Stage Door Canteen photographs

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id: 10934
origination: American Theatre Wing
date statement: 1943-1945
key date: 1943
identifier (local_mss): 24556
org unit: Music Division
call number: JPB 18-04
b-number: b21551599
total components: 184
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max depth: 1
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component layout: Default Layout
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created: 2018-03-27 20:21:48 UTC
updated: 2018-06-15 18:49:41 UTC
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unitdate: {"value"=>"1943-1945", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1943/1945"}
unittitle: {"value"=>"Stage Door Canteen photographs"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 linear foot", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}], "supress_display"=>true}
repository: {"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Music Division</span>"}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"English"}
origination: {"value"=>"American Theatre Wing", "type"=>"corpname"}
bioghist: {"value"=>"<p>The Stage Door Canteen was a New York City venue run by the American Theatre Wing that offered food, socialization, and entertainment free of charge for U.S. military men during World War II. The original, New York City venue opened on March 2, 1942 in the basement of a theater on 44th Street in New York's theater district. Eventually, Stage Door Canteens were set up in cities across the country, as well as in London and Paris. The venues closed with the end of World War II in 1945.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of 278 black and white photographs of musicians and audience members at the Stage Door Canteen from the years 1943 to 1945. Photographs were taken by several different New York City news photographers and primarily depict musicians in the act of performing. Musicians include instrumentalists and singers from genres of classical, jazz, country, blues, and gospel.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
arrangement: {"value"=>"<p>Folders are arranged alphabetically by last name of primary performer.</p>"}
acqinfo: {"value"=>"<p>Received as a transfer from the Theatre Division.</p>"}
date_start: 1943
keydate: 1943
date_end: 1945
date_inclusive_start: 1943
date_inclusive_end: 1945
extent_statement: 1 linear foot (4 boxes)
prefercite: {"value"=>"Stage Door Canteen photographs, JPB 18-04. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
abstract: {"value"=>"The Stage Door Canteen was a New York City venue run by the American Theatre Wing that offered food, socialization, and entertainment free of charge for U.S. military men during World War II. The original, New York City venue opened on March 2, 1942 in the basement of a theater on 44th Street in New York's theater district. Eventually, Stage Door Canteens were set up in cities across the country, as well as in London and Paris. The venues closed with the end of World War II in 1945. The collection consists of 278 black and white photographs of musicians and audience members at the Stage Door Canteen from the years 1943 to 1945. Photographs were taken by several different New York City news photographers and primarily depict musicians in the act of performing. Musicians include instrumentalists and singers from genres of classical, jazz, country, blues, and gospel.", "generated"=>true}

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