More of West Side Story by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman CenterFebruary 24, 2017

Earlier this week I posted some animated GIFs created from digitized images from our West Side Story archives. Below, enjoy more mesmerizing images, made possible through a Theatre Division grant to digitize every photographic negative we could find from the 1957 production of West Side Story. If anyone is interested in financially supporting the digitization of similiar photographs from another show, please email me at dougreside@nypl.org.

Dance rehearsal. Photos by Friedman-Abeles
Dance rehearsal.  Photos by Friedman-Abeles
Jerome Robbins directs the rehearsal for Dance at the Gym. Photos by Martha Swope.
Jerome Robbins directs the rehearsal for Dance at the Gym. Photos by Friedman-Abeles.
Dance rehearsals. Photos by Martha Swope.
Dance rehearsals.  Photos by Friedman-Abeles.
Jerome Robbins rehearses Dance at the Gym. Photos by Martha Swope.
Jerome Robbins rehearses Dance at the Gym.  Photos by Friedman-Abeles.
Rehearsal for West Side Story. Photo by Friedman-Abeles.
Rehearsal for West Side Story. Photo by Friedman-Abeles.
Rehearsal for West Side Story. Photo by Friedman-Abeles.
Rehearsal for West Side Story. Photo by Friedman-Abeles.
Victoria Mallory and Kurt Peterson in rehearsal for West Side Story (Photo by Friedman-Abeles)
Victoria Mallory and Kurt Peterson in rehearsal for West Side Story. Photo by Friedman-Abeles.
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