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Reference code
RAD/2/BED/6/41
Title
Photograph of Phyllis Bedells and Adeline Genée in the Three Generations Polka at the RAD Ball, 1939.
Date(s)
- 1939 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 black and white photographic print
7 3/4 in. x 11 3/4 in. (196 mm x 297 mm)
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Scope and content
Full length portrait in costume. Bedells is standing on the left of the image holding a fan in her right hand and left arm is resting on the arm of her partner, Genée. Genée is standing on the right of the image holding a fan in her right arm and holding her skirt with the left arm. The name of the photographer is signed on the bottom right corner of the image. The name of the dancers, event, production and date is handwritten on the reverse.
(The first Royal Academy of Dancing ball, in aid of the building fund, was held at Grosvenor House on June 8th 1939)
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Existence and location of originals
Box no. 7
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Alternative identifier(s)
RAD Archive no.
BED.43
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Name access points
- Bedells, Phyllis (Subject)
- Genée, Adeline (Subject)