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Ballet rehearsals, New York City, ca. 1916: [Unidentified group of 6 women & 2 men] – Historic Print

Ballet rehearsals, New York City, ca. 1916: [Unidentified group of 6 women & 2 men], ca. 1916. — historic photograph
Ballet rehearsals, New York City, ca. 1916: [Unidentified group of 6 women & 2 men], ca. 1916.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Ballet rehearsals, New York City, ca. 1916: [Unidentified group of 6 women & 2 men], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Ballet rehearsals, New York City, ca. 1916: [Unidentified group of 6 women & 2 men]

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Eight dancers, six women and two men, pose together at what the caption identifies as a ballet rehearsal in New York City around 1916. The picture came from Bain News Service, a photo agency run by George Grantham Bain that supplied news pictures to newspapers and now belongs to the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs collection. Ballet was drawing growing attention in New York in these years, particularly after Russian companies brought European styles to American stages, so rehearsal pictures like this one show the working studio behind the polished performances audiences saw. The caption data is unverified, so the dancers' names and the exact venue remain unknown.

Created / publishedca. 1916.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: NY--NYC--Theaters; NY--NYC--Misc.; Dance--Ballet; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,179 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138093

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