
1961-1963	Professional	Box 11	Folder 33
1962-1964	Professional	Box 11	Folder 34
1965-1968	Professional, includes some photographs	Box 11	Folder 35
1967-1968	Professional	Box 11	Folder 36
1959-1965	Rockefeller Foundation	Box 11	Folder 37
1956-1959	Sumatra miscellaneous	Box 11	Folder 38
1958-1959	Universities and colleges: Harvard, Michigan, California	Box 11	Folder 39
1944	The Viking Fund	Box 11	Folder 40
1957	Wayang Kulit Purwa translation	Box 11	Folder 41
1968	White House Dinner	Box 11	Folder 42
1961-1962	Yale-Southeast Asia Studies	Box 11	Folder 43
	Series III. Research Materials
	Wax seals	Box 5 MS
	Research notes	Box 12	Folder 1
	Research material and correspondence	Box 12	Folder 2
	Miscellaneous research	Box 12	Folder 3
	Unused notes	Box 12	Folder 4
	Appendix V- Art Associations	Box 12	Folder 5
	Art Associations in Indonesia	Box 12	Folder 6
	'Art in Indonesia' bibliography	Box 12	Folder 7
	Selected readings for 'cultural roots' symposium	Box 12	Folder 8
	Biographies	Box 12	Folder 9
	Dance research notes	Box 12	Folder 10
	Index to research files	Box 12	Folder 11
	Indonesia	Box 12	Folder 12
	Theoretical/sociological integration	Box 12	Folder 13
1937-1957	Bangkok	Box 12	Folder 14
1940	Proposal for a dance institute	Box 12	Folder 15
1942-1950	Southeast Asia	Box 12	Folder 16
1942-1961	Art- philosophical and anthropological bits	Box 12	Folder 17
1943-1945	Indonesia	Box 12	Folder 18
1943-1953	Research materials	Box 12	Folder 19
1945-1947	Professional affiliations- South East Asia Institute minutes	Box 12	Folder 20
1945-1958	Intercultural materials	Box 12	Folder 21
1946-1949	Indonesia- Education	Box 12	Folder 22
1946-1950	Art- theoretical and anthropological	Box 12	Folder 23
1946-1950	China	Box 12	Folder 24
1946-1952	Indonesia	Box 12	Folder 25
1946-1962	Japan-U.S. policy in sea	Box 12	Folder 26
1949	Research material	Box 12	Folder 27
1949-1951	International theory and practice	Box 12	Folder 28
1949-1952	Theoretical, anthropological values	Box 12	Folder 29
1949-1953	Southeast Asia	Box 12	Folder 30
1950	"Classical Dance and Costumes of India" by Kay Ambrose	Box 12	Folder 31
1950-1956	Indonesia	Box 12	Folder 32
1950-1960s	Indonesian music	Box 12	Folder 33
1951	"The Role of the Chinese in Indonesia" by Robert C. Bone Jr. Includes cassette.	Box 12	Folder 34
1951-1952	Research material	Box 12	Folder 35
1951-1956	Cross cultural materials	Box 12	Folder 36
1953-1956	General bibliographies	Box 13	Folder 1
1954	Java, article by FDK Bosch	Box 13	Folder 2
1955-1956	Travel notes	Box 13	Folder 3
1956	Travel notes	Box 13	Folder 4
1956	Scrapbook	Box 13	Folder 5
1956-1958	Lee Man Fong biography	Box 13	Folder 6
1958	Music records lists	Box 13	Folder 7
1958	"Indonesian Government's Policy Towards Art", by R.K. Vasil	Box 13	Folder 8
1959	Historical Appendix	Box 13	Folder 9
1964-1967	Art objects list	Box 13	Folder 10
1966-1967	Committee on Archaeological and A.M. Indonesian Council	Box 13	Folder 11
1967	Museums in Indonesia	Box 13	Folder 12
1967	'Kinesics' paper by R. Birdwhistell, creative dance in therapy, bender and social dance	Box 13	Folder 13
	Index cards with research notes	Box 14, 15, 17
	Series IV. Lectures and Writings
	Archaeological service: Jakarta	Box 13	Folder 14
	Modern Art Bali (Bali-Java comparison)	Box 13	Folder 15
1936-1942	Dance lectures	Box 13	Folder 16
1941	'Dance: Form and Function' Bali Fracisca Baos School Seminar	Box 13	Folder 17
1941-1945	Papers	Box 13	Folder 17A
1942	Columbia University class materials, Navy School International administration	Box 13	Folder 18
March 1944	Integration of Language and Culture Study	Box 13	Folder 19
1944	"Ardjo Travels Light", for Asia	Box 13	Folder 20
February-May 1956	Article for Konfrontasi	Box 13	Folder 21
1956	'A Few Contemplations on Dance', 'Two Dance Worlds'. Indonesian version	Box 13	Folder 22
1956-1957	Texts and lectures/articles	Box 13	Folder 23
1957	Indonesian arts and crafts, AD White Museum. Includes photographs	Box 13	Folder 24
1957	'Some Observations on the Visual Arts in Indonesia Today', article for Saraswati	Box 13	Folder 25
1957-1963	Extra curricular lectures	Box 13	Folder 26
1964	Lecture performance Wayang Kulit	Box 13	Folder 27
1969	'Dances in Sumatra', Cornell sea program	Box 13	Folder 28
1957-1962	Synopses by Holt: Ramayana, Mahabharata, Ardjuna Wiwaha, Pandji, and Damar Wulan	Box 13	Folder 29
1960s	Photograph list for Art in Indonesia	Box 13	Folder 38
1961-1969	Cornell University Press permissions for illustrations and quotes	Box 13	Folder 30
1963-1965	"Art in Indonesia" correspondence, re-illustrations and quotes	Box 13	Folder 31
1967	F. Siegel course lecture, Department of Anthropology	Box 13	Folder 32
1967-1968	"Art in Indonesia": responses	Box 13	Folder 33
1967-1968	"Art in Indonesia" second edition materials for corrections	Box 13	Folder 34
1968	In memoriam- Robert Heine-Geldern. For Indonesia.	Box 13	Folder 35
	The Story of Tchoopak and Granting, text and art	Box 13	Folder 36
	Series V. Cornell Indonesian Arts Project
1933-1955	Dance	Box 19	Folder 1
	Programs, Wajung/Lakons	Box 19	Folder 2
1949	Biographical information	Box 19	Folder 4
1950s	ICA report on visual aids	Box 19	Folder 5
1950s-1960s	Batik information and photographs	Box 19	Folder 6
1950-1955	Asri, Jojga	Box 19	Folder 7
1950-1957	Conferences, NGWS	Box 19	Folder 8
1951-1956	Governmental budgets and policies	Box 19	Folder 9
1952-1955	Sticusa	Box 19	Folder 10
1951-1958	"Art Today," arts and crafts	Box 19	Folder 11
1952-1956	Cultural change	Box 19	Folder 12
1954	Drafts of project	Box 19	Folder 13
1954-1955	"Fine Arts" Bandung	Box 19	Folder 14
1954-1955	Sumatra art associations	Box 19	Folder 15
1954-1955	Travel arrangements (field)	Box 19	Folder 16
1954-1958	Financial basic budget	Box 19	Folder 17
1955	Symbols	Box 19	Folder 18
1955	Sukarno	Box 19	Folder 19
1955	Painting Badan Kontak	Box 19	Folder 20
1955	Dance	Box 19	Folder 21
1955-1956	Solo art associations	Box 19	Folder 22
1955-1956	Art criticism and writings on	Box 19	Folder 23
1955-1956	Dance programs	Box 19	Folder 24
1955-1956	Painting- catalogues I	Box 19	Folder 25
1955-1960	Painting-catalogues II	Box 19	Folder 26
1955-1958	Catalgoues III- Pelukis Rakjat	Box 19	Folder 27
1955-1967	AMIATI	Box 19	Folder 28
1956	Jakarta associations	Box 19	Folder 29
1956	Art associations, Jogja	Box 19	Folder 30
1956	Jogja-Gadjah Mada	Box 19	Folder 31
1956	Monuments, Musea	Box 19	Folder 32
1956	Sumatra art education	Box 19	Folder 33
1956	Sumatra-Itineraries, addresses, contacts, events	Box 19	Folder 34
1956	Yanto Painting	Box 19	Folder 35
1956-1957	Badan Musjawarat Kebudajaan Nasional (BMKN) almanac	Box 19	Folder 36
1956-1959	Programs-drama	Box 19	Folder 37
1956-1964	Bali Art	Box 19	Folder 38
	Post 1957 developments	Box 19	Folder 39
1959	LKN cultural organizations	Box 19	Folder 40
1956	Lekra	Box 19	Folder 41
1959-1960	Dance-KBW	Box 19	Folder 42
1962	Bandung Painters	Box 19	Folder 43
1962-1963	Affandi-biographical	Box 19	Folder 44
1967-1968	Painting-biographical	Box 19	Folder 45
1969	Collectors of Modern Art	Box 19	Folder 46
	Series VI. Claire Holt Memorial Collection
August 6, 1987	Audio tape: dedication of the Claire Holt memorial, inauguration ceremony at Lembaga. Two copies. Part I. TR-7988	Box 13	Folder 39
August 6, 1970	Audio tape: dedication of the Claire Holt memorial, inauguration ceremony at Lembaga. Two copies. Part II. TR-7989	Box 13	Folder 40
August 6, 1970	Photographs and typescript of Claire Holt memorial inauguration ceremony	Box 13	Folder 41

Guide to the Claire Holt Papers,1927-1970.

Collection Number: 14-27-2648

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2012 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Claire Holt Papers,
1927-1970.

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library