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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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Sketch for the renovation of the stage for the War Memorial Opera House
Processes sketches of pylons for the renovation of the stage of the War Memorial Opera House
Si Ud. fuera Estrella en Hollywood consultaria a menudo con Max Factor
"Mis estrellas favoritas son las de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer," dis Lola, la chica de Hollywood
Modas de Hollywood
Leading Ladies
You must come over to a free theatre. It is Butler Davenport's, where Moliere is played and boy shoots marbles in the aisle
The Davenport Free Theatre. Purposes
Five taxi dancers in evening gowns
Jackie Gleason's TV Army
Costumes in Shakespeare's Play of The Winter's Tale
Simply heavenly
Article on the female dancers in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe show as published in the Sunday Mirror Magazine Section
Boris Karloff in person Arsenic and old lace by Joseph Kesserling
Lillian Russell in Apollo
Lillian Russell in Apollo
Lillian Russell in Apollo
Lillian Russell in The Snake Charmer
Lillian Russell in The Snake Charmer
Lillian Russell in The Queen's Mate
Lillian Russell in The Queen's Mate
Lillian Russell in The Queen's Mate
Lillian Russell in An American Beauty
Lillian Russell in An American Beauty
Lillian Russell in Patience
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Martha Swope photographs
62,759 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
57,210 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
41,337 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs
16,095 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,049 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,863 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,242 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,231 items
R. H. Burnside collection
1,102 items
Willa Kim designs
608 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
463 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
388 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
335 items
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
307 items
Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
229 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
205 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
204 items
Cinelandia
200 items
Motion picture record
146 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
145 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
143 items
Avery Willard photographs
131 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
124 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
Boris Aronson papers and designs
59 items
Robinson Locke collection
56 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Joan Marcus photographs
53 items
[new] Circle in the Square papers
45 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
43 items
Richard Rodgers papers
42 items
Brooke Hayward papers
41 items
Edward Kleban papers
40 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
39 items
Ken Dewey Collection
39 items
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
37 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
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer papers and designs
28 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
28 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
25 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
20 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
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
Camp Shows Publicity Records
11 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division periodicals file
11 items
Robert Baral papers
11 items
Jo Mielziner papers
11 items
Carol Rosegg photographs
11 items
Empresario internacional
10 items
Luther Adler papers
10 items
Elaine Stritch papers
10 items
David Belasco papers
9 items
Greenwich Village Follies designs
9 items
Lillian Gish 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
James Gossage photographs
8 items
James Gossage additions
7 items
Abe Burrows papers
7 items
Theatre arts
7 items
Donald Oenslager papers and designs
7 items
George E. Joseph photographs
6 items
Margaret E. Lynn Army Music and Theatre Collection
6 items
Margaret Barker papers
6 items
Sothern and Marlowe collection
6 items
Comden and Green papers
6 items
Robinson Locke Collection
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
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
Otto Harbach Papers
3 items
Au cirque: vingt-deux dessins aux crayons de couleur
3 items
Bert Bertram scrapbooks
3 items
Peter Stone papers
3 items
Willa Kim collection of scripts
3 items
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers
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
Paramount Studios Motion Picture Stills Scrapbooks, 1927-1947
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
Frank Wilstach papers on Sothern and Marlowe
2 items
Anthony Imperato, Trini Alvarado and unidentified others in the stage production of Runaways
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
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
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
Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984
2 items
Hallie Flanagan papers
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
Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932
1 item
Souvenir album: scenes of the play Ben-Hur
1 item
Sol Jacobson papers
1 item
Stuart Ostrow papers
1 item
Charles Le Maire costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies [graphic]
1 item
French Institute in the United States gift of designs,1917-1947
1 item
Four years in Europe: the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth in the Old World
1 item
Playwrights' Company records
1 item
Castle, Vernon and Irene: Scrapbook.
1 item
Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine
1 item
Kenneth Foy papers
1 item
Gag book] A numbered collection of jokes, hand-written in an 1886 edition of Collins' scribbling diary. Humor typical of English music-halls and American vaudeville shows.
1 item
Marion Davies papers,1915-1928
1 item
Mary Ellis papers
1 item
Joan McCracken ephemera
1 item
America's prima-donna in a score of brilliant portraitures
1 item
Texas Guinan scrapbook and clippings
1 item
Costume designs for Ziegfeld midnight frolic, 1928.
1 item
Romeo and Juliet
1 item
Gregory Hines as Scrooge in the stage production Comin' Uptown.
1 item
Romeo and Juliet
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
Oliver costume design for Oliver Twist
1 item
Le Nouvel art cinématographique.
1 item
Rosamond Gilder papers
1 item
Tony Straiges designs
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
Salome
1 item
Little Johnny Jones pamphlet
1 item
Coriolanus costume designs
1 item
Michael Friedman papers
1 item
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
1 item
The play-pictorial
1 item
Illustrated catalogue of photographer's negatives
1 item
New York and regional theatrical souvenir programs,1903-1937
1 item
Tony Pastor collection
1 item
Sy Friedman Photographs
1 item
United Scenic Artists exam designs
1 item
Annals of the New York stage
1 item
M-U-M
1 item
Peter Pan costume designs
1 item
The black crook: an original magical and spectacular drama in four acts
1 item
Anne Nichols papers, 1873-1965
1 item
The Standard.
1 item
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
1 item
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation.
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