- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2014-138", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"22738", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20617479", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1882-1983", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1882/1983"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1882
- date_inclusive_end
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1983
- keydate
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1882
- date_start
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1882
- date_end
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1983
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Barbara Newberry Singer papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.8 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box, 2 volumes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"THE", "value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Barbara Newberry Singer papers contain scrapbooks, photographs and manuscripts documenting the career of dancer and actress Barbara Newberry."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Barbara Newberry Singer papers, Billy Rose Theatre Division, *T-Mss 2014-138. The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Singer, Barbara Newberry", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Barbara Newberry Singer was a dancer and actress in musical theater from the late 1920s through the 1930s. She performed under the name Barbara Newberry on Broadway, in the Midwest, England, and Monte Carlo. Impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. deemed her legs the most beautiful in America in an ad campaign for Phoenix Hosiery in 1929. Singer’s first husband was performer Eddie Foy Jr.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection includes four scrapbooks of clippings and photographs, loose photographs and clippings, and several handwritten manuscripts by Barbara Newberry Singer, from 1882 to 1983. <span class=\"title\">Ziegfeld Follies</span> of 1925, <span class=\"title\">Bets</span>y (1926), <span class=\"title\">Oh, Ernest!</span> (1927), <span class=\"title\">Good Bo</span>y (1928), and <span class=\"title\">Gay Divorce</span> (1932) are among the productions in the collection. Many of the photographs are professional portraits, but there are also some production and personal photographs. The manuscripts are written by Singer and express her impressions of places and events in her life.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Estate of Barbara Newberry Singer by Mr. Atkins, 1987</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">cdee</span>, <span class=\"date\">2015</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 Theatre Division at theatre@nypl.org.</p>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- extent_statement
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2.8 linear feet (1 box, 2 volumes)