[SIGNED] Photographic and Ephemera Album: Ukrainian Émigré Artists and Cultural Figures in Exile, 1930s-1960s Autographs,Ballet,Theater, Music, Dance,Ukrainian

Oblong quarto (30 × 24 cm). Blue-and-black checkered cloth over hardboard covers, bound in a sturdy handmade album of the period. Contains forty mounted visual items on 20+ leaves, including twenty-five photographs and fifteen additional pieces of printed ephemera clippings, caricature lithographs, advertisements, and correspondence fifteen of which are signed or inscribed by the represented figures. A compelling and unique document of the postwar Ukrainian cultural diaspora, this privately assembled album brings together portraits, autographs, and biographical material on leading actors, musicians, and stage personalities who carried the legacy of prewar Ukrainian theater and music into exile. The compiler, almost certainly a participant or close observer within émigré artistic circles, arranged the material with curatorial precision: each page pairs a portrait photograph often a professional studio print with a typewritten Ukrainian biographical note, concert notice, or press clipping, many bearing manuscript inscriptions in ink. Among those depicted are major figures of twentieth-century Ukrainian performing arts: Volodymyr Blavatskyi, represented by a signed photograph; Iosif Hirniak and Olimpiia Dobrovolska, with several photographs documenting their stage work and partnership; the actress Lesia Kryvytska; and Volodymyr Shasharovskyi. The album also includes an inscribed lithograph by the renowned dancer and choreographer Vasyl Avramenko, as well as material relating to Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, Alexander Koshetz, M. O. Hayvoronsky, Antin Rudnytsky, Paul Pecheniha Ouglitzky, Roman Prydatkevytch, and Maria Sokil many of them represented by signed photographs, clippings, or concert invitations. Additional items feature the soprano Bella Rudenko, Valentina Zhyla-Nalyvaiko, a large press photograph of Iurko and Nadiia Fedoriv, and a clipping concerning Alicia Andreadis. A number of unidentified female portraits, evidently of stage performers, round out the collection.