Lisan Kay Nimura Collection
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Lisan Kay Nimura Collection 

Dancer Lisan Kay Nimura’s personal collection documents life in the artist studios once inside Carnegie Hall. She taught at Ballet Arts (founded by her husband Yeichi Nimura and Virginia Lee), which was home to well-known dancers and choreographers. Portraits, dance rehearsal snapshots, travel and family photographs, and artwork in this collection span 1900 to 1994. 
Meeting of the Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61
ID: 
CH1538121 
Title: 
Meeting of the Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Meeting of Socrates Birsky's Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61, c. 1960s (back)
ID: 
CH1538120 
Title: 
Meeting of Socrates Birsky's Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61, c. 1960s (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Meeting of the Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61 (back)
ID: 
CH1538119 
Title: 
Meeting of the Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Meeting of Socrates Birsky's Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61, c. 1960s
ID: 
CH1538118 
Title: 
Meeting of Socrates Birsky's Ballet Club at Ballet Arts, Carnegie Hall Studio #61, c. 1960s 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Japan Ballet Letter by Lisan Kay Nimura, March 27, 1983 (back)
ID: 
CH1538033 
Title: 
Japan Ballet Letter by Lisan Kay Nimura, March 27, 1983 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Japan Ballet Letter by Lisan Kay Nimura, March 27, 1983
ID: 
CH1538032 
Title: 
Japan Ballet Letter by Lisan Kay Nimura, March 27, 1983 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Maestro Adolf Schmid's party, November 20, 1949
ID: 
CH1538030 
Title: 
Maestro Adolf Schmid's party, November 20, 1949 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Maestro Adolf Schmid's party, November 20, 1949 (back)
ID: 
CH1538031 
Title: 
Maestro Adolf Schmid's party, November 20, 1949 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Iva Kitchell Webster, Lisan Kay, Yeichi Nimura, and Margaret O'Brien, July 28, 1960
ID: 
CH1538029 
Title: 
Iva Kitchell Webster, Lisan Kay, Yeichi Nimura, and Margaret O'Brien, July 28, 1960 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Iva Kitchell Webster, Lisan Kay, Yeichi Nimura, and Margaret O'Brien, July 28, 1960 (back)
ID: 
CH1538028 
Title: 
Iva Kitchell Webster, Lisan Kay, Yeichi Nimura, and Margaret O'Brien, July 28, 1960 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in "Chi'en Niu & The Spinning Maiden" (Fall 1931), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538027 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in "Chi'en Niu & The Spinning Maiden" (Fall 1931), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in "Chi'en Niu & The Spinning Maiden" (Fall 1931), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538026 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in "Chi'en Niu & The Spinning Maiden" (Fall 1931), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Performance photos of Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay (c.1930s) hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538024 
Title: 
Performance photos of Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay (c.1930s) hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Performance photos of Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay (c.1930s) hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538025 
Title: 
Performance photos of Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay (c.1930s) hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay in "General Wong's Dream," (1934), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538022 
Title: 
Lisan Kay in "General Wong's Dream," (1934), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay in "General Wong's Dream," (1934), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538023 
Title: 
Lisan Kay in "General Wong's Dream," (1934), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura's certificate of award from the Japanese government hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538021 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura's certificate of award from the Japanese government hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Painting of Lisan Kay by Yeichi Nimura, hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538020 
Title: 
Painting of Lisan Kay by Yeichi Nimura, hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Painting of Lisan Kay by Yeichi Nimura, hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538019 
Title: 
Painting of Lisan Kay by Yeichi Nimura, hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura's certificate of award from the Japanese government hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538018 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura's certificate of award from the Japanese government hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay (c.1943) and Yeichi Nimura's "Embuscade," hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538017 
Title: 
Lisan Kay (c.1943) and Yeichi Nimura's "Embuscade," hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay (c.1943) and Yeichi Nimura's "Embuscade," hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538016 
Title: 
Lisan Kay (c.1943) and Yeichi Nimura's "Embuscade," hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay and Marianne Kochman in Central Park, May 10, 1975 (back)
ID: 
CH1538015 
Title: 
Lisan Kay and Marianne Kochman in Central Park, May 10, 1975 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay and Marianne Kochman in Central Park, May 10, 1975
ID: 
CH1538014 
Title: 
Lisan Kay and Marianne Kochman in Central Park, May 10, 1975 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Paul Swan in his Carnegie Hall Studio (back)
ID: 
CH1538013 
Title: 
Paul Swan in his Carnegie Hall Studio (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Mary Martin photo inscribed to Yeichi Nimura, 1946
ID: 
CH1538011 
Title: 
Mary Martin photo inscribed to Yeichi Nimura, 1946 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Fumiko, Yeichi Nimura, Robert Ripley, Lisan Kay, and Ming aboard the "Mon Lei," October 1946
ID: 
CH1538012 
Title: 
Fumiko, Yeichi Nimura, Robert Ripley, Lisan Kay, and Ming aboard the "Mon Lei," October 1946 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Mary Martin photo inscribed to Yeichi Nimura, 1946 (back)
ID: 
CH1538010 
Title: 
Mary Martin photo inscribed to Yeichi Nimura, 1946 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Fumiko, Yeichi Nimura, Robert Ripley, Lisan Kay, and Ming aboard the "Mon Lei," October 1946 (back)
ID: 
CH1538008 
Title: 
Fumiko, Yeichi Nimura, Robert Ripley, Lisan Kay, and Ming aboard the "Mon Lei," October 1946 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Paul Swan in his Carnegie Hall Studio
ID: 
CH1538007 
Title: 
Paul Swan in his Carnegie Hall Studio 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay and Isaiah D. Ruffin, October 1994 (back)
ID: 
CH1538009 
Title: 
Lisan Kay and Isaiah D. Ruffin, October 1994 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay and Isaiah D. Ruffin, October 1994
ID: 
CH1538006 
Title: 
Lisan Kay and Isaiah D. Ruffin, October 1994 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay in Nimura's Scimitar Dance (c. 1932), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1538005 
Title: 
Lisan Kay in Nimura's Scimitar Dance (c. 1932), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Kazuko Hirabayashi at G.M. Plaza, August 9, 1975 (back)
ID: 
CH1538002 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Kazuko Hirabayashi at G.M. Plaza, August 9, 1975 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Kazuko Hirabayashi at G.M. Plaza, August 9, 1975
ID: 
CH1538004 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Kazuko Hirabayashi at G.M. Plaza, August 9, 1975 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay in Nimura's Scimitar Dance (c. 1932), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1538003 
Title: 
Lisan Kay in Nimura's Scimitar Dance (c. 1932), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura's grandfather Shishu Miki in Suwa, Japan, c. 1900 (back)
ID: 
CH1538001 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura's grandfather Shishu Miki in Suwa, Japan, c. 1900 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura's grandfather Shishu Miki in Suwa, Japan, c. 1900
ID: 
CH1538000 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura's grandfather Shishu Miki in Suwa, Japan, c. 1900 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura's "Nelcomota" by Nishiyawa (c.1930), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977
ID: 
CH1537999 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura's "Nelcomota" by Nishiyawa (c.1930), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura's "Nelcomota" by Nishiyawa (c.1930), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back)
ID: 
CH1537998 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura's "Nelcomota" by Nishiyawa (c.1930), hanging at 330 W. 55th Street, 1977 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay Nimura, October 1994
ID: 
CH1537997 
Title: 
Lisan Kay Nimura, October 1994 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Lisan Kay Nimura, October 1994 (back)
ID: 
CH1537996 
Title: 
Lisan Kay Nimura, October 1994 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Young Yeichi Nimura with the Junior Band of Suwa, Japan, 1905 (back)
ID: 
CH1537995 
Title: 
Young Yeichi Nimura with the Junior Band of Suwa, Japan, 1905 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Young Yeichi Nimura with the Junior Band of Suwa, Japan, 1905
ID: 
CH1537994 
Title: 
Young Yeichi Nimura with the Junior Band of Suwa, Japan, 1905 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Robert Ripley, Fumiko, and Lisan Kay on the "Mon Lei," October 1946 (back)
ID: 
CH1537993 
Title: 
Robert Ripley, Fumiko, and Lisan Kay on the "Mon Lei," October 1946 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Robert Ripley, Fumiko, and Lisan Kay on the "Mon Lei," October 1946
ID: 
CH1537992 
Title: 
Robert Ripley, Fumiko, and Lisan Kay on the "Mon Lei," October 1946 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay at Danube River, 1934 (back)
ID: 
CH1537990 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay at Danube River, 1934 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay at Danube River, 1934
ID: 
CH1537991 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay at Danube River, 1934 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Robert Ripley, and others on Ripley's "Mon Lei," October 1946
ID: 
CH1537988 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Robert Ripley, and others on Ripley's "Mon Lei," October 1946 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Robert Ripley, and others on Ripley's "Mon Lei," October 1946 (back)
ID: 
CH1537989 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Robert Ripley, and others on Ripley's "Mon Lei," October 1946 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Temple in Constantinople, Turkey, December 1936 (back)
ID: 
CH1537987 
Title: 
Temple in Constantinople, Turkey, December 1936 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Temple in Constantinople, Turkey, December 1936
ID: 
CH1537986 
Title: 
Temple in Constantinople, Turkey, December 1936 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura with his cat Ramas, c. 1944 (back)
ID: 
CH1537985 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura with his cat Ramas, c. 1944 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in Cairo, 1936
ID: 
CH1537984 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in Cairo, 1936 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura with his cat Ramas, c. 1944
ID: 
CH1537983 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura with his cat Ramas, c. 1944 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura, 1948 (back)
ID: 
CH1537982 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura, 1948 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura, 1948
ID: 
CH1537981 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura, 1948 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in Cairo, 1936 (back)
ID: 
CH1537979 
Title: 
Yeichi Nimura and Lisan Kay in Cairo, 1936 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Summer School, featuring Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Sali Lobel, and John Martin, summer 1932
ID: 
CH1537980 
Title: 
Summer School, featuring Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Sali Lobel, and John Martin, summer 1932 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
Summer School, featuring Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Sali Lobel, and John Martin, summer 1932 (back)
ID: 
CH1537978 
Title: 
Summer School, featuring Yeichi Nimura, Lisan Kay, Sali Lobel, and John Martin, summer 1932 (back) 
Source name: 
Carnegie Hall Rose Archives 
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