{"value"=>"<p>This series contains photographs related to Sara Mildred Strauss's career as dance and movement instructor. It includes photographs from training sessions with her pupils at various locations of her School of Dance, as well as children with whom she worked. There is also a significant number of photographs from two of the three European courses she organized to Germany, Austria and France between 1928 and 1930. Many of these photographs are mounted on cards, often with captions, and depict training sessions on deck during traveling and outdoors, sightseeing trips, picnics and leisure time with her students and local instructors. This series also contains photographs from the dance numbers Sara Strauss choreographed for various performances, including <span class=\"title\">Calling All Stars</span>, <span class=\"title\">Carioca</span>, <span class=\"title\">Song of the Bayou</span> and <span class=\"title\">Savage Serenade</span>, and the motion picture <span class=\"title\">Sweet Surrender</span>; and two scrapbooks with photographs, clippings, and copies of school leaflets, probably compiled by Sara Strauss herself. They record her dance productions and School of Dance, both dated 1935. Photographs of the <span class=\"title\">Living Movement Figure</span> dolls, created by Sara Strauss in the early 1940s, are divided according to the two main uses the dolls were put, dressed in various costumes for advertisement or shop windows, and dance instruction. Finally, several photographs of Sara Strauss dancing and portraits are also included. They date from most of her adult years.</p>"}