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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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Scene from the stage production Merrily We Roll Along
Superimposed publicity photograph of Jose Ferrer and Judith Evelyn in the stage production The Shrike
Superimposed publicity photograph of Jose Ferrer and Judith Evelyn in the stage production The Shrike
The Shrike, by J. Kramm
The Shrike, by J. Kramm
The Shrike, by J. Kramm
The Shrike, by J. Kramm
The Shrike, by J. Kramm
The Shrike, by J. Kramm
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Menuetto" with Helgi Tomasson, Maria Calegari and Kyra Nichols, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Menuetto" with Helgi Tomasson, Maria Calegari and Kyra Nichols, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Menuetto" with Helgi Tomasson, Maria Calegari and Kyra Nichols, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet production of "Menuetto" with Otto Neubert, Maria Calegari and Alexandre Proia, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet production of "Menuetto" with Maria Calegari, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet production of "Menuetto" with Maria Calegari and Otto Neubert, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet production of "Menuetto" with Lauren Hauser, choreography by Helgi Tomasson (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with Karin von Aroldingen, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with George Balanchine, Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with George Balanchine, Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with George Balanchine, Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with George Balanchine, Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with George Balanchine, Kay Mazzo and Peter Martins, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet rehearsal of "Chopiniana", with George Balanchine and Susan Hendl, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet production of "Chopiniana", George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova on stage directing dancers, staged by Alexandra Danilova after Michel Fokine (New York)
New York City Ballet production of "Chopiniana", choreography by George Balanchine (New York)
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Martha Swope photographs
55,878 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
50,089 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
34,424 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
6,973 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,326 items
Robinson Locke Collection
2,056 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
1,650 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,271 items
R. H. Burnside collection
925 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
408 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
388 items
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
306 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
295 items
Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
219 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
204 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
134 items
Avery Willard photographs
130 items
R. H. Burnside collection
108 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
107 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
105 items
L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
Mary Bryant papers
96 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs,1928-1936
88 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
81 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
81 items
New York City theater marquees
80 items
American Theatre Wing scrapbooks
66 items
Ruth Mitchell papers
59 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
43 items
Brooke Hayward papers
41 items
Edward Kleban papers
40 items
Alexandra Exter collection
34 items
Isaiah Sheffer Papers
34 items
Ken Dewey Collection
32 items
Robert Benney research materials
32 items
C. A. Muller actors portraits
32 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
31 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
31 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
29 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
29 items
Lucille Lortel Papers
28 items
Donald Angus collection of Carl Van Vechten postcards and photographs, circa 1890s-1959
27 items
America's prima-donna in a score of brilliant portraitures
27 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
27 items
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
25 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
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation.
20 items
Magic Scrapbooks: separated posters
20 items
Max Eastman papers
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
Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
16 items
Ping Chong Archive
15 items
James Gossage Photographs
14 items
Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig, 1898-1967.
14 items
Katharine Hepburn papers
14 items
Theatre for Walter Hartwig Esq. Ogunquit, ME. - Ogunquit Playhouse.
13 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division book file
12 items
Stead Collection
12 items
Richard Rodgers Papers
12 items
Tharon Musser designs and papers
12 items
Camp Shows Publicity Records,
11 items
Window cards
10 items
Luther Adler papers
10 items
Elaine Stritch papers
10 items
David Belasco papers
9 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division periodicals file
9 items
Robert Baral 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
Robert Boucher papers
8 items
Greenwich Village Follies designs
7 items
Lillian Gish papers
7 items
Cheryl Crawford papers
7 items
Jo Mielziner papers
7 items
Sothern and Marlowe collection
6 items
Theatre arts
6 items
Comden and Green papers
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, 1957-1996.
5 items
Boris Aronson papers and designs
5 items
E. Y. (Yip) Harburg papers
5 items
Tony Straiges designs
4 items
Posters: The Hanlon-Lees
4 items
Abe Burrows papers
4 items
Dorothy Kilgallen papers and scrapbooks
4 items
Martin Worman papers
4 items
Clifford Odets papers
4 items
Wizard of Oz costume designs and illustrations,1902-1907 and undated
4 items
Leon Bakst designs
4 items
John Golden papers
4 items
Gilbert Adrian costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
4 items
Howard Bay designs and technical drawings
4 items
Play pictorial.
4 items
Gene Frankel papers
4 items
Au cirque: vingt-deux dessins aux crayons de couleur
3 items
Bert Bertram scrapbooks
3 items
Ruth Clark papers
3 items
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers, 1879-1964 bulk (1920-1961).
3 items
Hippodrome visual materials, [1905-1919]
3 items
Townsend Walsh Scrapbook Collection
3 items
Theatre magazine.
3 items
Billy Rose papers
2 items
Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder 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
Joseph Buloff Papers, 1925-1993
2 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection originals file
2 items
The secrets of stage conjuring
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
souvenir of Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice : as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, December 21, 1922.
2 items
Actor's Workshop and Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center records
2 items
Madam Modjeska scrapbooks
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
Costume designs
2 items
Arnold Auerbach papers
2 items
Actors' directory & studio guide
2 items
Exhibitor.
1 item
Arthur Hopkins Papers
1 item
Castle, Vernon and Irene: Scrapbook.
1 item
M-U-M
1 item
Joan McCracken ephemera
1 item
Clippings of her newspaper column, Texas Guinan says, 1930-1931.
1 item
Anne Nichols papers, 1873-1965.
1 item
Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, (bulk 1895-1963).
1 item
Theatre world.
1 item
Costume designs for Ziegfeld midnight frolic, 1928.
1 item
Conjurers' monthly magazine.
1 item
Theatre Guild Collection
1 item
John Latouche papers
1 item
Joshua Logan correspondence and ephemera, 1920-1989.
1 item
Rosamond Gilder papers
1 item
Edward Harrigan papers
1 item
Nouvel art cinématographique.
1 item
Margaret E. Lynn Army Music and Theatre Collection 1967-1978
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
Dicks' standard plays. Jane Eyre.
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
Costume designs for Coriolanus
1 item
Courrier cinematographique: Organe hebdomadaire indépendent de la cinematographie des arts, sciences et industries qui s'y rattachent
1 item
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
1 item
Illustrated catalogue of photographer's negatives
1 item
Sy Friedman Photographs
1 item
The Standard.
1 item
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
1 item
Paul Muni papers
1 item
Jay Gorney papers
1 item