Scope and arrangement
Consists of correspondence, programs, photographs, reminiscences and published material that belonged to Prudence Taylor Palmer, a student at the school in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes her reminiscences of her best friend, the ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq, a fellow student at the school and letters to Mayor LaGuardia contesting his denial of permission to perform to children under seven. Also includes correspondence with and memoirs by Lucille Conrad Outhwaite, a dance teacher at the school.