Scope and arrangement
The John Goldston collection consists entirely of ninety 8x10-inch black-and-white photographic prints shot by him. The photographs were taken between the 1940s and 1950s and depict dancers in rehearsals or live performances. Most photographs are of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo or Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre). Notable dancers featured in the collection include Mary Ellen Moylan, Nathalie Krassovska, Rosella Hightower, Nora Kaye, and Alicia Markova. Capriccio Espagnol by Leonide Massine, Ballet Imperial by George Balanchine, Helen of Troy by David Lichine, Les Patineurs by Frederick Ashton, and Fancy Free by Jerome Robbins are among the works depicted in the collection. Images of one of the few ballets choreographed by a woman in this era, Ruthanna Boris's Cirque de Deux and a previously unknown American production of Kurt Jooss's The Green Table, are also included in the collection.
Arrangement
The photographs are numbered one through ninety.