Billy Rose Theatre Division

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Kevin Spacey, Val Kilmer, Robert Westenberg, Mandy Patinkin and unidentified other in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Kevin Spacey, Val Kilmer, Robert Westenberg, Mandy Patinkin and unidentified other in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

John Vickery and unidentified other in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

John Vickery and unidentified other in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Fight scene featuring soldiers in costume in the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Performers in shorts rehearsing fight choreography outside with sticks for the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Performers in shorts rehearsing fight choreography outside with sticks for the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Performers in shorts rehearsing fight choreography outside with sticks for the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Performers in shorts rehearsing fight choreography outside with sticks for the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Performers in shorts rehearsing fight choreography outside with sticks for the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Performers in shorts rehearsing fight choreography outside with sticks for the stage production Henry IV, Part I at the Delacorte Theater

Unidentified actors in a scene from the stage production Henry IV, Part 1 at the Delacorte Theater

Unidentified actors in a scene from the stage production Henry IV, Part 1 at the Delacorte Theater

Lawrence Barrett

Lawrence Barrett

Lawrence Barrett

Lawrence Barrett

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

Lillie Langtry as Rosalind in "As You Like It"

George Alexander

George Alexander

Clara Morris

Clara Morris

F.C. Burnand

F.C. Burnand

George Alexander, H.H. Vincent, Nutcombe Gould, A. Vane-Tempest, Ben Webster in the stage production Lady Windermere's Fan

George Alexander, H.H. Vincent, Nutcombe Gould, A. Vane-Tempest, Ben Webster in the stage production Lady Windermere's Fan

George Alexander, H.H. Vincent, Nutcombe Gould, A. Vane-Tempest, Ben Webster in the stage production Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde

George Alexander, H.H. Vincent, Nutcombe Gould, A. Vane-Tempest, Ben Webster in the stage production Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde

Lillian Russell in Patience

Lillian Russell in Patience

Lillian Russell in Patience

Lillian Russell in Patience

Marie Prescott

Marie Prescott

Marie Prescott

Marie Prescott

Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division

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Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
57,011 items
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Martha Swope photographs
50,876 items
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Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
39,841 items
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Friedman-Abeles photographs
21,628 items
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Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,040 items
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Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,726 items
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White Studio theatrical photographs
2,233 items
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R. H. Burnside collection
1,106 items
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Circle in the Square papers
1,101 items
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Willa Kim designs
836 items
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Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
438 items
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Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
325 items
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Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
307 items
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Cinelandia
239 items
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Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
229 items
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New York Shakespeare Festival records
201 items
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Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
195 items
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[new] Circle in the Square papers
164 items
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Carol Rosegg photographs
157 items
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Motion picture record
153 items
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Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
128 items
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Joan Marcus photographs
118 items
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Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
116 items
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L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
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Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
102 items
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Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
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Avery Willard photographs
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Mary Bryant papers
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Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
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New York City theater marquees
80 items
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Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1924-1938
60 items
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Boris Aronson papers and designs
59 items
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American Theatre Wing scrapbooks
58 items
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Robinson Locke collection
56 items
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Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
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Ruth Mitchell papers
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Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1928-1936
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Robert A. Wilson slides
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Richard Rodgers papers
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Ken Dewey Collection
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Brooke Hayward papers
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Richard Nelson papers and designs
36 items
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Alexandra Exter collection
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Robert Benney research materials
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C. A. Muller actors portraits
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Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
31 items
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Reza Abdoh collection of papers
31 items
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Gypsy Rose Lee papers
29 items
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Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer papers and designs
28 items
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Donald Angus collection of Carl Van Vechten postcards and photographs, circa 1890s-1959
27 items
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Caffe Cino posters
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Jumbo costume designs
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Ping Chong Archive
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Lucille Lortel papers
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Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
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Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
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Edward Kleban papers
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Magic scrapbooks and posters
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Photographs of actors who played Hamlet, 1983
18 items
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Stead Collection
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Philippe Halsman theatrical photographs, 1947-1969
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Circus and magic posters
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Isaiah Sheffer Papers
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Window cards
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Leland Hayward papers
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Teatro al día
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Theatre for Walter Hartwig Esq. Ogunquit, ME. - Ogunquit Playhouse.
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Jo Mielziner papers
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Katharine Hepburn papers
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Mary Rodgers Guettel collection of set and costume designs,1936-1965
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Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder papers
12 items
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Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for the ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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Tharon Musser designs and papers
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Camp Shows Publicity Records
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Empresario internacional
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Billy Rose Theatre Division book file
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Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
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Billy Rose Theatre Division periodicals file
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Luther Adler papers
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Max Eastman papers
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Robert Baral papers
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Greenwich Village Follies designs
9 items
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Anita Arden scrapbooks, 1920-1996
8 items
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Richard Hoover designs and papers
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James Gossage photographs
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David Belasco papers
7 items
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Booth-Grossman family papers
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Harold Prince papers
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Lillian Gish papers
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Theatre arts
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Donald Oenslager papers and designs
7 items
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Cheryl Crawford papers
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George E. Joseph photographs
6 items
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Margaret E. Lynn Army Music and Theatre Collection
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Margaret Barker papers
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Sothern and Marlowe collection
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Elaine Stritch papers
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The Play pictorial
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Pictures Bre-Brok
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Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
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James Gossage additions
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Abe Burrows papers
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Paddy Chayefsky papers
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Sophie Tucker scrapbooks
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Peter Wexler photographs and designs
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Comden and Green papers
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Posters: The Hanlon-Lees
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Souvenir collection of costume designs
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Clifford Odets papers
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Howard Bay designs and technical drawings
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Robert Boucher papers
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Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof papers
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Franne Lee papers and designs
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John Golden papers
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Gilbert Adrian costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
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Studio One production files
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Chamberlain and Lyman Brown papers
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Otto Harbach Papers
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Au cirque: vingt-deux dessins aux crayons de couleur
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Bert Bertram scrapbooks
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Wizard of Oz costume designs and illustrations,1902-1907 and undated
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Peter Stone papers
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Willa Kim collection of scripts
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Tony Straiges designs
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Olive Reeves-Smith Papers
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Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures
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Ruth Clark papers
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Hippodrome visual materials, [1905-1919]
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Townsend Walsh Scrapbook Collection
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Paramount Studios Motion Picture Stills Scrapbooks, 1927-1947
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E. Y. (Yip) Harburg papers
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Theatre magazine.
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Salle de spectacle de Bordeaux, par M. Louis
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John Van Druten papers, 1901-1957
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Billy Rose Theatre Collection originals file
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Annual benefit
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Dorothy Kilgallen papers and scrapbooks
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Costume designs by Adrian
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Harry Hershfield collection
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Martin Worman papers
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The secrets of stage conjuring
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David Garrick manuscript materials and ephemera, 1730-1900 : portfolio
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Designs for The garden of paradise, 1914.
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Harry K. Morton family scrapbooks and memorabilia
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Leon Bakst designs
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Herman Rosse set and costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies
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A souvenir of Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice : as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, December 21, 1922.
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Aline MacMahon papers
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Madam Modjeska scrapbooks
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Joseph Buloff papers
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Theatre world
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L'électricité au théatre
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Leah: the forsaken: A play in five acts
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Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984
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Hallie Flanagan papers
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The Big Show set designs by Mark Lawson and Nash
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Gene Frankel papers
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The Exhibitor
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Billy Rose papers
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Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932
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Souvenir album: scenes of the play Ben-Hur
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Reginald Marsh drawings
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Sol Jacobson papers
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Stuart Ostrow papers
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Charles Le Maire costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies [graphic]
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A. J. Antoon papers
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French Institute in the United States gift of designs,1917-1947
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Four years in Europe: the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth in the Old World
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Ellis Rabb papers
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Ball of the fine arts, 1916 : program
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Playwrights' Company records
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Castle, Vernon and Irene: Scrapbook.
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Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine
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Kenneth Foy papers
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Gag book] A numbered collection of jokes, hand-written in an 1886 edition of Collins' scribbling diary. Humor typical of English music-halls and American vaudeville shows.
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Marion Davies papers,1915-1928
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Mary Ellis papers
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Joan McCracken ephemera
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Frank Wilstach papers on Sothern and Marlowe
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America's prima-donna in a score of brilliant portraitures
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Anthony Imperato, Trini Alvarado and unidentified others in the stage production of Runaways
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Texas Guinan scrapbook and clippings
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Costume designs for Ziegfeld midnight frolic, 1928.
1 item
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Romeo and Juliet
1 item
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Gregory Hines as Scrooge in the stage production Comin' Uptown.
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Romeo and Juliet
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Conjurers' monthly magazine
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Color transparencies and slides
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John Latouche papers
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Joshua Logan correspondence and ephemera, 1920-1989.
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Edward Harrigan papers
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Oliver costume design for Oliver Twist
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Le Nouvel art cinématographique.
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Rosamond Gilder papers
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Vicar of Wakefield; Virgin of the Sun; Vortigern; Way of the World; Wreck Ashore ephemera, 1758-1906 : portfolio.
1 item
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Robert Patrick papers
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Eunice Stoddard papers
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The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis
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Actor's Workshop and Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center records
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Circle Repertory Company records
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Courrier cinematographique: Organe hebdomadaire indépendent de la cinematographie des arts, sciences et industries qui s'y rattachent
1 item
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Salome
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Little Johnny Jones pamphlet
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Coriolanus costume designs
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Michael Friedman papers
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Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
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The play-pictorial
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Illustrated catalogue of photographer's negatives
1 item
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New York and regional theatrical souvenir programs,1903-1937
1 item
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Tony Pastor collection
1 item
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Sy Friedman Photographs
1 item
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United Scenic Artists exam designs
1 item
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Annals of the New York stage
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M-U-M
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Peter Pan costume designs
1 item
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Arnold Auerbach papers
1 item
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Actors' directory & studio guide
1 item
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The black crook: an original magical and spectacular drama in four acts
1 item
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Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams
1 item
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Anne Nichols papers, 1873-1965
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The Standard.
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Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
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D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation.
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Paul Muni papers
1 item
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Arthur Hopkins papers
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Jay Gorney papers
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Cent ans de théâtre par la photographie : comédiens et comédiennes d'hier
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Robinson Locke Collection