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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt for The Red Rose

Date: 1911
Description: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist's model who falls in ...
Photograph

Publicity Photograph of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1907
Description: Valeska Suratt's early fame was for her elaborate costumes, wasp waist, ample bosom and hips. She appeared in the 1906 musical The Belle of Mayfair ...
Postcard

Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival

Date: 1903
Description: The cast members Billie Burke, James Blakeley, and Maude Percival as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put M...
Postcard

Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley

Date: 1903
Description: Billie Burke, G.P. Huntley, and Norma Whalley as characters from The School Girl. Billie Burke was a hit when she sang "Put Me in My Little Canoe...
Postcard

Miss Billie Burke

Date: 1905
Description: Billie Burke wearing a lovely white dress and large hat decorated with roses in a nearly full length publicity postcard distributed in 1905 for her appeara...
Photograph

Irene Castle, in Watch Your Step

Date: 1914
Description: Full-length publicity portrait of Irene Castle in a tripping pose for Irving Berlin's 1914 Broadway musical Watch Your Step.
Photograph

Kitty Gordon and Two Dogs in Sunroom

Date: 1918
Description: Kitty Gordon and two dogs in a sunroom. The star of musical comedy, vaudeville, and silent films, Kitty Gordon, and two dogs, wolfhounds or deerhounds. ...
Photograph

Kitty Gordon and her Pekingese

Date: 1913
Description: Seated portrait of Kitty Gordon holding a Pekingese dog in her lap and wearing a black straw hat. It was used as publicity for her April 1913 vaudeville ap...
Photograph

Periwinkle Review

Date: 10 23 1953
Description: Four costumed actors rehearse for the "Periwinkle Review", an original showboat review sponsored by the Drama Department of the Woman's Club.
Poster

Poster for "The Tourists"

Date: 1906
Description: Color Lithograph. In a caption box at top is the banner "Sam. S. & Lee Schubert (inc) Offer the Merry Musical Comedy" followed in larger block letters by "...
Poster

Poster for "My Hometown Girl"

Date: 1915
Description: Color lithograph poster with portraits of John Hyams and Leila McIntyre with the caption "Perry J. Kelly offers John Hyams and Leila McIntyre." Bottom capt...
Poster

Poster for "A Modern Cinderella"

Date: 1901
Description: Color lithograph poster announcing “A Notable Production of the Last Word in Musical Comedy A Modern Cinderella/Book & Lyrics by Caspar Nathan/Music by Ham...
Poster

Poster for "A Modern Cinderella"

Date: 1901
Description: Color lithograph poster announcing “A Notable Production of the Last Word in Musical Comedy A Modern Cinderella”/”Book & Lyrics by Caspar Nathan”/”Music by...
Poster

Poster for "Rollicking Shannon"

Date: 1912
Description: Color lithograph poster for "Rollicking Shannon." Across the top the caption reads “John O’Donnell, The Gifted Actor and Tenor”/Management Al. McLean." The...
Photograph

Film Still from "The Clodhopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of a male actor in a stage musical surrounded by actresses in matching costumes.
Print

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 11 1947
Description: Program for the New York City Symphony performance of The Cradle Will Rock. Leonard Bernstein was the musical director and Howard Da Silva starred in and s...
Book or Pamphlet

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 1938
Description: Page five of the playbill for performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. The page credits Blitzstein, Orson Welles, and three of the cast...
Book or Pamphlet

The Cradle Will Rock

Date: 1938
Description: Page eleven of the playbill for the performances of The Cradle Will Rock at the Windsor Theatre. Page eleven includes more of the cast list and an advertis...
Photograph

Benefit Musicale at St. Francis House

Date: 03 19 1957
Description: Four women in ethnic costume and gowns pose behind a harp. Shown left to right are: Marjunice West, who sang songs of Norway and is shown in a dress which ...
Photograph

Sherman Terrace Children Present "The Sad Sullivan Show"

Date: 08 09 1960
Description: Children living at Sherman Terrace present "The Sad Sullivan Show" to their parents and friends at their outdoor theater to raise money for a new home for ...

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