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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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Federal Theatre of the WPA presents Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre
Lido Lady at the Gaiety Theatre
Al Jolson The Jazz Singer
Decor du 1er acte: Le Port de Samagouste, maquette originale de M. Léon Bakst
Mme. Ida Rubinstein, crèatrice de "La Pisanelle," habillée par Worth
Mme. Ida Rubinstein dans "La Pisanelle" (Prolouge). Aquanelle originale de M. Léon Bakst
Mme. Ida Rubinstein dans "La Pisanelle" (2" acte). Design originale de M. Léon Bakst
M. de Max. Createur du "Prince de Ter" dans "La Pisanelle"
Program for the 1963 revival of The King and I
Program for The Jazz King at the Kurtz Theatre
Chita Rivera performing "Where You Are" in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical "Kiss Of The Spider Woman"
Actors Bernadette Peters and Martin Short in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical "The Goodbye Girl".
Actors Patricia Conolly and Anthony Fusco in a scene from the Roundabout Theater Co.'s production of the play "The Real Inspector Hound" (New York)
Actors Debra Mooney and Hector Elizondo in a scene from the Roundabout Theater Co.'s production of the play "The Price " (New York)
Actors Welker White & Griffin Dunne in a scene fr. the Circle in the Square production of the play "Search and Destroy." (New York)
...Actors Elizabeth Taylor and Tom Aldredge in a scene from the Broadway revival of the play "The Little Foxes." (New York)
Set designed by Jose de Anchieta Costa fr. the New York Shakespeare Festival production of the play "Comedy of Errors" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. (New York)
Program. Special performance: George M. Cohan in I'd Rather Be Right, for the benefit of The Stage Relief Fund
Program for the opening night (5/31/1979) of I Remember Mama at Majestic Theatre
Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks present Liv Ullmann in I Remember Mama, the musical
![[Howdy Stranger] The Playbill The Forty-Sixth Street Theatre](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=2003511&t=t)
[Howdy Stranger] The Playbill The Forty-Sixth Street Theatre
Dwight Deere Wiman presents Jack Haley, Marta Eggert, Shirley Ross in Rodgers and Hart's new musical comedy Higher and Higher at Sam S. Shubert Theatre
Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley present the new musical comedy "Heads up!"
Tremont Theatre. David Belasco presents The Gold Diggers, the famous comedy by Avery Hopwood
Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller present The Girl Friend, a new musical comedy
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Martha Swope photographs
62,700 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
50,110 items
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
39,649 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,073 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,379 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,238 items
Robinson Locke Collection
2,057 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,321 items
R. H. Burnside collection
1,101 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
410 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
388 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
306 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
154 items
Motion picture record
146 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
144 items
Avery Willard photographs
130 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
110 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
110 items
L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
Mary Bryant papers
96 items
Ken Dewey Collection
95 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1928-1936
90 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
81 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
Willa Kim designs
59 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
43 items
Brooke Hayward papers
41 items
Edward Kleban papers
40 items
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
37 items
Richard Nelson papers and designs
35 items
Alexandra Exter collection
34 items
Isaiah Sheffer Papers
34 items
Robert Benney research materials
32 items
C. A. Muller actors portraits
32 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
31 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
30 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
29 items
Lucille Lortel Papers
28 items
Boris Aronson papers and designs
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
Caffe Cino posters
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
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation.
20 items
Max Eastman papers
19 items
Magic scrapbooks
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
Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
16 items
James Gossage Photographs
15 items
Ping Chong Archive
15 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
Margaret E. Lynn Army Music and Theatre Collection 1967-1978
12 items
Tharon Musser designs and papers
12 items
Camp Shows Publicity Records,
11 items
Luther Adler papers
10 items
Elaine Stritch papers
10 items
David Belasco papers
9 items
Greenwich Village Follies designs
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
Lillian Gish papers
7 items
Donald Oenslager papers and designs
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
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, 1957-1996.
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
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
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
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
Joan McCracken ephemera
1 item
Texas Guinan scrapbook and clippings
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
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
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
Richard Hoover designs and papers
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
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
1 item
Illustrated catalogue of photographer's negatives
1 item
Sy Friedman Photographs
1 item
Annals of the New York stage
1 item
M-U-M
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
Jay Gorney papers
1 item
Cent ans de théâtre par la photographie : comédiens et comédiennes d'hier
1 item