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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.
Items in the Billy Rose Theatre Division See More
Pencil sketch of a set design for the stage production All Summer Long
The Frome kitchen
Up and down stage walls and entrance door/ fire escape, fire escape silhouettes and railing of stoop: set design for "The Glass Menagerie"
Helen Hayes and Johnny Stewart standing under sign for Mary Chase's Alley on West 48th Street
Arthur Mitchell in The Four Temperaments
Zero Mostel (as Tevye) in the stage production of Fiddler on the Roof (conversing with God)
Unidentified woman, Boris Aronson and Hal Prince during production of Fiddler on the Roof
Mail order form for the 1953 revival of Oklahoma!
Jay Gorney and Jan Clayton rehearsing song "There Was a Fellow and a Girl" for the stage production Meet the People
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Scene from the stage production The Music Man
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Martha Swope photographs
50,578 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
49,685 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
30,672 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
6,972 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,302 items
Robinson Locke Collection
2,054 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
1,647 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,241 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
388 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
380 items
R. H. Burnside collection
358 items
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
306 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
283 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
204 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
132 items
Avery Willard photographs
130 items
L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
102 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
101 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs,1928-1936
88 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
81 items
Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
81 items
New York City theater marquees
80 items
American Theatre Wing scrapbooks
66 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
57 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Ruth Mitchell papers
46 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
43 items
Edward Kleban papers
40 items
Isaiah Sheffer Papers
34 items
C. A. Muller actors portraits
32 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
31 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
30 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
28 items
Lucille Lortel Papers
28 items
America's prima-donna in a score of brilliant portraitures
27 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
27 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
26 items
Donald Angus collection of Carl Van Vechten postcards and photographs, circa 1890s-1959
26 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
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
23 items
Brooke Hayward papers
21 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
Max Eastman papers
18 items
Philippe Halsman theatrical photographs, 1947-1969
17 items
Circus and magic posters
17 items
Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
16 items
James Gossage Photographs
14 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division book file
12 items
Stead Collection
12 items
Tharon Musser designs and papers
12 items
Camp Shows Publicity Records,
11 items
Katharine Hepburn papers
11 items
Anita Arden scrapbooks, 1920-1996
8 items
Booth-Grossman family papers
8 items
Souvenir collection of costume designs
8 items
Elaine Stritch papers
8 items
Robert Boucher papers
8 items
David Belasco papers
7 items
Window cards
7 items
Luther Adler papers
7 items
Lillian Gish papers
7 items
Studio One production files
6 items
Ken Dewey Collection
6 items
Harold Prince papers
6 items
Sophie Tucker scrapbooks
6 items
Sothern and Marlowe collection
6 items
Theatre arts
6 items
Cheryl Crawford papers
6 items
Richard Rodgers Papers
6 items
Comden and Green papers
6 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division periodicals file
6 items
Robert Baral papers
6 items
Pictures Bre-Brok
6 items
Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies.
6 items
Peter Wexler photographs and designs, 1957-1996.
5 items
E. Y. (Yip) Harburg papers
5 items
Tony Straiges designs
4 items
Posters: The Halon-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
Donald Oenslager papers and designs
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
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers, 1879-1964 bulk (1920-1961).
3 items
Jo Mielziner 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
Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder papers
2 items
Salle de spectacle de Bordeaux, par M. Louis.
2 items
A. J. Antoon papers
2 items
Series III: Oversized Materials
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
Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig, 1898-1967.
2 items
Dybbuk
2 items
Color transparencies and slides
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
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
Ball of the fine arts, 1916 : programs
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
Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, (bulk 1895-1963).
1 item
Theatre world.
1 item
Conjurers' monthly magazine.
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
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
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
1 item
The Standard.
1 item
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
1 item
Paul Muni papers
1 item
Jay Gorney papers
1 item
Edison kinetogram
1 item