Billy Rose Theatre Collection

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Alice O'Neill costume design for the Greenwich Village follies
America's prima-donna in a score of brilliant portraitures... ([1896?])
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
Avery Willard photographs, 1919-1993, (bulk 1940-1970)
Ball of the fine arts, 1916 : programs (1916)
Billy Rose Theater Collection clipping file
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file.
Billy Rose Theatre Collection originals file
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file.
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scrapbooks
Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
Booth-Grossman family papers, 1840-1953.
C. A. Muller actors portraits, ca. 1870-1897. (1870-1897)
Camp Shows Publicity Records,
Castle, Vernon and Irene: Scrapbook. ([various dates])
Charles Le Maire costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies [graphic]
Circle in the Square collection
Circus and magic posters
Au cirque : vingt-deux dessins aux crayons de couleur. (1905)
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera, 1697-1930.
Conjurers' monthly magazine.
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation. (1915)
David Belasco papers, 1868-1967
David Garrick manuscript materials and ephemera, 1730-1900 : portfolio (1730-1900)
Designs for The garden of paradise, 1914.
Dicks' standard plays. Jane Eyre.
Donald Oenslager collection of Edward Gordon Craig, 1898-1967.
Donald Oenslager papers and designs, 1922-1982
Dybbuk
The Edison kinetogram.
Posters : The Halon-Lees. (ca. 1850-1900)
Eunice Stoddard papers, 1913-1938.
The Exhibitor.
Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984.
Friedman-Abeles photograph collection
[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.
The 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 histo.... (1863)
Gilbert Adrian costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies. (1920)
Gypsy Rose Lee papers, 1910-1970.
Herman Rosse set and costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies (1920-1925/1920-1925)
Howard Bay designs and technical drawings, 1934-1985
Jo Mielziner papers, designs and technical drawings, 1903-1976.
Joan McCracken Ephemera, 1930-1958
Joe Laurie, Jr. papers, 1880-1950.
Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994)
Kenn Duncan photograph archive, ca. 1960-1986
L. J. Binns caricatures, 1901-1915.
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, 1.... (1863)
Lillian Gish papers, 1909-1992.
Little Johnny Jones pamphlet. ([1907?])
Lucille Lortel Papers
Martha Swope photographs
MWEZ+ n.c. 18,869
New York City theater marquees, 1997- . (1997-)
Le Nouvel art cinématographique.
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers, 1879-1964 bulk (1920-1961).
Original Designs Greenwich Village Follies
Philippe Halsman theatrical photographs, 1947-1969
Pictures Bre-Brok
Ping Chong archive, 1971-2007 (bulk 1980-2007).
Richard Rodgers Papers, 1914-1989
Richard Tucker photographs, 1934-1951
Robert A. Wilson slides, 1956-1969
Robert Baral papers, 1876-1980.
Robert Benney original drawings, 1926-1947
Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978.
Robert Ten Eyck Stevenson costume designs for the Greenwich Village follies. (1926)
Robinson Locke Collection, 1870-1920.
Salle de spectacle de Bordeaux, par M. Louis. (1782)
Sappho; adapted from the novel of Alphonse Daudet. ([1900?])
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906.
Souvenir album : scenes of the play Ben-Hur. (1900)
Theatre Guild Collection
Theatre magazine.
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957.
Vicar of Wakefield; Virgin of the Sun; Vortigern; Way of the World; Wreck Ashore ephemera, 1758-1906 : portfolio.
White Studio theatrical photographs
Window cards.

Digital Gallery Collection Guides


"Penny Plains" and "Two-pence Coloured:" English Theatrical Portraits, 1799-1847, in the William Appleton Collection
"Queen of Off-Broadway:" Lucille Lortel Collection Photographs, 1902-1998
Marquees, 1997-2001: New York City Theatre Photographs by Christopher Frith
On Stage and Screen: Photograph File of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection
Theatre Productions and Players, 1920s-1960: Vandamm Studio Photographs

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Circus -- Wagons
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