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ALBUMS
R4290 Volume 88 Brown ornate cover Shanghai Dance School and Shanghai Ballet Company 29 black and white photos of CF with children and young dancers in a studio
Green ornate cover Celia Franca and James Morton in China 15 b&w photos of JM and CF meeting with people and JM teaching music students and at a reception
R4290 Volume 86 Pink album with diamond pattern labeled Beijing dated June 10, 1980 Celia Franca and James Morton in China 36 b&w photos primarily of CF with students in classes 4 colour photographs
Pink album labeled Beijing Celia Franca in China 34 b&w photos of CF with students walking, eating and dancing
Maroon album with dragon pattern on cover Ballet company in China 20 7x9 b&w photographs mainly of ballet performances with a few of students in dance studio class
R4290 Volume 87 Brown album National Ballet of Canada 35th Anniversary Gala held at O’Keefe Centre. February 25, 1987 “Copies of Myrna Aaron’s photos” 88 colour photographs of those attending the gala, primarily 5x7s
R4290 Volume 88 Navy blue album Commemorative album given to CF by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Arts for Hearts Benefit, 2000 37 primarily 5x7 colour photos of attendees including Mitchell Sharp and wife, Marianne Scott and Hamilton Southam
R4290 Volume 85 Black binder Commemorative photographs from opening of the Celia Franca Centre in Toronto 24 colour digital scans
PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS
R4290 Volume 80 Folder 1 Photographs of CF as a young child, with her parents and her brother Vincent, photograph of family home in Grimsby and on vacation at the beach 18 b&w 2x3, 3x4
Photographs of CF with friends: Grant Strate; Walter Lore, Bill Meadmore; Peggy van Praagh, Pauline Clayden, Julia Farron and Margaret Dale; with members of the Metropolitan Ballet at the beach 14 b&w 3x5, 2 1/4x4, 2x3
Photographs of family home and with members of NB 5 b&w 5x7, 3x4
Photographs of Celia Franca with friends Anne Lascelles, Kay Ambrose, and Grant Strate 8 b&w 3x5
Total for folder: 45 small FINDING AID FOR CELIA FRANCA PHOTOS – 2007 DONATION TO LAC
Folder 2 Photographs of CF and her parents 9 b&w 4x6, 2x3
Photographs of CF in grade school classes, her brother Vincent in South African Army, her parents and Aunt 11 b&w 3 ½ X 5 ½
Total for folder: 20 small b&w
Folder 3 Photographs of CF with members of Metropolitan Ballet 14 b&w 2x2
Photographs of CF with members of Metropolitan Ballet 14 b&w 2x2
Photograph of CF and members of Metropolitan Ballet 8 b&w 3x3, 5x7 etc.
Photographs of CF and members of NB 10 b&w 5x7, 3x4 etc.
Photographs of CF with Kay Ambrose and members of the Metropolitan Ballet 13 b&w 3 ½ X 3 ½, 2 ½ X 3 ½
Total for folder: 59 small
Folder 4 Photographs of Celia Franca with friends 13 b&w 3x4 etc.
Photographs of CF with friends, children and husband James Morton 9 b&w 2 1/4x4, 3x5 etc
Miscellaneous photographs of friends 7 b&w 2x3 etc.
Small album of beach scenes and loose snapshots of friends 6 b&w 3 ½x5, 2x3
Photographs of a group of people at a party in West Virginia 15 b&w 3 ½x5
Photographs of CF and friends vacationing 11 b&w 2 ½ x 2 ½
Total for folder: 61 small
Folder 5 Family photographs of parents, brother Vincent, grandmother Franks and CF 10 b&w (3½x5½, 1 5x8 digital print)
Photographs of CF, her parents, and brother Vincent - several on souvenir album sheets 12 b&w 2x3, 2 ¼x 3 etc.
Total for folder: 22 small, 1 digital
Folder 6 Snapshots of members of the National Ballet touring with CF 28 b&w 3¼x3¼, 4x5)
Snapshots of CF and others while on tour 10 b&w 2 ¼x2¼, 3x3 etc.
Total for folder: 38 small
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PORTRAITS INFORMAL
Folder 7 Portrait snapshots of CF and others from NB and touring in Birmingham, Alabama 6 b&w 5x7
Portrait snapshots of CF alone and with friends 7 b&w 3 ½ X 4 ½, 2x3
Portraits of Leo Kersley (CF’s first husband) 2 b&w 5x7, 3x5
Portraits of CF at party and posing 2 b&w 5x7, 3x5
Portraits of CF with friends, at party and in dressing-room 5 b&w 5x7, 3x5
Portraits of others including Roloff Beny, Glenn Gould, Kay Ambrose, Clifford Hall and others. 9 b&w 5x7, 4x5, 8x10
Portraits of CF with cat and in rehearsal 4 b&w 8x10
Portraits of CF with friends at events, including Rudolf Nureyev 10 8x10, 1 5x7
Portrait of CF with Stanislas Idzikowski 1 b&w 3x5
Total for folder: 31 small, 14 8x10
PORTRAITS FORMAL
Folder 8 CF by Ken Bell 9 b&w 8x10, 2 contact sheets
CF by Ken Bell 6 b&w 8x10, 5 5x7)
CF by Ken Bell for “Toushay Lotion” advertisement 2 b&w 8x10, 2 contact sheets
CF by Ken Bell 4 b&w 5x7
Total for folder: 17 8x10, 9 5x7, 4 contact sheets)
Folder 9 Portraits of CF and Jay Morton – by Ken Bell?? 14 b&w 4½x 4½, 5x7, 2x2
Portraits of CF and Jay Morton by Anthony Crickmay 18 b&w 8x10
Portraits of CF by Anthony Crickmay 6 8x10
Total for folder: 14 b&w 5x7, 24 8x10
Folder 10
Portraits of CF by Peter Croydon 3 b&w 8x10, 8 5x7
Portraits of CF by Janine Photo Studio
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1 album containing 10 5x7 proof prints 3 8x10
Portraits of CF and one of CF with Jay Morton by “Towers” 8 b&w 8x10
Portraits of CF in evening gown by Henry Fox 1 contact sheet 2 b&w 8X10
Total for folder: 16 b&w 8x10, 8 5x7
Folder 11 Portraits of CF, many early in her career by Roland Federn, Tunbridge and unidentified 3 b&w 8x10, 5 8x6, 2, 5x7, 1 2x2
Portrait of CF as Lady Capulet 1 b&w 8x10
Publicity portraits of CF by Duncan Melvin 10 b&w 3 ½ x 5
Publicity cards of CF 5 b&w 3 ½ x 5
Portraits of CF throughout her career and with others 8 b&w 8x10, 2 5x7, 6x8
Total for folder: 12 b&w 8x10, 22 5x7 etc.
Folder 12 Portraits of CF by Paul Latour 3 b&w 8x10
Portraits of CF at home by Michael Bedford 4 b&w 8x10, 2 5x6
Portrait of CF and Franco Mannino by Fernand Leclair 1 8x10
Portraits of CF by John Reeves 4 b&w 5x7
Total for folder: 8 b&w 8x10, 6 5x6 etc.
Folder 13 Teaching – China Publicity shots of ballet company 10 b&w 5x7
Teaching – China Publicity shots of ballet company 7 b&w 5x7
Teaching – China 9 b&w 3x5
Teaching – China, official tea party 12 b&w 5x7, 1 6x8, 1 4x8
Teaching – China; Beijing and Peking dance academies 8 b&w 3x5
Total for folder: 31 b&w 5x7, 17 3x5 etc.
Folder 14 Teaching – National Ballet; CF with students including Veronica Tennant 5 b&w 8x10, 1 5x7, 1 3x5
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Teaching – National Ballet; CF with students including Veronica Tennant 13 b&w 5x7
Teaching – National Ballet 4 b&w 5x7, 1 8x10, 1 6x6
Total for folder: 6 b&w 8x10, 19 5x7, 1 3x5
Folder 15 National Ballet – informal snapshots 8 b&w 2x3 etc.
National Ballet – informal snapshots 9 b&w 4x5
National Ballet – informal snapshots 10 b&w 2 1/4 x 2 1/4
National Ballet – informal snapshots 10 b&w 2 1/4 x 2 ¼
Total for folder: 37 small b&2 2 x3, 3x5 etc.
Folder 16 Events – Unidentified 3 b&w 5x7
Events – Unidentified; CF with Peter Brison, Dame Alicia Markova 1 b&w 6x8
Events – Unidentified 1 b&w 8x10, 1 6x8
Events – CF after performance with Vincent Massey; party celebration photographed by Elizabeth Frey 6 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 7 b&w 8x10, 5 5x7 etc.
Folder 17 Photo files – Career highlights (compiled by CF)
18 b&w 5x7 (see colour box for additional photos from same file)
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Folder 1 Performance/publicity - La Syphilde in London, 1970. CF with Princess Anne, photographed by Anthony Crickmay 3 b&w 8x10, 2 5x7
Performance/publicity - La Syphilde in London, 1970. CF with Princess Anne, photographed by Anthony Crickmay 4 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity - La Syphilde in London, 1970. Photos by Ken Bell and Jones and Morris 6 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity - La Syphilde in London, 1970. 10 b&w 8X10
Performance/publicity – La Syphilde in London, 1970
Total for folder: 23 b&w 8x10, 2 5x7
Folder 2 Performance/publicity - Gisèle
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4 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity - Gisèle photographed by Ken Bell. 12 b&w 8x10, 1 6x8
Performance/publicity – Gisèle photographed by Ken Bell 3 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 19 b&w 8x10
Folder 3 Performance/publicity – Gisèle photographed by E. Bordes Mangel 14 b&w 5x7
Performance/publicity – Gisèle photographed by Eileen and Nelson Smith for “Ballet Today” 15 b&w 4 ½ x 6 ½
Performance/publicity – Gisèle performed at the Royal Alexandra Hall, photographed by Ken Bell 9 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 9 b&w 8x10, 29 5x7
Folder 4 Performance/publicity – Lilac Garden, photographed by Ken Bell, with David Adams and Lois Smith 6 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Lilac Garden, photographed by Ken Bell, with David Adams and Lois Smith 9 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Lilac Garden, various photographers, with David Adams and Lois Smith 10 b&w 8x10, 4 digital b&w scans
Total for folder: 25 b&w 8x10, 4 digital prints
Folder 5 Performance/publicity – Coppelia, photographed by Ken Bell and John Grange, with Earl Kraul 7 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Coppelia, first appearance by CF in Canada at Varsity Arena, Toronto 1 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – various productions with the Sadler’s Wells company 6 b&w 5x7
Performance/publicity – The Spider’s Banquet, Sadler’s Wells, 1944 1 b&w 6x8
Total for folder: 8 b&w 8x10, 7 5x7 etc.
Folder 6 Performance/publicity – The Lesson 5 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Winter Night, photographed by Ken Bell 5 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Lady from the Sea, photographed by Ken Bell 3 b&w 8x10, 4 b&w digital scans
Total for folder: 13 b&w 8x10, 4 digital
Folder 7 Performance/publicity – Romeo and Juliet, photographed by Ken Bell 10 b&w 8x10
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Performance/publicity – Romeo and Juliet, City New photo; Hubert Humphrey, Veronica Tennant, Earl Kraul, CF etc. 1 b&w 8x10, 2 digital scans
Performance/publicity – Romeo and Juliet; CF with Hubert Humphrey 4 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 15 b&w 8x10, 2 digital scans
Folder 8 Performance/publicity – “Eh” New Orleans Ballet Company 2 b&w 8x10, 6 5x7
Performance/publicity – Salomé 2 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Sleeping Beauty; CF as Carabosse 1 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – La Gaspesienne 2 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – various dancers 6 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 13 b&w 8x10, 6 5x7
Folder 9 Performance/publicity – Offenbach in the Underground, photographed by Andrew Oxenham 10 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Offenbach in the Underground, photographed by Ken Bell 7 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 17 b&w 8x10
Folder 10 Performance/publicity – Les Rendez-vous 5 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – L’Après-midi 3 b&w 8x10, 6 digital scans
Performance/publicity – House of Atreus 7 b&w 5x7
Performance/publicity – House of Atreus 8 b&w 5x7
Total for folder: 8 b&w 8x10, 15 5x7, 6 digital
Folder 11 Performance/publicity – Bayaderka (?) 8 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Bayaderka (?) 4 b&w 8x10, 1 5x7
Performance/publicity – Carnaval 1946 1 b&w 8x10, 1 3x4
Performance/publicity – Desyns with Strings, Concerto, Midas, Dances from Galanta, unidentified 8 b&w 6x8, 2 5x7
Total for folder: 13 b&w 8x10, 4 5x7
Folder 12
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Performance/publicity – The Quest 1940s 4 b&w 31/2 x 5
Performance/publicity – Khadra 6 b&w 4x6, 1 5x7, 1 3½ x 5
Performance/publicity – Swan Lake, CF as Queen Mother 1 5x7
Performance/publicity – Swan Lake, photographed by Ken Bell 4 b&w 8x10, 1 5x7
Performance/publicity – Swan Lake, CF with Roland Michener 1 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Swan Lake, CF choreographing for CBC broadcast 1 b&w 5x7
Total for folder: 5 b&w 8x10, 15 5x7 etc.
Folder 13 Performance/publicity – Dark Elegies, photographed by Ken Bell 3 b&w 8x10, 1 5x7
Performance/publicity – Spectre of the Rose, unidentified, photographed by Duncan Melvin 2 b&w 6x8, 2 5x7
Performance/publicity – Princess Margaret, Paul Martin Sr., photographed by Desmond O’Neill 2 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Étude, New Brunswick School 1 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Miscellaneous productions 6 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Gala 6 b&w 8x10, 1 4x6
Total for folder: 17 b&w 8x10, 6 5x7 etc.
Folder 14 Performance/publicity – Bailemos; CF with Sadler Wells Ballet 8 b&w 5x7
Performance/publicity – Bailemos; CF with Sadler Wells Ballet 8 b&w 5x7
Performance/publicity – Swan Lake and unidentified 6 b&w 5x7, 4 digital scans
Performance/publicity – CF and Erik Bruhn with the Metropolitan Ballet 1 b&w 8x10, 4 5x7, 1 3½x5
Performance/publicity – Unidentified 2 b&w 5x7
Performance/publicity – CF with television host Brian Linehan 1 b&w 5x7
Total for folder: 1 b&w 8x10, 30 5x7 etc.
Folder 15 Performance/publicity – National Ballet, photographed by Ken Bell 10 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Les Ballets Quebec, photographed by Percy Dean 5 b&w 8x10
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Performance/publicity – National Ballet, one by Anthony Crickmay 4 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity – Nutcracker, costume designs 6 b&w 8x10, 3 4x5, 1 contact sheet
Performance/publicity – National Ballet rehearsal 7 b&w 5x7
Total for folder: 25 b&2 8x10, 10 5x7 etc., 1 contact sheet
Folder 16 National Ballet – various dancers including Veronica Tennant and George Crum 7 b&w 8x10, 1 6x8
National Ballet – publicity; various dancers 6 b&w 8x10
National Ballet – various dancers including Lois Smith, Nadia Potts, Veronica Tennant and David Scott 10 b&w 8x10
National Ballet – various dancers 6 b&w 8x10, 3 5x7, 4 negatives
National Ballet 3 b&w 8x10, 2 8x8
National Ballet 10 b&w 8x10, 1 3x5
Total for folder: 42 b&w 8x10, 7 5x7, 4 negatives
Folder 17 Honours – University of Guelph 8 b&w 5x7
Honours – Variety Club of Canada 2 b&w 5x7
Honours – University of Toronto convocation speech 5 b&w 8x10
Honours – Miscellaneous 7 b&w 8x10, 1 5x7
Honours – Ontario Place 1 b&w 8x10
Honours – Companion of the Order of Canada 5 b&w 8x10
Honours – Unidentified university 5 b&w 8x10
Total for folder: 23 b&w 8x10, 11 5x7
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Folder 1 Personal snapshots – CF with family and friends 10 col. 3 ½ x 3 ½, 5 3x4
Personal snapshots – CF and Bob (?) 3 col. 3x4
Personal snapshots - CF
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4 col. 3x3
Personal snapshots – CF with Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant and others 14 col. 5x7
Personal snapshots – Dance St. Louis (?) 8 col. 5x7
Personal snapshots – CF with Jay Morton and others 9 col. 5x7
Personal Photographs – CF’s cats 11 col. 3 ½ x 3 ½
Personal Photographs – CF’s cats 12 col 3 ½ X 3 ½
Total for folder: 71 small format colour photographs
Folder 2 Portraits – Formal 2 col. 8x10, 2 8x8
Portraits – Formal; CF with Nancy Reagan and Mila Mulroney, Karen Kain and Alexander Grant 3 col. 8x10, 1 5x7
Portraits – Formal 3 col. 8x10, 1 oval
Portraits – Formal by John Reeves 4 col. 8x10, 2 2x3
Portraits – Formal 3 negatives
Portrait – 1 colour slide of painted portrait of CF by June Stichbury
Total for folder: 14 col. 8x10 etc., 4 small, 3 negs. 1 slide
Folder 3 Performance/publicity – Swan Lake 2 col. 8x10, 1 digital print
Performance/publicity – The Lesson 1 col. 4x6
Performance/publicity – “Eh” 13 col. 4x6
Performance/publicity – “Eh” 14 col. 4x6
Performance/publicity – La Syphilde 1 col. 5x7
Performance/publicity – informal snapshots unidentified 12 col. 4x6
Total for folder: 2 col. 8x10, 41 5x7 etc.
Folder 4 Performance/publicity – unidentified 2 col. 8x10, 1 5x7
Performance/publicity – informal; rehearsals for Swan Lake, CF choreographer 8 col. 5x7
Performance/publicity – farewell performance
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1 col. 5x7
National Ballet – informal snapshots while touring 5 col. 3x5, etc.
Total for folder: 2 col. 8x10, 15 5x7 etc
Folder 5 Teaching – China; tourism shots etc. 58 Polaroids in 6 envelopes 3 col. 5x7, 2 2x3
Teaching – China Peking (3 envelopes) 30 col. 3 ½ x 5 Shanghai (3 envelopes) 30 col. 3 ½ x 5 Hong Kong 12 col. 3 ½ x 5 Canton 5 col. 3 ½ x 5 Hangchow 15 col. 3 ½ x 5
Folder 6 Honours – Carleton University 1995 8 col. 8x10, 3 digital scans
Honours – Carleton University Hibiscus Tea Party 2000 56 col. 5x7
Total for folder: 8 col. 8x10, 56 5x7, 3 digital
Folder 7 Honours – Companion of the Order of Canada 1995 3 col. 5x7
Honours – Companion of the Order of Canada 1995 1 col. 8x10, 2 5x7
Honours – Unidentified; with Adrienne Clarkson 2 col. 5x7
Honours – Order of Ontario 1987 1 col. 8x10
Honours – Variety Club of Canada 1 col. 6x8
Honours – University of Toronto 1 col. 8x10
Total for folder: 3 col. 8x10, 8 5x7 etc.
Folder 8 Events – National Ballet of Canada 50th anniversary 2001 8 col. 3 ½ x 5
Events – Unidentified; with the Légers, Rudolf Nureyev, Marianne Scott, Flora McDonald 4 col. 5x7
Events – Unidentified; with Karen Kain 14 col. 5x7, 1 6x8
Events – 1st anniversary of Alberta Ballet 4 col. 4x5
Events – National Ballet School 35th anniversary, 3 colour digital scans
Events – Unidentified; Celia Franca, Rudolf Nureyev, Flora MacDonald
Total for folder: 43 small col. 5x7, etc.
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Folder 9 Photo files – Career highlights (compiled by CF) 16 col. 5x7
VOLUME 83 OVERSIZE MATERIAL – BLACK AND WHITE (folders are not necessarily in the same order)
Portraits of Celia Franca by Tunbridge – 4 b&w 9 x 13
Portrait of CF in oval form
Portraits of Celia Franca and James Morton with cats – 2 b&w 8x10
Portraits – Formal; Toller Cranston skating – 1 b&w 10 x 14
Honours – Celia Franca at convocation of University of Toronto – 1 b&w 8x10
Portrait of James Morton – 2 b&w 8x10
Portrait – Unidentified – 1 5x7 mounted
Portrait – Joanne Nesbitt-Scotts – 1 b&w 9x13
Portraits – Unidentified (David?) 1956-1957 – 2 6x8
Portrait of Celia Franca by Eugene Rubin – 1 b&w 9x12
Portrait of Celia Franca by Jurgen Vogt – 1 b&w 9x4
Portraits of Celia Franca at the El Patio in Mexico City – 2 b&w 8x10
Portrait of Celia Franca by Janine Studios – 1 b&w 8x10
Portrait of Celia Franca with three cats – 1 b&w 8x10
Performance/publicity - La Syphilde by Gene Draper – 2 b&w 8x12
Performance/publicity – Midsummer’s Night Dream, Les Pommiers 1951, 1952 – 2 b&w 10x14
Teaching – China – 3 b&w 9x11
Honours – “The Legacy of Ontario’s Women”, Queen’s Park 1995 – 1 b&w 8x10
Events – National Ballet’s 10th Anniversary picture in Toronto paper, 1961 – 1 b&w 8x10
Events – Unidentified – CF with Grant Strate and Earl Kraul – 1 b&w 8x10
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OVERSIZE MATERIAL – COLOUR
Events – Unidentified [Order of Canada Ceremony – Jeanne Sauvé]– 2 col. 8x10, one by Jean- Marc Carisse
National Ballet School – 3 colour prints
Teaching – China – 1 col. 9x11 print
Honours – British Columbia Festival, 1984, 1 col. 8x10; Order of Canada, CF with Roland Michener, 1 col. 8x10
Honours – CF and James Morton with Brian and Mila Mulroney – 2 col. 8x10
Honours – CF awarded Companion to the Order of Canada – 3 col. 8x10
Honours – CF with Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant and others (possibly for “Tour de Force”?) – 13 8x10 chromogenic prints
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