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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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Henry Irving's dressing room.
Hamlet and King Claudius.
Green grow the lilacs: a play in six scenes
Oklahoma!, act I dream ballet set design
Color notes for tent framed hanger for Carousel Scene 1-1
Ballet backdrop
Color sketches for center of S.L. Traveler Ornament
Color note for Spa backing: Spa Scene I-3
Elevation of Nettie’s Room Units-23
Print showing drawing for two buildings for Spa Scene
Color sketch for Border and Pole for Carousel Scene
Nettie’s Room
Color sketches Spa Scene
Aerial view of harbor: ground row covers lower
Color sketch for ballet maskings: legs and borders
Color detail trees Shorewalk 1-2
Clouds 1 & 2
Backdrop for Clambake 2-1
Color sketches for posters (for draped screen)
Color sketches for Carousel Scene 1-1
Ornament for Traveler: frame same for both
For color only: trees for school house scene
Color detail for trees for Clam Bake 2-1
3 Horses for Heaven Ballet, 23A
Color treatment sketches and color samples for Back Yard of Heaven Scene
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
49,384 items
Martha Swope photographs
32,784 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
27,419 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
6,960 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,147 items
Robinson Locke Collection
2,045 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
1,625 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,240 items
R. H. Burnside collection
1,053 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
345 items
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
306 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
271 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
194 items
L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
103 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
102 items
Avery Willard photographs
94 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
85 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
81 items
Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
81 items
New York City theater marquees
80 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
73 items
American Theatre Wing scrapbooks
58 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Richard Tucker photographs, 1934-1951
55 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
43 items
Guide to the New York Shakespeare Festival Records: Series XII: Photographs
41 items
C. A. Muller actors portraits
32 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
31 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
30 items
Lucille Lortel Papers
28 items
Donald Angus collection of Carl Van Vechten postcards and photographs, circa 1890s-1959
26 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
24 items
Ruth Mitchell papers
21 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
21 items
Edward Kleban papers
20 items
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation.
20 items
Magic Scrapbooks: separated posters
20 items
Photographs of actors who played Hamlet, 1983
18 items
Philippe Halsman theatrical photographs, 1947-1969
17 items
Circus and magic posters
17 items
Isaiah Sheffer Papers
17 items
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
16 items
Little Johnny Jones pamphlet.
15 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
13 items
Tharon Musser designs and papers
12 items
Mary Rodgers Guettel collection of set and costume designs,1936-1965
12 items
James Gossage Photographs
11 items
Camp Shows Publicity Records,
11 items
Katharine Hepburn papers
10 items
Stead Collection
9 items
Anita Arden scrapbooks, 1920-1996
8 items
Lillian Gish papers, 1909-1992
8 items
Booth-Grossman family papers
7 items
Window cards
7 items
Luther Adler papers
7 items
ghost! : as produced in the spectre drama, popularly illustrating the marvellous optical illusions obtained by the apparatus called the Dircksian phantasmagoria : being a full account of its history, construction, and various adaptations
7 items
Ken Dewey Collection
6 items
Avery Willard photographs, 1919-1993, (bulk 1940-1970)
6 items
Sothern and Marlowe collection
6 items
Theatre arts
6 items
Richard Rodgers Papers
6 items
Booth-Grossman family papers
6 items
Pictures Bre-Brok
6 items
Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
6 items
Harold Prince papers
5 items
Lillian Gish papers
5 items
Peter Wexler photographs and designs, 1957-1996.
5 items
Cheryl Crawford papers
5 items
Posters: The Halon-Lees
4 items
Souvenir collection of costume designs
4 items
Clifford Odets papers
4 items
Harold Prince papers
4 items
Cheryl Crawford papers
4 items
Comden and Green papers
4 items
Donald Oenslager papers and designs
4 items
Brooke Hayward papers, 1911-1977
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
David Belasco papers
3 items
Studio One production files
3 items
Ping Chong archive
3 items
Sophie Tucker scrapbooks
3 items
Au cirque: vingt-deux dessins aux crayons de couleur
3 items
David Belasco papers, 1868-1967
3 items
Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
3 items
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers, 1879-1964 bulk (1920-1961).
3 items
Robert Baral papers
3 items
Hippodrome visual materials, [1905-1919]
3 items
Townsend Walsh Scrapbook Collection
3 items
E. Y. (Yip) Harburg papers
3 items
Theatre magazine.
3 items
Comden and Green papers, 1933-2003.
3 items
Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder papers
2 items
Salle de spectacle de Bordeaux, par M. Louis.
2 items
Tony Straiges designs
2 items
Series III: Oversized Materials
2 items
Dorothy Kilgallen papers and scrapbooks, 1936-1965
2 items
Abe Burrows 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
Dorothy Kilgallen papers and scrapbooks
2 items
The secrets of stage conjuring
2 items
David Garrick manuscript materials and ephemera, 1730-1900 : portfolio
2 items
Designs for The garden of paradise, 1914.
2 items
Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig, 1898-1967.
2 items
Dybbuk
2 items
Herman Rosse set and costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies
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
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
Gene Frankel papers
2 items
Greenwich Village Follies designs
2 items
Exhibitor.
1 item
Billy Rose papers
1 item
Ball of the fine arts, 1916 : programs
1 item
A. J. Antoon papers
1 item
Ellis Rabb papers
1 item
International Theatre Institute
1 item
Castle, Vernon and Irene: Scrapbook.
1 item
M-U-M
1 item
Circle Repertory Company records, 1965-1996.
1 item
Joan McCracken ephemera
1 item
Frank Wilstach papers on Sothern and Marlowe
1 item
Clippings of her newspaper column, Texas Guinan says, 1930-1931.
1 item
Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, (bulk 1895-1963).
1 item
Theatre world.
1 item
Conjurers' monthly magazine.
1 item
New York Shakespeare Festival Records: Series IV: Production Materials
1 item
Theatre Guild Collection
1 item
Edward Harrigan papers
1 item
Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984.
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
Dicks' standard plays. Jane Eyre.
1 item
Robert Patrick papers, ca. 1940-1984.
1 item
The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis
1 item
Circle Repertory Company records
1 item
Sappho; adapted from the novel of Alphonse Daudet.
1 item
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
1 item
MWEZ+ n.c. 18,869
1 item
Eunice Stoddard papers, 1913-1938.
1 item
Sweet Kitty Bellairs; a comedy of the heart, in four acts. Founded on Egerton Castle's book "The Bath comedy" by David Belasco.
1 item
Arnold Auerbach papers
1 item
Actors' directory & studio guide
1 item
Arthur Hopkins Papers
1 item
The Standard.
1 item
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
1 item
Paul Muni papers
1 item