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Photographs include portraits of Peggy van Praagh (PvP): as a child, 1912-1920; teaching in Margaret Craske's studio, 1940; in ENSA uniform for Sadler's Wells tour of Germany, 1945; Cecchetti Farewell dinner, 1960; Sydney, 1962; teaching in Singapore, 1961; portraits dated 1942, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1980, 1982; at the conferring of Doctor of Letters, University of New England, 1974, and Doctor of Laws, University of Melbourne, 1981; in her Parkville flat. PvP in various roles: with Therese Langfield and Charlotte Bidmead at the Player's Theatre, Covent Garden, [1937-45?]; in an Hungarian dance, and Contre Danse, 1930s, with Molly Lake's Marilyn Dancers; as The Woman in his Past in Jardin aux Lilas, 1936; as Bolero in Soiree Musicale, [1938]; with Hugh Laing in The gods go a'begging, 1938; with Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor, Hugh Laing and Margaret Braithwaite in Gallant Assembly, 1938; as Mortal born under Neptune in The planets, 1939; as the Russian ballerina in Gala performance, 1939; in Dark Elegies, 1939; as Swanhilda, Coppelia, 1940; as Vivandiere in Cap over Mill, 1940. PvP photographed with: Franz Baur [1956]; Lia Schubert, Boris Kniaseff, and Victor Gsovsky [1957?]; Michael Frostick and Charles Mackerras, 1958; Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev at Chequers [1964]; Dr Coombs, 1969; Agnes de Mille and Martin Finestein, 1972; Ray Powell; Peter Brinson, 1975; Kelvin Coe; Peter Brinson and Warren Lett, 1977; Christopher Sexton and Shirley McKechnie; Chris Sexton, Kelvin Coe, Modesta Gentile [?], Shirley McKechnie and Noel Pelly [?]; Dame Margaret Scott and others 1981; Betty Pounder on This is your life; Ursula Moreton and G.B. Wilson. Also portraits of : John Cranko [with poster for Sea change, 1949]; PvP's mother Ethel van Praagh; Bryan Lawrence and Elaine Fifield; Sir Frank Tait; Anne Ludmilla [?]; PvP and others appearing on Danny Angle's This is your Life, 1958. Also 16 photographs of PvP's production of The Rake's Progress, Munich, 1956. Also various colour slides including Dame Margot Fonteyn and Garth Welch rehearsing for Swan Lake in Canberra
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