Description: Elba Farabegoli Gurzau papers

Elba Farabegoli Gurzau papers

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Main Author:	Gurzau, Elba Farabegoli (Creator)
Collection:	Elba Farabegoli Gurzau Papers
Collection Number:	MSS048
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	American Medical Relief for Italy of Pennsylvania. Ballerini Dance Group. English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers. Folk Dance Leaders Council (Philadelphia, Pa.). Folk dancing, Italian. Folk dancing. Folk Festival Council of New York (New York, N.Y.). Italian Americans > Social life and customs. Italian Folk Arts Federation of America. Italian Mothers' Clubs (New York, N.Y.). Nationalities Service Center (Philadelphia, Pa.). Philadelphia Committee for Italian Relief. Social work with immigrants > New York (State) > New York. Social work with immigrants > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
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Physical Description:	13.8 Linear feet 13.8 linear feet, 39 boxes
Summary:	Elba Farabegoli Gurzau was born in New York City, the only child of Italian immigrants. Educated in Italy and in New York City, she has pursued simultaneous careers as a social service worker with immigrants in New York and after 1942 in Philadelphia, and a folk dance promoter. The papers include personal papers and diaries; correspondence, organizational records and ephemera from folk dance and folk arts groups; professional files from her work with the New York YWCA's Italian Mothers' Club program in the 1930s, the Philadelphia International Institute (later the Nationalities Service Center), 1942-1981, and the Philadelphia Committee for Italian Relief in the late 1940s; and drafts and research files for her book Folk Dances, Costumes, and Customs of Italy. Folk arts groups represented include Folk Festival Council of New York, Coro D'Italia and Esperia Dancers, all of New York City, and I Vivaci, Folk Dance Leaders Council, Folk Dance Demonstration Group, and I Ballerini, all of Philadelphia. The papers also include extensive records of the Italian Folk Arts Federation of America, which Gurzau helped to found in the 1970s. For related materials see records of Italian Folk Arts Federation of America.

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13.8 Linear feet 13.8 linear feet, 39 boxes

Summary:

Elba Farabegoli Gurzau was born in New York City, the only child of Italian immigrants. Educated in Italy and in New York City, she has pursued simultaneous careers as a social service worker with immigrants in New York and after 1942 in Philadelphia, and a folk dance promoter. The papers include personal papers and diaries; correspondence, organizational records and ephemera from folk dance and folk arts groups; professional files from her work with the New York YWCA's Italian Mothers' Club program in the 1930s, the Philadelphia International Institute (later the Nationalities Service Center), 1942-1981, and the Philadelphia Committee for Italian Relief in the late 1940s; and drafts and research files for her book Folk Dances, Costumes, and Customs of Italy. Folk arts groups represented include Folk Festival Council of New York, Coro D'Italia and Esperia Dancers, all of New York City, and I Vivaci, Folk Dance Leaders Council, Folk Dance Demonstration Group, and I Ballerini, all of Philadelphia. The papers also include extensive records of the Italian Folk Arts Federation of America, which Gurzau helped to found in the 1970s. For related materials see records of Italian Folk Arts Federation of America.

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