Found 1073 collections related to Photographs

Collection consists of English author William Makepeace Thackeray’s preface (dated 1852 as published) to “Mr. Brown’s Letters to a young man about town; with The proser and other papers” (New York ; D. Appleton and Co., 1853), written in the hand of Eyre Crowe, Thackeray’s secretary during his visit to the U.S. in 1852-1853, with emendations; also, Thackeray’s signature on a card of introduction for S. Lawrence; facsimiles of Thackeray’s writings; illustrations of his works; and portraits of him, including a photographic image. less

Black and white and some color photographs, posters and prints mostly of New York City buildings and streets, including Battery Swimming Baths (Battery Park Baths), photograph by E.J. Lecocq (ca. 1900), 2 photographs of renderings of the New York Biscuit Company (ca. 1890 and 1898), 6 prints of the new Tribune Building (1873); streets depicted include Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Wall Street. Among the subjects are the New York harbor, several ships, the William Cullen Bryant memorial, and Trinity Church memorial to unknown Revolutionary War heroes, photograph by Frank E. Parshley (ca. 1900). There are also 2 prints of the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair (1864) and a house in New Utrecht, Long Island (ca. 1866), as well as a few images from other U.S. cities such as Denver and St. Paul. Portrait prints include those of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, William Nelson Cromwell, Francis L. Hawks, Robert E. Lee, and George Washington; posters include a series of newspaper advertisements one year after Pres. John F. Kennedy's assassination. less

Hannah R. Newton (1840-1905) ran an oyster house at 268 Sixth Avenue, corner of 17th Street, New York City, from approximately the late 1870s to the mid-1890s, as listed in City street directories. Her husband, Richard W. Newton (1834-1907), an oyster dealer, also farmed in Ronkonkoma, Long Island. The collection consists of a ledger recording accounts with suppliers of clams, oysters, meat and other provisions in Manhattan and on Long Island; customers' tabs for meals; and cash expenditures. Brief journal entries on the end fly-leaf note the weather, crops farmed, life events of neighbors, and news items, mostly at Ronkonkoma. The volume includes a name index with addresses. Also present are two undated albumen photographs mounted on boards, one showing the exterior of H. R. Newton's Oyster House, the other showing the front of an oyster supplier's store, each with two men standing in front. A loose letter from M. A. Metzner of Brooklyn to Richard Newton at Ronkonkoma dated November 6, 1894 asks Newton to look after some pasture land for him. less

Tamara Daykarhanova (1889-1980) was a Russian-born actress and acting teacher. She debuted with the Moscow Art Theatre (Moskovskiĭ khudozhestvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr) at age 18 and, following the Russian Revolution, went on to tour with the Chauve-Souris company (Teatr "Letuchai︠a︡ mysh´") throughout Europe. She settled in New York in 1923 where she founded the Tamara Daykarhanova School of the Stage. The Tamara Daykarhanova photographs date from 1897 to 1975 and document personal and professional activities throughout her life. Photographs include family portraits and informal family photographs in Russia, France, and the United States; headshots and production stills from her early career with Moscow Art Theatre and the Chauve-Souris company; and portraits of Russian and American actors contemporary to Daykarhanova. Some photographs are captioned in Russian with English translations. Also included is a calendar listing birthdays, anniversaries, and deaths of Daykarhanova's family members and friends. Some materials in this collection were previously cataloged under the classmarks MWEZ + n.c. 25,797 and 8-MWEZ + n.c. 25,034. less

En Garde Arts, Inc., was a New York-based theater company that specialized in "site specific" productions, staging both classics and new works in specially designated, nontraditional architectural or outdoor spaces. Founded in 1985 by former performance artist Anne Hamburger, En Garde Arts distinguished itself by setting plays in unusual public spaces such as warehouses, factories, street corners, piers, and parks. The 1989 production AT THE CHELSEA consisted of three one-act plays set at the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street, each staged in a different room at the hotel itself. In 1990 the troupe presented Mac Wellman's CROWBAR in the dilapidated Victory Theatre on 42nd Street, the first play produced there in over fifty years. In 1993 En Garde Arts staged Charles L. Mee's adaptation of Euripides' ORESTES at an abandoned railroad switching station at 59th Street and 12th Avenue. In 1995 the company staged Jonathan Larson's J.P. MORGAN SAVES THE NATION at the intersection of Wall Broad streets in the heart of Lower Manhattan's financial district. En Garde Arts disbanded at the conclusion of the 1998-1999 season. The En Garde Arts ephemera consists of clippings, photocopies, reviews, programs, fliers, production photographs, press releases, financial papers, and other documents pertaining to En Garde Arts. less

Georgette Cohan (1900-1988) was an American actor, and daughter of George M. Cohan and musical comedy performer Ethel Levey. Her photographs and memorabilia (1895-1978) include images of Cohan, her mother, her husband J. William Souther, other family members, colleagues, and her longtime romantic partner George W. Brown. The collection includes a program from the Broadway play Diplomacy (1928) and a report card, photographs, and programs from Cohan's time as a student at the Institution de Mmes. Morel de Fos in Paris in the early 1910s. The collection contains a small number of notes and cards to Cohan, some in French. There is an original design of a dress for Jane Cowl as Juliet, drawn by Rollo Peters; the drawing was given to Cohan by Peters. Material concerning Ethel Levey includes a flier for a 1922 vaudeville performance and certificates of membership for Catholic associations. There are clippings about George Cohan, primarily from the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1978. A certificate conferred on George Brown by "l'Ordre des Noctambules" is also present. less

Athol Fugard is a South African playwright. The Nancy T. Kearns collection of Athol Fugard materials dates from 1983 to 1996. Some of the items in the collection are copies of material that was originally created in the 1970s. The collection contains programs, production photographs, clippings about Fugard and his plays, and lectures that Kearns wrote on Fugard's The Road to Mecca. Many of the programs and clippings are for productions at 7 Stages theater in Atlanta, Georgia. The collection also contains three short letters from Fugard to Kearns regarding his travels in 1983 and 1984. Materials are in English, with the exception of a 1986 German program for Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. less

Adrienne Earle was an American actor who was active in the 1920s and 1930s. She performed ingénue roles with stock companies including the Clyde Gordinier Players and the Frawley-Karle Players. Her photographs date from 1923 to 1932 and mostly consist of publicity photographs of her colleagues, including performers such as Ninita Bristow, Rollo Dix, Alice Duffy, Herbert Duffy, S.O. Gordinier, Margaret Knight, and Gene Lane. There is also a picture of radio announcer Arch McDonald. Many of the photographs are inscribed to Earle. less

Roberto Aschentrupp Toledo studied Mexican cinema at Universidad Nacional Autonoma and has also written on the subject. He lives in mexico City. Approximately 77 color photos documenting traditional dances of Mexico. The photos were taken by Roberto Aschentrupp Toledo between 1988 and 1991. Depicted are Diablos, Judios, Machetes, Matlachines, Moros, Tecuantes, Tejorones, and Tlacololero dancers participating in Carnavals, Corpus Christi festivals, Dia de Muertos and Holy Week observances, fiestas, and parties in various Mexican States such as Guerrero, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas. The photos were exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, by the Dance Collection (now Jerome Robbins Dance Division) in 1993 and the poster is included in the collection. less

Parsons-Meares Ltd. is a New York City-based costume shop that builds costumes for professional theater, dance, and opera. The Parsons-Meares costume bibles includes sketches and renderings (primarily reprographic), color photographs, fitting and sourcing notes, and textile swatches for costumes designed for 19 theater, opera, and ballet productions from the 1990s through 2011, primarily in New York City. Most productions are represented by one bible; some productions have multiple bibles. less

Leona Stephens (born circa 1885) and her husband Len D. Hollister (1884-1936) were writers and actors who worked on the Broadway stage and in vaudeville in the early 20th century. Following Hollister's death, Stephens continued performing and publishing songs through the 1940s. The Leona Stephens papers date from 1878 to 1952 and contain photographs, programs, song lyrics, and sheet music that document the entirety of Stephens's career, as well as her vaudeville act with Hollister. In addition, the collection includes an 1878 program from Edwin Booth's performance in Richelieu at the Pittsburgh Opera House. less

Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) was an American literary and cultural critic, essayist and historian. He was one of the most influential of New York intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, and belonged to the circle of writers and thinkers associated with the Partisan Review. Kazin's best-known work of criticism was On Native Grounds (1942), his seminal study of American prose and fiction of the period 1890-1940, and is also wel-known for his three memoirs, A Walker in the City (1951), Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), and New York Jew (1978). In 1996 he was awarded the first Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism. As of 2014, the only other award winner was George Steiner. The archive contains typescripts of Kazin's essays, books, unpublished biographical sketches, and lectures; more than 75 personal and literary journals; 13 literary notebooks; personal, literary and financial correspondence; two commonplace notebooks; extensive subject and biography research files (including especially extensive files on Herman Melville, the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery, and African-American literature); examinations and reading lists for undergraduate courses taught by Kazin; research files on a large number of American literary figures; page proofs; photographs; correspondence from over 60 persons (excluding fan mail), including writers, critics, cultural notables, intimate friends, and family members; and correspondence from Kazin to over 250 recipients, including over 60 letters to Judith Dunford (Kazin's third wife), dating from 1977 to 1982. less

Olga Roller (1884-1968) was a singer and actor who performed in musicals and comic operas, including several by Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert. The Olga Roller papers document her career from 1908 to 1926. The collection contains production photographs from the Broadway show Eileen (1917), promotional photographs of Roller, a signed photograph of Charlotte Greenwood, programs from The Soul Kiss (circa 1911) and Madame Moselle (1914), a promotional postcard for Madame Moselle, clippings, three letters written by Harry Child of Henry W. Savage, Inc. regarding Roller, and one 1916 letter to Roller from W.H. Oviatt regarding the possibility of a role in a Herbert-Blossom production. Clippings are mounted on scrapbook pages. They date from 1908 to 1926 and concern productions such as The Merry Widow (circa 1908), Eileen, Madame Moselle, and Hearts of Erin (1917). less

Edna Sedgwick (1915-2002) was a dancer, vaudeville performer, and actress. She appeared on film in You're a Sweetheart (1937), Red Barry (1938), and Swing, Sister, Swing (1938), and on the Broadway stage in the revue Boys and Girls Together (1941). The Edna Sedgwick photographs date from the 1920s to the 1970s, and include studio portraits and photographs with and of fellow performers from throughout her career. Some photographs of other entertainers may include inscriptions. Business associates of Sedgwick's husbands Sam Maceo (a Galveston, Texas restaurant and night club owner) and Henry G. Plitt (president of ABC Television and chief executive of Plitt Theatres) are also depicted. less

S. Jay Kaufman (1886-1957) was a writer, director, and producer for the American stage in the first half of the 20th century. The S. Jay Kaufman photographs and ephemera date from 1917 to 1947 and contain autographed headshots of theatre and music performers as well as photographs of Italy and the Vatican. Many of the photographs in the collection depict European actress María Korda. The collection also holds souvenir tickets for the opening night of the Roxy Theatre in New York City; invitations to New York City theatrical premiers; and two letters with commendations of Kaufman's European relief work during World War I. less

Anthony Grabowski (born 1932), a New York City-based playwright, was active in the mid-20th century. The Anthony Grabowski papers date from 1962 to 1969 and document his work on two plays, With Ah! Bright Wings and The Warmth of Winter. In addition to annotated scripts of the plays, the collection contains production photographs, contracts, and a program for The Warmth in Winter; a journal entry discussing the development of With Ah! Bright Wings; and letters detailing reader reactions to drafts of both plays. less

Edward Hume was an American actor who performed on Broadway and in touring theatre companies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Edward Hume photographs and ephemera date from 1892 to 1909 and document Hume's performances in the midwestern United States at the turn of the 20th century. The collection consists of cabinet cards and photographic prints showing Hume individually and in group portraits with his companies; the cover of the New York Dramatic Mirror featuring Hume; and a copy of a theatre weekly magazine from Salt Lake City, Utah with several articles discussing Hume's local performances less

Nancy Douglass (née Hasenwinkle) was a stage and radio actor. She began her career in the 1930s acting under the stage name Nancy Haswin, before changing her stage name to Douglass in 1938. She was married to Lawrence Hurdle and also performed for a time as Nancy Hurdle. Her Broadway roles included parts in The Devil of Pei-Ling (1936), Out of the Frying Pan (1941), and Bloomer Girl (1944). She was an understudy in the Theatre Guild's touring production of Ah, Wilderness! (1935) and starred in the radio program Dangerous Road in 1938. In the 1960s and early 1970s she performed in touring productions of Forty Carats and in the Windmill Dinner Theater in Texas. The Nancy Douglass papers (1933-1971) contains programs, photographs, clippings, telegrams, letters, and other materials related to Douglass' career. The collection includes a scrapbook which documents her career from 1934 to 1941. less

Ewald Schindler (1891-1948) was a German-born actor, director, and producer of theatre and opera. After fleeing to Czechoslovakia and Italy during the rise of the Nazis, he immigrated to the United States in 1941, where he became director of the King-Smith Playhouse in Washington, D.C. and founded The Playhouse Studio, a school of drama, with Norwegian dancer Liljan Espenak. Additions to the Ewald Schindler papers date from 1899 to 1947 and contain letters, photographs, scrapbook pages, and personal ephemera that document Schindler's family and professional life. Scrapbook pages with clippings, photographs, and a program document Schindler's direction of The Green Cockatoo at the King-Smith Playhouse, dated 1942 to 1943. Correspondence is with Kurt Schindler, Liljan Espenak, and Mary Wigman, discussing family and professional issues. Photographs include individual portraits of the Schindler family as well as a cabinet card depicting Czech opera singer Emmy Destinn. Personal ephemera consists of a recitation book and Schindler's social security card. Correspondence and the recitation book are in German. less

Robert Taylor (1911-1969) was an American film and television actor, known for his roles in Camille, Bataan, and Waterloo Bridge. The Robert Taylor clippings and photographs date from 1935 to 1960, and consist of reviews of Taylor's performances, advertisements for his films, feature articles, and social updates. Photographs and captions for distribution on the press wire are also included. less

A. Robins (1886-1950) was a clown who performed in the United States and Europe from the 1900s until 1950. He was born Adolf Proper in Vienna, Austria. He took on the stage name A. Robins before coming to the United States in the early 1910s. In his early career, he performed as part of a duo, the Brothers Robins. He was known as the Banana Man for a trick he performed in which he pulled large numbers of bananas out of his pockets. Robins was known for making his own props. After his death, his act and stage name were adopted by Sam Levine. During the 1950s and 1960s, Levine appeared frequently on television as A. Robins or as the Banana Man. The A. Robins papers contain photographs, letters, and other papers dating from 1908 to 1950 documenting Robins' career, and a ledger that belonged to Sam Levine when he was performing as A. Robins. Photographs date from 1908 to about the 1940s and include promotional images of Robins in makeup, portraits of him out of costume, and portraits of unidentified individuals. One photograph is inscribed to Robins' niece, Phyllis Wollman. There are photographic postcards depicting the Brothers Robins, one of which has a note from Robins written on the back. The collection also includes a drawing of a clown signed "Krehan." Letters date from 1927 to 1948, and contain invitations to Robins to perform and thanks for his performances. The letters from 1928 concern Robins' work in England, where he was a popular performer. The collection also contains magazine articles about Robins, dating to 1950; certificates awarded to Robins for his charitable work; promotional brochures; piano-conductor scores; and a piece of writing about Robins' life and work, labeled "written by Harry Houdini for Robins." Sam Levine's ledger records his engagements, expenses, and income from 1951 to 1973. less

The Marion Paone collection of Russian theater and ballet photographs contains promotional images of actors, dancers, playwrights, and directors, dating from about the 1900s to the 1950s. Most of the images are printed on postcards, and are labeled with the actor's name or the production title in Russian. Many of the photographs are from the Moscow Art Theatre, including production photographs from plays such as The Living Corpse, The Power of Darkness, and Uncle Vanya. Actors depicted include Vasily Kachalov. Ballet photographs include images of Galina Ulanova and Swan Lake. less

Robert Allan ("Bob") Boucher was an American conductor and musical director. From approximately 1946 to 1960, he was employed as Musical Director and Master of Ceremonies at the Roxy Theatre in New York City, where he rehearsed and conducted stage shows, wrote original music, and provided narration and music consultation for productions. The Robert Boucher papers date from 1953 to 1962 and contain partial manuscript and published scores and parts, programs, photographs, clippings, scripts, and a resume that document Boucher's work at the Roxy Theatre and for television specials and pilots. Boucher's original compositions in the collection are for the television productions Music on Ice and Championship Jazz, while his conducting at the Roxy is represented by arrangements. Photographs depict Boucher and the Roxy orchestra performing, scenes from Roxy productions, and Boucher with music talent such as Louis Armstrong. Clippings, photographs, and programs also document the performances of Peggy Wallace Boucher, his wife, a rollerskater who was featured during Roxy stage shows. less

The David Backman collection of Czechoslovak film and theater photographs contains promotional images of actors dating primarily to the 1930s. Many of the images were printed on postcards. Some are labeled with the actor's name or the production title. Actors depicted include Adina Mandlová and Lída Baarová, among many others less

Collection of letters signed by Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), American writer, photographer and patron of the arts. Letters are chiefly to London publisher Grant Richards, 1923, regarding two of Van Vechten's works, Peter Whiffle and The Blind Bow-Boy. Other items to various recipients concern literary, social and business matters, including a letter thanking George Sylvester Viereck for sending a copy of his work My Flesh and Blood, and a note to Sawyer written on the back of a photograph of Alice B. Toklas, taken by Van Vechten. less

Stage, screen and television actor, Roland Young (1887-1953), was born in London and performed in England and the United States. One of his most notable films was Topper (1937). Young became a U.S. citizen in 1918; he died at home in his sleep in New York City in 1953. Roland Young's scrapbook and originals consist primarily of his original drawings and artwork, personal and professional photographs, scripts and poetry (several written by Young himself), a few pieces of correspondence, contracts, financial papers, and some personal ephemera, all documenting Young's life and acting career. There are some photographs of caricatures by Jean Negulesco. Stage and film productions included in the photographs are the film, The Great Lover (1949) with Bob Hope, the stage production, Perfect Pitch (Montclair Theatre, New Jersey, 1948) with Buddy Ebsen; Actors Cary Grant and Henry Daniell are in 2 candid photographs. less

Marion Davies (1897-1961) was an American stage and film actress. The Marion Davies papers date from 1915 to 1928 and document her early stage and film performances as well as her social activities with incoming correspondence, photographs, and clippings. Incoming correspondence is primarily fan mail, with several telegrams congratulating Davies on her performance in the 1923 film Little Old New York. Correspondence also discusses the efforts of Cosmopolitan Productions to promote Davies's work and stature as a celebrity. Prominent correspondents include philanthropist Vincent Astor, producer Lee Shubert, and journalist Roy L. McCardell. Photographs consist of casual shots of Davies along with autographed headshots of fellow actresses. Clippings include reviews of Davies's performances on the stage and screen, as well as news reports of her social life and promotional work with Cosmopolitan Productions. This collection was previously cataloged under the classmark 8-MWEZ n.c. 20,119. less

Kenneth Fox (born Kenneth Duvall Tooill, 1896-1979) was an actor who performed on Broadway and in stock theatre companies during the 1920s. The Kenneth Fox papers document Fox's career and his longtime interest in theatre with contracts, programs, and photographs. Contracts originate from Fox's work on Broadway and in regional stock theatre companies from 1922 to 1926. Contracts for single productions list Fox's role and the show title. Programs, dated 1951 to 1962, are from popular Broadway musicals and plays of the 1950s and 1960s, including The Threepenny Opera. Photographs in the collection consist of autographed portraits of stage actors, some of whom were Fox's contemporaries. Photographs date from 1878 to the late 1920s and include portraits of Zelda Sears, Edith Kingdon, Fiske O'Hara, and Lotte Crabtree. less

Robert Burns Gable was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania in 1918. A lifelong dance enthusiast, he studied tap dancing and while a student at art school, performed as a clown and traveled with the Cole Brothers Circus. He graduated from the Philadelphia Museum of Art School, was a veteran of World War II and an artist by profession. Gable later relocated to New York. Gable saw Nureyev perform in most of his roles throughout his career and met him on numerous occasions. His collection of photographs, reviews and clippings is considered one of the most comprehensive collections on Rudolf Nureyev in the world. Gable died at the age of 89 in 2008. Over 1,700 photographs (black and white and color), primarily of dance performances and rehearsals, but also many informal photos and portraits of ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, from his early U.S. performances in the 1960s, to an exhibition in Vienna in 1993, collected by Robert Burns Gable. Dance companies represented include the Royal Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, the Australian Ballet, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. There are also several window cards, movie posters and programs for some of Nureyev's screen appearances, including Romeo and Juliet (1966), I am a dancer (1972), Valentino (1977), and Exposed (1983). Numerous photos include Dame Margot Fonteyn with Nureyev, and there is also a color, autographed informal photo of her. less

The Federal Theatre Project was created in 1935 as a Works Progress Administration project to fund live theatre and other live performing arts performances. Its purpose was also to give employment to unemployed theatre artists; the project brought free or low-cost theatre (including children's theatre) to audiences nationwide. Hallie Flanagan was the Federal Theatre Project's director. The project ended in 1939 due to cancellation of funding by Congress. Original color costume designs, sketches, and scenic boards for some 42 Federal Theatre Project productions donated by the U.S. Veterans Administration. Productions include the musical revue Sing for your supper, 1939, with costume designs by Alexander Jones; The black crook, circa 1936, with costume designs by Sidney Carlyle and Frank Fisher; Pinocchio by Yasha Frank, adapted from Collodi, circa 1937, with some costume designs by Sidney Carlyle and Frederick Wilkinson; Ready! Aim! Fire!, 1937, by Gene Stone and Jack Robinson, with costume designs by Frederick Wilkinson; among other costume designers represented are Dianne Aerne, Kavelita and V. Nichols. There are also 31 scenic boards (30 of which have photographs attached) of drops, backdrops, roll curtains, and set pieces by Frederick Stover for the musical revue Two-a-day, 1938, as well as a small number of set design drawings, including The pastry baker by Lope de Vega, circa 1935-1939, drawing by Joseph Liss, and set designs by Nels Astner for William Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Also included is 1 costume sketch for Clay Dalton in the Festival of American dance, circa 1937. less