{"value"=>"<p>The Assignments Series, the largest in the collection, primarily contains Rosegg's work documenting various Broadway, Off-Broadway, touring productions, and community theater. The vast bulk of the photographs are performance images. Also included are headshot portraits of individual actors and actresses, a few family portrait sessions, and corporate and advertising assignments.</p> <p>Assignments files typically contain slides, contact sheets, negatives, and prints. Occasionally programs, correspondence, and press releases are present to help provide context for more obscure assignments. Original envelopes used by Rosegg were retained as they frequently bear handwritten notations regarding specific frame numbers and names of cast members. Productions with longer runs are typically represented by larger quantities of images.</p> <p>Assignments are filed alphabetically by title of the work or, in the case of her non-performing arts assignments, under the name of an individual or company. A few theater companies, such as Ensemble Studio Theatre and Pearl Theatre, are filed under their names, but their productions may be filed separately under the work's title. Rosegg mainly photographed live performances but also studio cast shots taken a few months before a work's opening and \"set-ups\" onstage. In some cases, the dates reflect when photos were taken by Rosegg, not necessarily when the show was being performed.</p> <p>Of note are Rosegg's photographs of productions staged by Theater by the Blind, which was later renamed Theater Breaking Through Barriers, an Off-Broadway theatre group focused on artists and audiences with disabilities.</p> <p>Rosegg occasionally worked beyond the New York City theater world photographing the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., Theatre-by-the-Sea in Rhode Island, Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, and many touring productions across the United States such as <span class=\"title\">Damn Yankees</span> and <span class=\"title\">Chicago</span>.</p>"}