- unitid
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{"value"=>"18479", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1923-1981", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1923/1981"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1923
- date_inclusive_end
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1981
- keydate
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1923
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Richard Stuart papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".84 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <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 collection documents adagio and ballroom dancers from the 1920s to the 1970s. This small collection is mostly comprised of diaries and photographs. There are two diaries of Richard Stuart's early career as an adagio dancer in New York City during the 1920s. The photographs are adagio and ballroom dancers with some minor related ephemera. This collection was to be a foundation for a book on dancing couples, never completed, by Richard Stuart and writer/dancer Marian Horosko."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Richard Stuart papers, *MGZMD 305. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Stuart, Richard", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Richard Stuart was born Richard Stuart Mackall in Fairmont, West Virginia in 1901. Stuart, an adagio dancer, danced professionally from the 1920s to the late 1950s. A couple's dancer, he first partnered with Claire Lea, his first wife, from 1927 to the mid 1930s. They were professionally know as \"Stuart and Lea.\" His second partner, Flora Ossana, also worked professionally under the name \"Stuart and Lea\" because of the public name recognition. After their marriage in 1944, the couple changed the name to \"Richard and Flora Stuart.\"</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection documents the adagio dancer and the ballroom dancer from the 1920s through the 1970s mostly with diaries and photographs. Richard Stuart's two diaries, 1925 to 1929, were daily entries of his training as an adagio dancer in New York City, his local performances, and social activities.</p> <p>The photographs of dancing couples that were created for publicity, depict couples performing adagio and ballroom dancing. Some of these black and white photographs were autographed as gifts to Stuart. These photographs include Stuart dancing the famous \"Cape Dance\" with Claire Lea, and with his second wife Flora Ossana Stuart. The dancing couples depicted also include several photographs of Irene Castle dancing with William Reardon (1923). This collection was to be used for a uncompleted book tentatively titled \"Dancing Couples\" by Richard Stuart and Marian Horosko. The files also have a rare issue of \"Shadowland,\" the dance magazine (1923).</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged by format.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by the estate of Richard and Flora Stuart, Marion Horosko, 1990 and 1993.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.</p>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 305", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Valerie Wingfield.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.84 linear feet (2 boxes)
- date_start
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1923
- date_end
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1981