Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies

id
4938
origination
Wood, Roger
date statement
1944-1961
key date
1944
identifier (local_mss)
19623
org unit
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
call number
*MGZEN 95-5483
b-number
b12176515
total components
30
total series
0
max depth
N/A
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:11 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:11:40 UTC
status note
(missing)
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physdesc
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unitid
{"value"=>"*MGZEN 95-5483", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19623", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1944-1961", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1944/1961"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies"}
repository
{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">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>"}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies 1944-1961, *MGZEN 95-5483, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Wood, Roger", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Roger Wood, a British photographer, was born in Madras, India, 1920. Starting to photograph ballet in 1944, he soon became one of the best know dance photographers in Great Britain. He has published several books of dance photographs, including <span class=\"emph\">Katherine Dunham, her Dancers, Singers, Musicians</span>(Richard Buckle, editor, 1949), <span class=\"emph\">The Sadler's Wells Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden</span>(1951), and <span class=\"emph\">The Theatre Ballet of Sadler's Wells in photographs</span>(1952). His interest later turned to archeology and photography and has published works on Egypt, Saudi Arabian antiquities, and Persia.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>Collection includes negatives of studio, action, travel, informal and portrait prints of dancers, dance companies, theatrical productions, motion pictures, and ballet special events. Arranged alphabetically by dancer's surname or by dance company name. Each dance company is further arranged alphabetically by dance title or dancer's name. Each negative bears a number assigned by the photographer <span class=\"persname\">Roger Wood</span>; these numbers correspond to the numbers that appear on the verso of the related print. For the related prints see Photographic prints of dancers and dance companies, *MGZEB 95-5482. Box 28 contains <span class=\"persname\">Wood's</span> register of negatives. Box 29 contains oversized negatives and Box 30 contains unidentified negatives.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Purchase. Roger Wood. Received: 1966-1967.</p>"}
date_inclusive_start
1944
date_inclusive_end
1961
arrangement
{"value"=>"Twenty-nine boxes of photographic negatives with one box photographer's register, arranged alphabetically by dancer's surname or dance company name"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>Wood, Roger Dance photographs *MGZEN</p>", "type"=>"host"}
{"value"=>"<p>Wood, Roger Photographic prints of dancers and dance companies *MGZEB 95-5482</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Wood, Roger Programs and ephemera relating to dance photographs *MGZB Wood, Roger</p>"}
note
{"value"=>"<p>Box 30 contains unidentified negatives</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Each negative bears a number assigned by Roger Wood. Box 28 contains Wood's register</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
keydate
1944
langmaterial
{"value"=>"English"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Roger Wood, a British photographer, was born in Madras, India, 1920. Starting to photograph ballet in 1944, he soon became one of the best know dance photographers in Great Britain. He has published several books of dance photographs, including <span class=\"emph\">Katherine Dunham, her Dancers, Singers, Musicians</span>(Richard Buckle, editor, 1949), <span class=\"emph\">The Sadler's Wells Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden</span>(1951), and <span class=\"emph\">The Theatre Ballet of Sadler's Wells in photographs</span>(1952). His interest later turned to archeology and photography and has published works on Egypt, Saudi Arabian antiquities, and Persia. Collection includes negatives of studio, action, travel, informal and portrait prints of dancers, dance companies, theatrical productions, motion pictures, and ballet special events. Arranged alphabetically by dancer's surname or by dance company name. Each dance company is further arranged alphabetically by dance title or dancer's name. Each negative bears a number assigned by the photographer <span class=\"persname\">Roger Wood</span>; these numbers correspond to the numbers that appear on the verso of the related print. For the related prints see Photographic prints of dancers and dance companies, *MGZEB 95-5482. Box 28 contains <span class=\"persname\">Wood's</span> register of negatives. Box 29 contains oversized negatives and Box 30 contains unidentified negatives.", "generated"=>true}
extent_statement
10.5 linear feet (29 document boxes, 1 oversize flat box; 43, 975 photonegatives)
date_start
1944
date_end
1961

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  1. ANA ESMERALDA to BALLET RAMBERT Dark Elegies (Tudor)
  2. BALLET RAMBERT Death and the Maiden (Howard) to BALLET RAMBERT Mermaid (Howard and Salaman)
  3. BALLET RAMBERT Mr. Punch (Gore) to BALLET RAMBERT Unidentified
  4. BALLET THEATRE Alonso, Alicia to BALLET THEATRE Petrouchka (Fokin)
  5. BALLET THEATRE Pillar of Fire (Tudor) to BALLET THEATRE Waltz Academy (Balanchine)
  6. BALLETS DE PARIS to LES BALLETS DES CHAMPSELYSEES La Creation (Lichine)
  7. LES BALLETS DES CHAMPSELYSEES Coppelia (Saint-Leon) to LES BALLETS DES CHAMPSELYSEES Le spectre de la rose (Fokin)
  8. LES BALLETS DES CHAMPSELYSEES Swan Lake (Petipa) to BOLSHOI BALLET (COMPANY) Swan Lake (Petipa)
  9. BORIS MILEC BALLET to FESTIVAL BALLET, LONDON
  10. FIFIELD, ELAINE to GRAND BALLET DE MONTE CARLO (MARQUIS DE CUEVAS) Hightower, Rosella
  11. GRAND BALLET DE MONTE CARLO (MARQUIS DE CUEVAS) Mad Tristan (Massine) to TOUMANOVA, TAMARA
  12. GRAND BALLET DU MARQUIS DE CUEVAS to JOOSS BALLET (COMPANY) Miscellaneous
  13. JOOSS BALLET (COMPANY) Pandora (Jooss) to JOSE GRECO AND COMPANY
  14. JOSE LIMON DANCE COMPANY to KATHERINE DUNHAM DANCE COMPANY
  15. KENTON BALLET to MOISEYEV DANCE COMPANY
  16. MRINALINI SARABHAI DANCE COMPANY to NERINA, NADIA
  17. NEW YORK CITY BALLET Adams, Diana to NEW YORK CITY BALLET Lilac Garden (Tudor)
  18. NEW YORK CITY BALLET Magallanes, Nicholas to NEW YORK CITY BALLET Wylde, Patricia
  19. NIJINSKY GALA to OPERA BALLET
  20. ORIGINAL BALLET RUSSE to OUKHTOMSKY, VLADIMIR
  21. PARIS OPERA BALLET Le Chevalier et la Demoiselle (Lifar) to PARIS OPERA BALLET Variations (Lifar)
  22. PAULINE GRANT to RAM GOPAL
  23. ROSARIO AND ANTONIO
  24. ROYAL BALLET to SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE BALLET
  25. ST. JAMES'S BALLET Alexander, Rolf to ST. JAMES'S BALLET Visions (Carter)
  26. SAKUNTALA to SMITH, NANCY
  27. STANISLAVSKY THEATER BALLET to UKRANIAN DANCE COMPANY
  28. Photographer's Register
  29. Oversized Negatives
  30. Unidentified Negatives