- unitid
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{"value"=>"*MGZMD 392", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18537", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20298291", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1927-1943", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1927/1943"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1927
- date_inclusive_end
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1943
- keydate
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1927
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Rosamond Pierce papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.09 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"DAN", "value"=>"Jerome Robbins Dance Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Rosamond Pierce was a dancer and dance teacher working in Massachusetts in the 1930s. The Rosamond Pierce papers (1927-1943) hold choreographic notes, class notes, technique files, scores, and programs documenting Pierce's career as a teacher, performer, and student."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Rosamond Pierce papers, *MGZMD 392. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Pierce, Rosamond", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Rosamond Pierce was a dancer and dance teacher working in the Boston area in the 1930s. She studied dance at the Braggiotti School from 1927 to 1936, where she assisted Francesca Braggiotti. She also studied with Ted Shawn (1928), Miriam Marmein (1933-1936), and Doris Humphrey (1934). She appeared with the San Carlos Opera Company in Boston in the ballet chorus, and was also a soloist in Marina (1932). She offered courses in dance for children in the Boston area and taught in the summers in Duxbury, Plymouth, and Hingham Massachusetts. She also taught children for four years in Newport, Rhode Island while being sponsored by Maud Howe Elliot. Pierce retired from teaching in 1943 after her marriage to Randolph H. Braxton.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Rosamond Pierce papers (1927-1943) hold choreographic notes, class notes, technique files, scores, and programs documenting Pierce's career as a teacher, performer, and student. Choreographic notes consist of detailed descriptions of recital and class dances for children. The notes sometimes indicate which music should be used. There are also choreographic notes within the scores. Scores hold both published commercial sheet music and Pierce's original compositions and arrangements. All scores are annotated and some have full detailed choreographic notes attached.</p> <p>Class notes consist of lists of barre, strengthening, and stretching exercises for students of various ages and abilities. Programs and flyers consist of advertising mailers for Pierce's dance classes as well as student and professional dance programs.</p> <p>Pierce's technique files hold notes and handouts from Pierce's study with Miriam Marmein, Doris Humphrey, and Ted Shawn. Not all notes are identified as to teacher. The bulk of this material is from Marmein's summer courses, where Pierce spent five weeks studying and performing in Manomet, Massachusets. The technique files also contain handouts from the 1941 convention of the Dancing Teacher's Club of Boston.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical by file type.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Rosamond Pierce, 1990.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Lea Jordan</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Dance Division at dance@nypl.org.</p>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- extent_statement
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1.09 linear feet (3 boxes)
- date_start
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1927
- date_end
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1943