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Billy Rose Theatre Division
The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives devoted to the theatrical arts. Encompassing dramatic performance in all its diversity, the division is an indispensable resource for artists, writers, researchers, scholars, students, and the general public.
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Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison in the stage production Kiss Me Kate
Angela Lansbury in the stage production Dear World
Publicity photograph of Dorothy Donnelly
Sidney Poitier and Glynn Turman in the stage production A Raisin in the Sun
![Autographed publicity photograph of George M. Cohan [inscribed: "Yankee doodlefully yours"]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=58363319&t=t)
Autographed publicity photograph of George M. Cohan [inscribed: "Yankee doodlefully yours"]
Handbill advertising The Iceman Cometh including quotations of critical reviews and a mail-order form
Publicity photograph of juggler Gus Hill with Indian clubs
Isabelle Lowe in the stage production Good Gracious Annabelle
Eddie Cantor and unidentified actress in the stage production Kid Boots
Joan Allen and John Malkovich in the stage production Burn This
Handbill for the stage production Some Time
Cover of souvenir program for the stage production Bells are Ringing with inset photograph of Judy Holliday
George Abbott at his desk
Advertising card for the stage production Oh, Boy!
Mary Martin in the stage production One Touch of Venus
Publicity portrait of Jean Kerr
Matthew Broderick in the stage production Brighton Beach Memoirs
Presentation rendering
Fold-out advertising pamphlet for the stage production Annie Dear with inset image of Billie Burke
Jerome Robbins and Anne Bancroft in rehearsal for the stage production Mother Courage and Her Children
Ethel Merman and chorus of sailors in the stage production Anything Goes
Scene from the stage production Lulu Belle
Frank Fay and Dora Clement in the stage production Harvey
Eddie Cantor in blackface with banjo in the stage production Ziegfeld Follies of 1923
Sketch drawing by unknown artist of Lois Fuller performing mystery dance as published in unknown periodical
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Martha Swope photographs
62,755 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
57,571 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
41,335 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,046 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,484 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs
2,427 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,241 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,291 items
R. H. Burnside collection
1,102 items
Willa Kim designs
508 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
426 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
388 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
322 items
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
306 items
Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
219 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
204 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
201 items
Motion picture record
146 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
144 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
142 items
Avery Willard photographs
131 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
124 items
Robinson Locke Collection
118 items
L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
Mary Bryant papers
97 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1928-1936
90 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
84 items
New York City theater marquees
80 items
Ruth Mitchell papers
68 items
American Theatre Wing scrapbooks
66 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1924-1938
60 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Boris Aronson papers and designs
46 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
43 items
Richard Rodgers papers
42 items
Brooke Hayward papers
41 items
Edward Kleban papers
40 items
Ken Dewey Collection
39 items
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
37 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
36 items
Richard Nelson papers and designs
36 items
Alexandra Exter collection
34 items
Isaiah Sheffer Papers
34 items
Robert Benney research materials
32 items
C. A. Muller actors portraits
32 items
Donald Angus collection of Carl Van Vechten postcards and photographs, circa 1890s-1959
27 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
27 items
Caffe Cino posters
26 items
Jumbo costume designs
26 items
Ping Chong Archive
26 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
24 items
Lucille Lortel papers
24 items
Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for the ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table
24 items
Mary Rodgers Guettel collection of set and costume designs,1936-1965
24 items
Stead Collection
21 items
Magic scrapbooks and posters
19 items
Max Eastman papers
19 items
Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
19 items
Photographs of actors who played Hamlet, 1983
18 items
Philippe Halsman theatrical photographs, 1947-1969
17 items
Circus and magic posters
17 items
Window cards
16 items
Leland Hayward papers
16 items
James Gossage Photographs
15 items
Katharine Hepburn papers
14 items
Theatre for Walter Hartwig Esq. Ogunquit, ME. - Ogunquit Playhouse.
13 items
Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder papers
12 items
Teatro al día
12 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division book file
12 items
Tharon Musser designs and papers
12 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division periodicals file
11 items
Camp Shows Publicity Records
10 items
Empresario internacional
10 items
Luther Adler papers
10 items
Elaine Stritch papers
10 items
Robert Baral papers
10 items
David Belasco papers
9 items
Greenwich Village Follies designs
9 items
Lillian Gish papers
9 items
Jo Mielziner papers
9 items
Anita Arden scrapbooks, 1920-1996
8 items
Booth-Grossman family papers
8 items
Harold Prince papers
8 items
Souvenir collection of costume designs
8 items
Sophie Tucker scrapbooks
8 items
Cheryl Crawford papers
8 items
Robert Boucher papers
8 items
Richard Hoover designs and papers
8 items
Abe Burrows papers
7 items
Donald Oenslager papers and designs
7 items
Margaret Barker papers
6 items
Sothern and Marlowe collection
6 items
Theatre arts
6 items
Comden and Green papers
6 items
The Play pictorial
6 items
Pictures Bre-Brok
6 items
Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
6 items
Studio One production files
5 items
Paddy Chayefsky papers
5 items
Peter Wexler photographs and designs
5 items
Wizard of Oz costume designs and illustrations,1902-1907 and undated
5 items
E. Y. (Yip) Harburg papers
5 items
Tony Straiges designs
4 items
Posters: The Hanlon-Lees
4 items
Dorothy Kilgallen papers and scrapbooks
4 items
Martin Worman papers
4 items
Clifford Odets papers
4 items
Howard Bay designs and technical drawings
4 items
Leon Bakst designs
4 items
John Golden papers
4 items
Gilbert Adrian costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
4 items
Gene Frankel papers
4 items
R. H. Burnside collection
3 items
Au cirque: vingt-deux dessins aux crayons de couleur
3 items
Bert Bertram scrapbooks
3 items
Willa Kim collection of scripts
3 items
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers
3 items
Paramount Studios Motion Picture Stills Scrapbooks, 1927-1947
3 items
Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures
3 items
Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof papers
3 items
Ruth Clark papers
3 items
Hippodrome visual materials, [1905-1919]
3 items
Townsend Walsh Scrapbook Collection
3 items
Theatre magazine.
3 items
Billy Rose papers
2 items
Salle de spectacle de Bordeaux, par M. Louis.
2 items
A. J. Antoon papers
2 items
Ellis Rabb papers
2 items
John Van Druten papers, 1901-1957
2 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection originals file
2 items
Annual benefit
2 items
The secrets of stage conjuring
2 items
Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984
2 items
Frank Wilstach papers on Sothern and Marlowe
2 items
David Garrick manuscript materials and ephemera, 1730-1900 : portfolio
2 items
Designs for The garden of paradise, 1914.
2 items
Color transparencies and slides
2 items
Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984.
2 items
Herman Rosse set and costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies
2 items
Harry K. Morton family scrapbooks and memorabilia
2 items
A souvenir of Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice : as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, December 21, 1922.
2 items
Aline MacMahon papers
2 items
Actor's Workshop and Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center records
2 items
Madam Modjeska scrapbooks
2 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
2 items
Joan Marcus photographs
2 items
Joseph Buloff papers
2 items
Theatre world
2 items
L'électricité au théatre
2 items
Leah: the forsaken. A play in five acts. By Augustin Daly. Arranged from the "Deborah" of Mosenthal, expressly for Miss Bateman, and originally produced at the Howard atheneum, Boston, December 8th, 1862.
2 items
The Big Show set designs by Mark Lawson and Nash
2 items
Arnold Auerbach papers
2 items
Actors' directory & studio guide
2 items
The Exhibitor
1 item
French Institute in the United States gift of designs,1917-1947
1 item
Castle, Vernon and Irene: Scrapbook.
1 item
Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine
1 item
Margaret E. Lynn Army Music and Theatre Collection
1 item
Marion Davies papers,1915-1928
1 item
Mary Ellis papers
1 item
Joan McCracken ephemera
1 item
Texas Guinan scrapbook and clippings
1 item
Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, (bulk 1895-1963).
1 item
Costume designs for Ziegfeld midnight frolic, 1928.
1 item
Conjurers' monthly magazine
1 item
John Latouche papers
1 item
Joshua Logan correspondence and ephemera, 1920-1989.
1 item
Edward Harrigan papers
1 item
Le Nouvel art cinématographique.
1 item
Rosamond Gilder papers
1 item
Vicar of Wakefield; Virgin of the Sun; Vortigern; Way of the World; Wreck Ashore ephemera, 1758-1906 : portfolio.
1 item
Robert Patrick papers
1 item
Eunice Stoddard papers
1 item
The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis
1 item
Circle Repertory Company records
1 item
Franne Lee papers and designs
1 item
Courrier cinematographique: Organe hebdomadaire indépendent de la cinematographie des arts, sciences et industries qui s'y rattachent
1 item
Coriolanus costume designs
1 item
Michael Friedman papers
1 item
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
1 item
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer papers and designs
1 item
The play-pictorial
1 item
Illustrated catalogue of photographer's negatives
1 item
Theatre arts
1 item
Tony Pastor collection
1 item
Sy Friedman Photographs
1 item
United Scenic Artists exam designs
1 item
Hallie Flanagan papers
1 item
New York and regional theatrical souvenir programs,1903-1937
1 item
Playwrights' Company records
1 item
Tony Straiges designs
1 item
Annals of the New York stage
1 item
M-U-M
1 item
Carol Rosegg photographs
1 item
Anne Nichols papers, 1873-1965
1 item
The Standard.
1 item
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
1 item
Paul Muni papers
1 item
Ball of the fine arts, 1916 : programs
1 item
Arthur Hopkins papers
1 item
Jay Gorney papers
1 item