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O'Toole Family, 1894

Level of Description
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents

Materials include three photographs of the O'Toole Family from 1894, including photographs of Batholomew, Margaret Kelly, Tessabel, and Bartley Augusta O'Toole. One of the photographs was taken inside Washington Canyon.

Archival Collection
Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00221
Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Catherine Dunne: photographic print

Date
1939 to 1940
Description

From Margaret Kelly Collection on the Bluebell Girls MS-00604. (sod2022-010-007 shows this photograph in a newspaper clipping.)

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Collaborators/Partners and Miscellaneous, 1950s-1990s

Level of Description
Sub-Series
Scope and Contents

The collaborators/partners and miscellaneous subseries contains materials dating from the 1950s to the 1990s that document the lives of Donn's Arden's lifelong collaborator Margaret Kelly (Miss Bluebell) and that of Las Vegas producer Frank Sennes. Also contains general information on dance, production shows, and showgirls.

Archival Collection
Donn Arden Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00425
Collection Name: Donn Arden Papers
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Photographs, 1940s-1980s

Level of Description
Series
Scope and Contents

The photographs series consists primarily of headshots of individuals and groups auditioning for roles in Donn Arden productions from the 1940s to the 1980s. This series also contains a photo album and loose photographs of Arden in Paris with Ron Fletcher, Margaret Kelly (Miss Bluebell), and others in the late 1940s to 1950s.

Archival Collection
Donn Arden Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00425
Collection Name: Donn Arden Papers
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Catherine Dunne: photographic print

Date
1939 (year approximate) to 1940 (year approximate)
Description

From the Margaret Kelly Collection on the Bluebell Girls, MS-00604. Portrait photograph of dancer Catherine Dunne. (sod2022-010-004 shows this photo in a newspaper clipping.)

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Photograph of dancers at the Lido, Paris (Fr.), circa 1950s-1960s

Date
1960 to 1969
Description
A photograph of the Bluebell Girls rehearsing in the Lido cabaret club in Paris sometime in the 1950s. Seated at the table in the background are (L-R): 1. unidentified 2. Donn Arden 3. Pierre Lewis-Guerin, and 4. Margaret Kelly ("Madame Bluebell", the creator and manager of the Bluebell Girls. The Bluebell Girls was a well-known dance troupe founded by Margaret Kelly. Site Name: Lido (Cabaret: Paris, France)

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