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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
Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle
Maude Adams as "Babbie"
Richard Mansfield as Cyrano De Bergerac
E. H. Sothern as D'Artagnan
James K. Hackett as Rudolf Rassendyll
Emma Calvé as Carmen
Ellen Terry as Portia in The Merchant of Venice
Julia Marlowe as Rosalind
Pastel portraits from the romantic drama
Pastel portraits from the romantic drama
Review of "The Way of the World" with publicity photograph of Elsie De Wolfe and Frank Mills, published in unknown periodical
Elsie De Wolfe's Queer Penchant for Odd Shoes
Studio photograph of Elaine Kudo and Mikhail Baryshnikov performing in the ABT production of Tharp's "Sinatra Suite"
George Balanchine rehearsing Edward Villella during the New York City Ballet production of Balanchine's "Swan Lake"
New York City Ballet dancers putting on toe shoes before Balanchine's "Swan Lake"
New York City Ballet dancers seen from wings getting notes before Balanchine's "Swan Lake"
Suzanne Farrell and Jacques d'Amboise in rehearsal for Balanchine's "Swan Lake"
Richard Ward, Lonnie Sattin, and unidentified others in the stage production The Ballad of Jazz Street
Postcard of Fania Marinoff as Wendla in an open field of flowers, related to the stage production The Awakening of Spring
Publicity photograph of Howard Wierum
Publicity photograph of Fran Bennett
Jack Johnson, Russell Dado, Brendan Fay, and Fiore in the stage production Donogoo
Publicity photograph of Clarice Taylor
Publicity photograph of Helen Martin
Publicity photograph of Miriam Goldina
Collections in the Billy Rose Theatre Division
Billy Rose Theatre Division photograph file
56,219 items
Martha Swope photographs
50,952 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs
39,824 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs
24,860 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,048 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs
3,738 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,263 items
Willa Kim designs
1,293 items
R. H. Burnside collection
1,108 items
Circle in the Square papers
1,065 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division scrapbooks
474 items
Carol Rosegg photographs
361 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection clipping file
351 items
Collection of theatrical correspondence and ephemera
307 items
Patricia Zipprodt papers and designs
278 items
Cinelandia
239 items
New York Shakespeare Festival records
205 items
Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs
195 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection program file
162 items
Motion picture record
153 items
Jo Mielziner designs and technical drawings
121 items
Joan Marcus photographs
120 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
112 items
Avery Willard photographs
111 items
L. J. Binns caricatures
105 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection scripts
103 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
102 items
Mary Bryant papers
97 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division Lobby Cards
85 items
New York City theater marquees
80 items
Robinson Locke collection
64 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs
60 items
Boris Aronson papers and designs
59 items
American Theatre Wing scrapbooks
58 items
Richard Tucker photographs
56 items
Ruth Mitchell papers
47 items
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs
46 items
Frank Cambria and Sophie T. Cambria collection of Vincente Minnelli costume designs
46 items
Richard Rodgers papers
43 items
Robert A. Wilson slides
42 items
Magic scrapbooks and posters
42 items
Brooke Hayward papers
39 items
Ken Dewey Collection
39 items
Richard Nelson papers and designs
36 items
Alexandra Exter design photographs
34 items
Reza Abdoh collection of papers
33 items
C. A. Muller actors portraits
32 items
Robert Benney research materials
32 items
Gypsy Rose Lee papers
31 items
Dr. Saram R. Ellison scrapbooks
29 items
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer papers and designs
28 items
Donald Angus collection of Carl Van Vechten postcards and photographs, circa 1890s-1959
27 items
Ping Chong Archive
26 items
Caffe Cino posters
26 items
Jumbo costume designs
26 items
Lucille Lortel papers
24 items
Stead Collection
22 items
Lillian Gish papers
22 items
Greenwich Village Follies designs
22 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division cabinet file
21 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection Iconography file
21 items
Window cards
20 items
Edward Kleban papers
20 items
Photographs of actors who played Hamlet, 1983
18 items
Philippe Halsman theatrical photographs, 1947-1969
17 items
Isaiah Sheffer Papers
17 items
Leland Hayward papers
16 items
Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for the ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table
15 items
George E. Joseph photographs
15 items
Jo Mielziner papers
14 items
James Gossage photographs
14 items
Arthur Weyhe toy theatre collection
13 items
Katharine Hepburn papers
13 items
Mary Rodgers Guettel collection of set and costume designs,1936-1965
13 items
Theatre for Walter Hartwig Esq. Ogunquit, ME. - Ogunquit Playhouse.
13 items
Teatro al día
13 items
Tharon Musser designs and papers
12 items
Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder papers
12 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division book file
11 items
Camp Shows Publicity Records
11 items
Empresario internacional
11 items
Robert Baral papers
10 items
Max Eastman papers
10 items
Houdiniana
10 items
Luther Adler papers
10 items
Pastel portraits from the romantic drama
10 items
Anita Arden scrapbooks, 1920-1996
9 items
Cheryl Crawford papers
9 items
Circle Repertory Company records
9 items
David Belasco papers
9 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division periodicals file
8 items
USO Camp Shows designs and drawings
8 items
Theatre arts
7 items
Booth-Grossman family papers
7 items
Harold Prince papers
7 items
Donald Oenslager papers and designs
7 items
Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams
7 items
Minstrel show posters, broadsides, and photograph
7 items
Pictures Bre-Brok
6 items
The Play pictorial
6 items
Sophie Tucker scrapbooks
6 items
Sothern and Marlowe collection
6 items
Elaine Stritch papers
6 items
Margaret Barker papers
6 items
Margaret E. Lynn Army Music and Theatre Collection
6 items
Paul Gilmore collection of clippings
6 items
A collection of photographs of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Abbott and their home at Omaha, Nebraska
6 items
Comden and Green papers
5 items
Abe Burrows papers
5 items
Paddy Chayefsky papers
5 items
Peter Wexler photographs and designs
5 items
Posters: The Hanlon-Lees
4 items
The Theatre
4 items
Souvenir collection of costume designs
4 items
Robert Boucher papers
4 items
Franne Lee papers and designs
4 items
John Golden papers
4 items
Sy Friedman Photographs
4 items
Clifford Odets papers
4 items
Howard Bay designs and technical drawings
4 items
Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof papers
4 items
Peter Stone papers
4 items
Martinka & Co.
4 items
The secrets of stage conjuring
4 items
Au cirque
3 items
Townsend Walsh scrapbook collection
3 items
Hippodrome visual materials, [1905-1919]
3 items
E. Y. (Yip) Harburg papers
3 items
Studio One production files
3 items
Wizard of Oz costume designs and illustrations
3 items
Ruth Clark papers
3 items
Bert Bertram scrapbooks
3 items
Willa Kim collection of scripts
3 items
Olive Reeves-Smith Papers
3 items
Sardi's (Restaurant) caricatures
3 items
Paramount Studios Motion Picture Stills Scrapbooks, 1927-1947
3 items
Tony Straiges designs
3 items
Otto Harbach Papers
3 items
Chamberlain and Lyman Brown papers
3 items
Washington Square Players designs, posters and scripts
3 items
Westchester Playhouse negatives
3 items
Equity Library Theatre records
3 items
The secrets of conjuring and magic
3 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection originals file
2 items
David Garrick manuscript materials and ephemera, 1730-1900 : portfolio
2 items
Designs for The garden of paradise, 1914
2 items
Leah: the forsaken: A play in five acts
2 items
Salle de spectacle de Bordeaux, par M. Louis
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
Madam Modjeska scrapbooks,1877-1898
2 items
Dorothy Kilgallen papers and scrapbooks
2 items
Gene Frankel papers
2 items
Actor's Workshop and Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center records
2 items
Martin Worman papers
2 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division color transparencies and slides
2 items
Leon Bakst designs
2 items
Theatre world
2 items
Aline MacMahon papers
2 items
Joseph Buloff papers
2 items
L'électricité au théatre
2 items
The Big Show set designs by Mark Lawson and Nash
2 items
Annual benefit
2 items
Flo Ziegfeld-Billie Burke papers, 1907-1984
2 items
Hallie Flanagan papers
2 items
Playwrights' Company records
2 items
Costume designs by Adrian
2 items
Harry Hershfield collection
2 items
Harry K. Morton family scrapbooks and memorabilia
2 items
Nat Karson designs
2 items
Ruth Morley papers
2 items
Living Theatre designs
2 items
Kiralfy Brothers production and biographical materials
2 items
Original creation for magicians hitherto kept up his sleeve
2 items
Quality magic
2 items
Breslaw's last legacy
2 items
Hellerism
2 items
John Van Druten papers
2 items
Richard Ward papers
2 items
Anna Held Museum papers, 1897-1987.
1 item
Texas Guinan scrapbook and clippings
1 item
Conjurers' monthly magazine
1 item
Le Nouvel art cinématographique
1 item
Scrapbook of clippings, telegrams and letters, 1906
1 item
The Exhibitor
1 item
Vicar of Wakefield; Virgin of the Sun; Vortigern; Way of the World; Wreck Ashore ephemera, 1758-1906 : portfolio
1 item
Arnold Auerbach papers
1 item
The Standard.
1 item
Paul Muni papers
1 item
Robert Patrick papers
1 item
Billy Rose papers
1 item
A. J. Antoon papers
1 item
Frank Wilstach papers on Sothern and Marlowe
1 item
Actors' directory & studio guide
1 item
Ellis Rabb papers
1 item
Eunice Stoddard papers
1 item
Jay Gorney papers
1 item
Costume designs for Ziegfeld midnight frolic
1 item
John Latouche papers
1 item
Courrier cinematographique
1 item
Illustrated catalogue of photographer's negatives
1 item
Cent ans de théâtre par la photographie : comédiens et comédiennes d'hier
1 item
Annals of the New York stage
1 item
Coriolanus costume designs
1 item
M-U-M
1 item
Michael Friedman papers
1 item
Anne Nichols papers, 1873-1965
1 item
Arthur Hopkins papers
1 item
French Institute in the United States gift of designs,1917-1947
1 item
Les jeux du cirque et la vie foraine
1 item
Marion Davies papers,1915-1928
1 item
Mary Ellis papers
1 item
Rosamond Gilder papers
1 item
The play-pictorial
1 item
Tony Pastor collection
1 item
United Scenic Artists exam designs
1 item
Anthony Imperato, Trini Alvarado and unidentified others in the stage production of Runaways
1 item
Fancy costumes: scrapbook, approximately 1920-1932
1 item
Four years in Europe: the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth in the Old World
1 item
Gag book
1 item
Gregory Hines as Scrooge in the stage production Comin' Uptown.
1 item
Little Johnny Jones pamphlet
1 item
Romeo and Juliet
1 item
Romeo and Juliet
1 item
Souvenir album: scenes of the play Ben-Hur
1 item
The black crook: an original magical and spectacular drama in four acts
1 item
New York and regional theatrical souvenir programs,1903-1937
1 item
Peter Pan costume designs
1 item
America's prima-donna in a score of brilliant portraitures
1 item
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a nation.
1 item
Stuart Ostrow papers
1 item
Sol Jacobson papers
1 item
Kenneth Foy papers
1 item
Ball of the fine arts, 1916 : program
1 item
Reginald Marsh drawings
1 item
Joshua Logan correspondence and ephemera
1 item
Philip Burton papers [unprocessed]
1 item
Zero and Kate Mostel papers
1 item
New York Street Theater Caravan records
1 item
Joan McCracken ephemera
1 item
Rachel Crothers papers
1 item
Edward Harrigan papers
1 item
Edith Storey photographs, circa 1900s-1920s
1 item
Lee Simonson Photographs
1 item
Black nativity files
1 item
Ira Aldridge correspondence and programs, 1833 and 1848
1 item
Living Theatre records
1 item
Bubbling brown sugar (Revue: Mitchell) : program, 1977
1 item
George C. Wolfe papers
1 item
Ann Hould-Ward designs
1 item
Lenox Hill Players and Ensemble Theatre records
1 item
Bertha Case papers
1 item
The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis
1 item
Wyman Pendleton papers
1 item
George Freedley papers
1 item
James McMullan poster designs
1 item
Gale's cabinet of knowledge
1 item
The whole art of legerdemain, or Hocus pocus in perfection
1 item
Carter the Great ephemera
1 item
My life of magic
1 item
Tricks
1 item
Breslaw's last legacy
1 item
The expositor; or many mysteries unravelled
1 item
Unterricht von der wunderbaren Magie und derselben medicinischem Gebrauch
1 item
Clarence and Elfrieda Derwent papers
1 item
The whole art of legerdemain
1 item
Breslaw's Last Legacy
1 item
The conjuror unmasked
1 item
Dell O'Dell : ephemera
1 item
Ken Harper papers
1 item
Dante (Magician)) : souvenir programs
1 item
Magic is fun
1 item
Our magic
1 item
The Society of American Magicians' collection in the New York Public Library
1 item
Magic
1 item
For magicians only
1 item
Ancient and modern magic
1 item
Modern magic
1 item
Herrmann the Magician
1 item
The unmasking of Robert-Houdin
1 item
The whole art of legerdemain
1 item
Arthur Bell papers
1 item