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Baby Rose Marie

Date: 1929
Description: Baby Rose Marie in a ruffled dress in her trademark pose from the Vitaphone short Baby Rose Marie.
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Baby Rose Marie Singing

Date: 1928
Description: Baby Rose Marie is shown singing at an NBC radio microphone. This is seen in the National Union Radio Corporation publicity booklet "Radio Stars of Today."
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Rudy Vallee with baton

Date: 1929
Description: Rudy Vallee conducts musicians as a woman sings in "Glorifying the American Girl," a Paramount musical from 1929.
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Lina Cavalieri

Date: 1901
Description: The young Italian operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri in suggestive deshabille, her pearl decorated dress falling off her shoulders.
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Dorothy Jardon in "The Merry-Go-Round"

Date: 1908
Description: Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl...
Poster

Poster for "On Broadway"

Date: 1896
Description: Black and white lithograph poster. Caption at top reads “Maggie Cline" with image of Cline at a Broadway intersection crossing a trolley track while a poli...
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Louise Homer and Children

Date: 1915
Description: Original caption from a newspaper clipping: "Mme. Louise Homer, Famous Contralto, and her four children. Mme. Homer, famous American prima donna, is also o...
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Dorothy Lillian Solomon and Lillian Russell

Date: 1886
Description: Half-length portrait of actress and singer Lillian Russell with her young daughter Dorothy Lillian Solomon, who later performed under the name Dorothy Russ...
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Joseph Santley, Joseph Santley, Jr., and Ivy Sawyer

Date: 1919
Description: Original caption: "Here's the real boss of the Santley Family. Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer, stars of the 'Music Box Revue', may have to obey the orders ...
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Fred Stone and Family in Atlantic City

Date: 1928
Description: Original caption: "Fred Stone, America's Foremost Comedian and his happy family photographed recently on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. Left to Right: Car...
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Marguerite Sylva

Date: 03 20 1918
Description: Original caption: "Marguerite Sylva who was once so popular on the operatic stage is seldom heard now. She sang Carmen in Boston recently but New York has ...
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Robert Cain, Raymond Bloomer, and Lina Cavalieri scene still

Date: 1918
Description: In a scene still for the silent drama "A Woman of Impulse," Leonora, the opera singer known as "La Vecci" (played by Lina Cavalieri) sits in her backstage ...

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