| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Florence S. Shapero Dancing School Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Florence S. Shapero Dancing School | | | | Dates: | 1920-1960 | | | | Abstract: | Florence S. Shapero (1897-1970) was the premier children's dance and social graces instructor in the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio, for forty years. A daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1891, she received her schooling in Cleveland, graduting from Central High School ca. 1915. Following her graduation, Shapero pursued ballet training in New York City. She returned to Cleveland in the 1920s, opening her first studio in 1929 in rented space in the Masonic Hall at 1949 East 105th Street. She remained in this studio which was close to the heavily Jewish population area of Glenville until the population shifts to the suburbs in the late 1940s and early 1950s. By 1952, Shapero had relocated to Cleveland Heights, where much of Cleveland's Jewish population had resettled. She maintained a studio in the Masonic Temple at 1633 Lee Road and continued teaching dance and the social graces which accompany it until her death almost twenty years later in 1970. The collection consists of sixty-three black-and-white prints, one of which is a hand-tinted portrait. Twenty-five of the prints are oversize. The bulk of the collection consists of group portraits of classes from the 1940s and 1950s. | | | | Call #: | PG 296 | | | | Extent: | 0.30 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Shapero, Florence S., 1897-1970 -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Dance schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century -- Photographs. | Etiquette for children and teenagers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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