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Chita Rivera [foreground] and Shark girls perform "America" in the stage production West Side Story
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Ruth Mitchell papers
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Chita Rivera [foreground] and Shark girls perform "America" in the stage production West Side Story" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1957. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/edfccc10-1e31-0135-b23c-738731358170
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Chita Rivera [foreground] and Shark girls perform "America" in the stage production West Side Story" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/edfccc10-1e31-0135-b23c-738731358170
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1957). Chita Rivera [foreground] and Shark girls perform "America" in the stage production West Side Story Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/edfccc10-1e31-0135-b23c-738731358170
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