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  • Section 1: The Beginnings

Items in Section 1: The Beginnings

  • Pink pointe shoe signed “To Senia, a lovely dancer, Alexandra Danilova”

    Section 1: The Beginnings Introduction

  • A signed black and white promotional photo of Frederic Franklin lifting Alexandra Danilova. The bottom left corner is marked Maurice Seymour Studios.

    Alexandra Danilova and Frederic Franklin in Pas de Deux

  • Pink pointe shoe signed “To Senia, a lovely dancer, Alexandra Danilova”

    Pointe shoe signed “To Senia, a lovely dancer, Alexandra Danilova”

  • A balerina in a pink tutu is posing on pointe with one knee bent and her arms extended to the right. She is standing in front of a pink and blue draped background.

    Alicia Markova as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker

  • A photo of a man from the waist up. He is wearing a long sleeve, silk, white shirt as he places his hands over his heart and turns his head to the left while looking up. The background is a repeated blue image of a field with trees.

    Anton Dolin in The Nutcracker

  • Pink pointe shoe signed “To Senia, a lovely dancer, Alexandra Danilova”

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