19th Century Theatre History

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Provides access to over 275000 images digitized from the library collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, etc.

Comprises 573 items, mostly black-and-white photographic prints of 111 identified actors, actresses, and other performing artists

over 15,000 images of theatrical production are now freely accessible online through the Museum’s Collections Portal

Cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of 19th Century American and British actors and actresses.

This site "illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920." Includes a biographical chronology of escape artist and magician Harry Houdini, theater playbills and programs, sound and video clips, and Yiddish and English-language playscripts.

consists of 610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s. Many of these actors and actresses were little

Online access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services

ARTstor is a repository of images of art, architecture, and design. It includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching. ARTstor is supplemented by additional content, including thousands of licensed images (primarily art and architecture) ; additional supplemental images include locally-produced NYU collections: United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Photographs Collection - Part I: Negatives and the Tamiment/Wagner Poster and Broadside Collection.

Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures

Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library's American Memory collections.

Digital Theatre Plus offers full-length filmed stage performances of classic and modern plays, along with interviews and workshops with playwrights, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and others involved in the playmaking process.