Personal documents and memorabilia, 1917-1983

Component identifier:

Series 3

Content Summary:

This series consists of papers relating to van Praagh's personal life and achievements. They include cards, certificates, passports, programs, school books and school magazines, sketches and other memorabilia. Certificates from the 1920s and 1930s for elocution, piano and dancing document her wide range of talents and activities. There are also various small cards advertising dancing lessons with van Praagh's dancing school. Other items of interest include a family tree and sketches of van Praagh as a young woman.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated to the National Library in four instalments in 1986, 1995, 1999 and 2001. The original instalment was donated by Peggy van Praagh. The additional instalments were forwarded by the executors of her estate.

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