- unitid
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{"value"=>"19765", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*MGZMD 120", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1920-1991", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1991"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Anita Zahn professional and personal papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"9 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10 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"=>"Correspondence, teaching notes, music scores, programs, clippings and personal documents related to Anita Zahn's professional career as a dancer, teacher and director of schools."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Multiple languages"}
{"value"=>"In English and German."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Zahn, Anita, 1903-1994", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Anita Zahn (born in Germany in 1904) was among the nine students of the Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan School who were brought by Elizabeth Duncan to America at the outbreak of World War I in August of 1914. They performed in America until 1920 when they went back to Switzerland for the summer. Anita Zahn remained in Europe for two years, and in 1922 she returned to the United States. She taught at Carnegie Hall and gave performances with her group of young Duncan dancers. In the late twenties she became the director of the New York branch of the Elizabeth Duncan School, and later established her own, Anita Zahn School of Duncan Dancing, in New York. The school also had branches in Summit, NJ, Nuntucket (Siasconset), and Summer schools in New Jersey and East Hampton, Long Island. She also served as the faculty at The Spence School in New York for more than 20 years.</p> <p>From the late 1920s through mid 1960s, Anita Zahn arranged annual spring recitals of her school in New York as well as numerous performances in various theaters and halls. Among the most distinguished productions were \"The Children's Christmas Story\" (1953) with Leopold Stokowski as the director and conductor and Robert Edmond Jones as the designer; and \"Arouse and Beware,\" a trilogy based on Walt Whitman's <em>Leaves of Grass</em>(1936). She died in 1995.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers of <span class=\"persname\">Anita Zahn</span> cover more than seventy years of her career as a dancer and school director and a member of the \"Isadorables\" circle. The collection consists mainly of clippings, programs and press material. Correspondence is fragmentary and does not give a full picture of <span class=\"persname\">Anita Zahn's</span> professional or personal life. Of particular interest are materials related to Elizabeth Duncan School of Dance: correspondence with <span class=\"persname\">Elizabeth Duncan</span>, diary notes on the 1920 season in Switzerland, clippings from European newspapers of the early 1910s and 1920s, and original programs of <span class=\"persname\">Isadora Duncan</span> and Duncan school performances. The order within series is alphabetical.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Anita Zahn professional and personal papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19765#c369984'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1922-1992</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19765#c370163'>II. Professional papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1913-1980</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19765#c370209'>III. Personal papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1920-1984</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19765#c370223'>IV. Music scores:</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchase.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Separated from the collection:</p> <ol class=\"list\"> <li>Emanuel Siblík. <em>Antiké Krásno v Moderním Tanci. Od Platona k Duncanové.</em></li> <li>To be Catalaoged</li> <li>Photographs</li> <li>Portraits to be cataloged</li> <li>Books in German and English</li></ol>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Irina Klyagin</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1920
- keydate
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1920
- date_end
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1991
- date_inclusive_start
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1920
- date_inclusive_end
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1991
- extent_statement
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10 linear feet (9 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Anita Zahn professional and personal papers, *MGZMD 120. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}