Pre-production photograph of Al Tinnin as Azdak in the Caucasian Chalk Circle. Al Tinnin was the first African-American student to graduate from Carleton College, and the first African American student to act on stage at Carleton. This was the premiere of the Bertolt Brecht play: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and it was a student-led production at Little Nourse Theater from May 4th-8th in 1947.
This is a section of a LIFE magazine article titled "An intimate revolution in campus life", it focuses on the Oberlin president's decision making process in switching to co-ed dorms with 24 hour visitation. It also emphasizes the potential for platonic friendships and greater understanding between men and women as a result of co-ed housing, as opposed to purely sexual opportunities. It includes a picture of a female Oberlin students spending time wither her two male friends in their dorm room.
This source is a page of the article titled ""The Great Co-ed Housing Peregrination" run in the Carletonian in 1970. It includes photographs of students moving dorms into coed housing on Valentine's Day, as well as student opinion and observation regarding the switch.
Gilman's unpublished poem was written during the final months of her pregnancy with her only child. She cries out to God, asking for him to "help [her] to live" in a "noble and earnest and pure" way. Although this was written before she was subjected to the rest cure, Gilman's poem candidly explores her relationship to depression and mental illness.
Moss' letter to Chopin reveals some of the ways in which Chopin's writing was important to the community of women. Her praise of Chopin's writing goes beyond the fictional and enlightens the ways in which Chopin's resistence affected other women who might not have had the same ability to pubically speak up.
Artwork by Lynn Hershman Leeson depicting the white silhouette of a woman's head and torso against a black background. Colorful pictures such as a heart, a star, an airplane, and other geometric patterns are shown within the body in a manner that mimics a medical x-ray.
Raquel Welch and Gene Hackman present Liza Minnelli with the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Cabaret. In their introduction, Welch makes reference to Littlefeather's speech, which had just taken place. The transcript of the video is included below:
RW: To all of us, the ladies we have just seen are unforgettable players. To me, they are more than that: they are friends.
GH: At the risk of increasing the suspense for our friends, I'd like to take a moment just to say something. The conventional wisdom is that you're born with talent. Maybe that's so, but talent is unusable and wasted without work, dedication, and a deep feeling for others. The truly talented ladies nominated for best performance by an actress are:
RW: Liza Minnelli in Cabaret.
GH: Diana Ross in Lady Sings the Blues.
RW: Maggie Smith in Travels With My Aunt.
GH: Cicely Tyson in Sounder.
RW: Liv Ullmann in The Emigrants.
GH: And the winner is.
RW: Hope they haven't got a cause.
GH: Liza Minnelli.
LM: Thank you. Thank you very much. Making the film of "Cabaret" was one of the happiest times of my whole life and I would like to thank everybody connected with it but most especially the artistic staff: Mr. Fosse, and Fred Ebb and John Kander. And thank you for giving me this award. You've made me very happy.
The cover of Contact Quarterly Spring/Summer 83 vol. VIII no. 3/4. This issue focused on Contact Improvisation in college, and featured student and instructor perspectives on what it meant to practice CI in a college setting.
Two Carleton students engaged in conversation in Musser Hall, commissioned by the college for use in the 2008 calendar and to enrich the art collection.
This is a photograph of a performance of Antigone in Little Nourse Theater at Carleton College in December of 1947. In this image, pictured are Antigone, Creon, Messenger, and the Guards.
