{"value"=>"<p>The photographs are divided into publicity, performance, images of Peters with other people, and family/personal. The series consists mostly of prints but also includes a small amount of slides and negatives. Office files in series I also occasionally contain photographs with correspondence.</p> <p>The publicity photographs were produced by the Metropolitan Opera, Sol Hurok management, ICM Artists, newspapers and local presenters. They consist of general headshots as well as promotional photos of Peters in particular opera roles. Roles include Zerbinetta in Ariadne Auf Naxos, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Gilda in Rigoletto, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Amina in La Sonnambula, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Oscar in The Masked Ball, Susannah in The Marriage of Figaro, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, the title role in Lakme, and Novina in Don Pasquale.</p> <p>The performance photographs vary in quality; some are professional, while others are obviously amateur. Few to none are from the Metropolitan Opera; most come from appearances with local opera companies on tour. They do include many photographs of Peters in orchestral and recital appearances.</p> <p>The photographs of Peters with other notable people are voluminous and feature her with musicians and singers such as Louis Armstrong, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Ezio Pinza, Rudolf Bing, Gian Carlo Menotti, Luciano Pavoratti, Paul Creston, Dmitri Mitropolis, Max Rudolf, Marian Anderson, Robert Merrill, Liberace, Jan Peerce, Isaac Stern, Yo Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax; actors and entertainers such as Ginger Rogers, Lauren Bacall, Johnny Weismuller, Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, Charles Nelson Reilly and Vincent Gardenia; the impresario Sol Hurok; the Jewish and Israeli figures Golda Meir, Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel, and Simon Wiesenthal; U.S. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton; and other political figures such as New York mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins, Spiro Agnew, Henry Cabot Lodge and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.</p> <p>Artwork and posters include an undated painting of Peters (artist unknown, ca. 1950s); two color sketches of Peters dressed for a television appearance in Cologne, Germany (artist unknown, 1967); two pencil sketches of Peters by Marvin Perry (1967); three sketches of Peters in costume for a production of The Sound of Music by Webb Catherwood (1982); a drawing of Peters in costume for a production of The Merry Widow, also by Webb Catherwood (1977); an undated sketch of Peters in costume (artist unknown); and a promotional bus poster featuring a photo of Peters and a recipe (ca. 1968).</p>"}