Early portrait of Roshanara. Probably 1910-16. Measures 6.5 x 8.5 inches.

See pictures for condition. Single weight silver gelatin print.

Has handwritten information on rear. Vacation at Bretton Hall Hotel.

Craddock was born on 22 January 1892 inCalcutta. Her father was John James Nolan Craddock who was Anglo-Indian and her mother was Mabel Mary Ann Adams who was British. She learned to dance in India.[3]before she moved to Britain around 1909.

She danced withLoie Fuller\'s company and then undertook training with the Spanish dancerCarmen Tórtola Valencia. In 1911 she danced in London inOscar Asche\'sKismetand then as Zobeide inScheherazade. This role was with theBallets RussesatCovent Garden. The following year she appeared withAnna Pavlova\'s dance company as a speciality dancer.[3]She had several dances that were performed using extracts from the 1880s Oriental operaLakmé[4]by the French composerLéo Delibes.

Craddock started to work in the United States in 1916 where she appeared in Vaudeville theatres. In 1917 she and Japanese dancerMichio Itōwere the specialty dancers withAdolf Bolm\'s companyBallet Intime.[4]Roshanara also appeared withRatan Deviwho was a British singer who had been to India to study music. Devi was accompanied by her husbandAnanda Coomaraswamywho was employed by the Boston Museum of Art as an expert on Indian culture. Coomaraswamy wrote about how Roshanara was an authenticnautchdancer in contrast toRuth St Deniswho a few years before had shown Indian style dances.[5]

Craddock arrived as an \"alien\" emigrant in New York in 1923. Craddock taught dancing and the later film star,Bette Daviswas one of her pupils.[3]She died in her thirties on 16 July 1926 inAsheville, North Carolina.[2]from appendicitis.[1]