Dolly Parton, 1977

Caption: Dolly Parton performed at the Bottom Line in Manhattan, and a subsequent review in The Times announced, “It was a triumph” on May 12, 1977. Though beset by personal and professional struggles as she restaffed her band and cut some old Nashville ties to appeal to the mainstream pop market, the audience was won over, “and rewarded her with an idolatrous ovation at the end.”

Bio: Marilynn K. Yee was a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1977 until her retirement in 2014. She was the first female Asian-American staff photographer at The Times. She was raised in California, attended San Jose State University to study photography and worked briefly at The Los Angeles Times before coming to New York.

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Photographer's Website: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/exploring-the-world-in-new-york/