[Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine dancing in a segment of "Don Quixote" at New York State Theater] / World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez.

The New York World-Telegram, later known as the New York World-Telegram and The Sun, was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1967. The Library of Congress collection includes about 1 million photographs that the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper assembled mostly 1890 and 1967, the year in which the newspaper closed. This newspaper photo morgue is typical of the files that newspapers maintain of images that either were published or were believed to have some future publication potential. Such files were periodically "weeded" by newspaper staff members. Much of the photography used by newspapers is "quick copy," and many images have been cropped, retouched, or highlighted for publication. Some images were taken by the newspaper's staff photographers while others came from wire press services, studios, or amateur photographers.

A random collection of portraits of people famous between 1926-1963

Russia is home of the worlds two most famous ballet companies—the Bolshoi and the Kirov (Maryinsky) —and the source of ballet’s greatest dancers: Nijinsky, Pavlov, Nureyev and Baryshnikov. Russians are big ballet fans. Sometimes they applaud cameo performers before they step on stage. Russian ballet, some critics say, has achieved greatness by blending classicism and Russian folk dance. Vakil Usmanof, former choreographer for the Moscow Ballet School, told the Economist, "The Russian tradition is unique, with its own internal conception closely related to the Russian soul. It is not modern, not jazz but exclusively classical.”