- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10.5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"29 document boxes, 1 oversize flat box; 43, 975 photonegatives", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"*MGZEN 95-5483", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19623", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1944-1961", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1944/1961"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Photographic negatives of dancers and dance companies"}
- repository
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{"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
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{"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
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{"value"=>"Wood, Roger", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"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
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{"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
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchase. Roger Wood. Received: 1966-1967.</p>"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1944
- date_inclusive_end
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1961
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"Twenty-nine boxes of photographic negatives with one box photographer's register, arranged alphabetically by dancer's surname or dance company name"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"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
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{"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
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1944
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- abstract
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{"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
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10.5 linear feet (29 document boxes, 1 oversize flat box; 43, 975 photonegatives)
- date_start
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1944
- date_end
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1961