- unitid
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{"value"=>"186151", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"(S) *MGZMD 566", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b23133657", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1933", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1933"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Dartington Hall School Students scrapbook"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.25 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Dartington Hall School was a progressive coeducational boarding school located in Totnes, England, which included an arts center and a dance school. Nonny Gardner (1914-1998) was a Dartington Hall School student who, following her graduation, travelled with three fellow Dartington alumni throughout the United States. The Dartington Hall School Students Scrapbook, compiled by Gardner to memorialize their 1933 visits to New York, Chicago, the Southwestern United States, California, and Oregon, includes snapshot photographs, picture postcards, ticket stubs, travel brochures, and other ephemera."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Cangelosi, Nonny Gardner, 1914-1998", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Dartington Hall School was a progressive coeducational boarding school owned by Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight and her husband Leonard Knight Elmhirst in the 1920s and 1930s. Dartington Hall, which was located in Totnes, England, included an arts center and a dance school.</p> <p>Nonny Gardner, who was born in England in 1914, attended Dartington Hall School, where she pursued interests in dance, costume design, theater, and gymnastics. Gardner graduated from Dartington Hall School in 1933 and spent the remainder of that year travelling across the United States with a few other Dartington dance students, including Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Bethene Miller, and Beatrice Straight, daughter of Dorothy Whitney Straight.</p> <p>Gardner received a scholarship to attend the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (today called University of the Arts), where she met photographer Irving Penn. Gardner and Penn moved to New York City together after art school and were married from 1940 to 1943. Gardner briefly worked as docent at the Museum of Modern Art while married to Penn. In 1944, Gardner married her second husband, John Cangelosi, an aerospace engineer. The couple settled in Long Island and raised a family together. Nonny Garner Cangelosi died in 1998.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Dartington Hall School Students Scrapbook was compiled by Nonny Gardner and memorializes her and her friends' American travels in 1933, her first year living in the United States. Gardner and her friends stayed in a New York City Park Avenue penthouse owned by Dorothy Whitney Straight, the Whitney family country house in the Adirondacks, and the Whitney's Applegreen estate in Old Westbury, Long Island before embarking on a months' long cross-country tour of the United States. The students visited the World's Fair in Chicago; the Rocky Mountains; Utah; New Mexico; the Grand Canyon; RKO Studios in Hollywood; San Francisco; and Oregon. The scrapbook provides a view of the United States in the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a group of young, affluent, creative outsiders.</p> <p>The scrapbook's binding bolts have been removed. Affixed to the sleeved loose scrapbook pages are a mix of snapshot photographs taken by Gardner and others, picture postcards, maps, ticket stubs, travel brochures, telegrams, hotel stationery, and other ephemera. Any items that have come unglued from pages are interleaved at their original page postion.</p> <p>Short captions handwritten by Gardner appear throughout the scrapbook. Occasionally, especially in the sections pertaining to the Southwestern States region, Gardner's captions, those appearing on picture postcards, and those within travel brochures contain condescending, offensive, or racist references to Indigenous peoples.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Katie Cangelosi in 2019.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Heather Halliday</span> in <span class=\"date\">2023</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1933
- keydate
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1933
- date_end
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1933
- date_inclusive_start
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1933
- date_inclusive_end
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1933
- extent_statement
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0.25 linear feet (1 box)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Dartington Hall School Students scrapbook, (S) *MGZMD 566. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}