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- unitid
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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 160", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19792", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1878-1971", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1878/1971"}
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1878
- date_inclusive_end
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1971
- keydate
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1878
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Amata B. Grassi papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</span></span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Amata B. Grassi Papers document the personal life and professional career of the early twentieth-century dancer. The collection contains correspondence and personal papers; performance notes; newspaper and magazine clippings; two of her personal diaries; and personal and professional photographs, including some negatives and slides. The focus of the collection covers her dancing years."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Amata B. Grassi papers, *MGZMD 160. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Grassi, Amata", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Amata Grassi was born in New York on June 1, 1894. Originally named Anna Beatrice Koch she chose her stage name after her mother, Caroline Grasse (1837-1917). Amata Grassi began her dancing career with Anna Pavlova in 1917. In the following year, while touring in Buenos Aires, she met her future first husband, Chester Hale (Chamberlin). Soon after they left the famous dancer to form their own company. She also danced with the Adolph Bolm Ballet Intime and the Chicago Opera Co., toured in vaudeville, musical comedy and concert. In 1928 she was a premier dancer of Paul Whiteman’s <span class=\"title\">Rio Romance</span>. During World War II she was company manager of a Major Bowes unit that made a USO tour of Army camps. She was married to Chester Hale from September 1918 until May 1931. Around the mid-1940s she remarried, to Walter Hussen. After she ended her career as a dancer she began working at the Sheraton Hotel, and started to raise French poodles. In 1950 she is reported to have been an assistant at the hotel’s payroll department. Sources: · Amata Grassi Papers, An inventory of her papers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Retrieved November 2, 2005 from http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AGrassib.html · Chicago Sunday Times, Thursday June 22, 1950, section two-2</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Amata B. Grassi papers contain documents, photographs and clippings documenting her personal life and her professional career as a dancer. Both aspects are covered equally. Although the collection spans over almost a century, the majority of the materials cover the period of Amata Grassi’s dancing years, from the mid-1910s to 1930s. Her personal diaries (Box 2, folder 4) offer an interesting insight to her personality and everyday life for the periods covered. The collection also contains a considerable number of professional photographs (Box 6), both of herself and other performers of the period, which might be of interest to the researcher. Several letters in the correspondence series (Box 1) provide interesting primary sources to the Spanish Civil War and World War II (folders 6 and 8 respectively). There are no audiovisual materials in this collection, while the later period of Amata Grassi’s life is rather underrepresented.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Amata B. Grassi papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19792#c389020'>Series I: Correspondence, and</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1916 - 1971</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box, 10 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains mostly personal letters and postcards to Amata Grassi from friends and family. Legal, business and financial correspondence can be found in the Personal Papers series. In cases where the sender’s last name is unknown, documents are filed under sender’s first name.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19792#c389031'>Series II: Personal Papers, and</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1878 - 1961</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box, 18 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains records from Amata Grassi’s personal and professional life. It includes several business, financial and legal documents. Of particular interest are two diaries (1917, 1932) handwritten by Amata Grassi herself; programs and several handwritten notes, receipts, costume plans and dancing notes related to various of her performances; and an (otherwise unmarked) book on the <span class=\"title\">Russian Ballets.</span> This series also includes records from Amata Grassi’s early childhood, letters related to her parents and second husband, Walter Hussen; business cards, function passes and events invites; a few sketches of portraits, a small number of music scores, two telephone number booklets with personal contacts, and a small stamp collection. Empty envelopes found scattered among her papers or previously containing photographs; as well as a few cooking recipes can also be found here.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19792#c389050'>Series III: Clippings, 1916 - 1960s and</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes, 11 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is divided into two sub-series. The first includes loose clippings from newspapers and magazines, and the second consists of five clippings booklets. <ul> <li>Subseries 1: Loose Clippings</li> <li>Subseries 2: Clippings Booklets</li></ul></p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19792#c389064'>Series IV: Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes 12 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is divided into two sub-series. The first sub-series includes photographs of Amata Grassi’s personal life, and the second photographs of her dancing career. <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Personal photographs</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Professional photographs</li></ul></p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19792#c389082'>Series V: Oversized Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1913 - 1950</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1 box, 12 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains several oversized souvenir programs, clippings, a magazine issue and several professional photographs of both Amata Grassi and other performers.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: Correspondence, 1916-1971 and undated</li> <li>Series II: Personal Papers, 1878-1961 and undated</li> <li>Series III: Clippings, 1916-1960s and undated <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Loose Clippings, 1916-1960s and undated</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Clippings Booklets, 1917-1928 and undated</li></ul></li> <li>Series IV: Photographs, undated <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Personal Photographs, undated</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Professional Photographs, undated</li></ul></li> <li>Series V: Oversized Materials, 1913-1950 and undated</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>The Amata B. Grassi Papers were donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in August 1977 by Brigitte E. Peterhans.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Materials related to Amata B. Grassi and complementing the present collection can also be found at the University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/AGrassib.html).</p>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster; Machine-readable finding aid created by Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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4.25 linear feet (7 boxes)
- date_start
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1878
- date_end
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1971