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Toyonobu Ishikawa - Onoe kikugorō [to] nakamura kiyosaburō

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Onoe kikugorō [to] nakamura kiyosaburō

Print shows actors Onoe Kikugorō and Nakamura Kiyosaburō, wearing geta, portraying street musicians. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. A... More

Kiyohiro Torii - Ichikawa danjūrō no sukeroku

Kiyohiro Torii - Ichikawa danjūrō no sukeroku

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Nakamura matsue no kyōmachi no oman to sawamura tanosuke no tsunewakamaru

Nakamura matsue no kyōmachi no oman to sawamura tanosuke no tsunewakam...

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fumi o kaku onoe tamizō, Shunsh Katsukawa

Fumi o kaku onoe tamizō, Shunsh Katsukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one of a set of Hosoban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Nakamura tomijurō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Nakamura tomijurō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Nakamura Tomijurō portraying a woman performing a Noh dance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one of a se... More

Godaime ichikawa danjūrō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Godaime ichikawa danjūrō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with large hat and carrying a paper lantern. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo ... More

Nidaime sawamura yodogorō (no kawatsura hōgen to) bandō zenji (no oni sadobō)

Nidaime sawamura yodogorō (no kawatsura hōgen to) bandō zenji (no oni ...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms p... More

Sandaime ichikawa yaozō - Public domain portrait print

Sandaime ichikawa yaozō - Public domain portrait print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Yaozō III, bust portrait, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. ... More

Shigenoi kowakare, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Shigenoi kowakare, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print showing a woman holding a tray of rice cakes?, standing over a man sitting on the floor next to a gameboard. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

Shichidaime ichikawa danjūrō - Public domain portrait painting

Shichidaime ichikawa danjūrō - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VII, full-length portrait, standing, facing right.

Fujimusume no harukoma, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Fujimusume no harukoma, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows an actor, possibly wearing a mask, in the role of a maiden with a hobby horse hand puppet. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-200... More

Nakamura shikan no hyakusho yasaku - Ukiyo e print

Nakamura shikan no hyakusho yasaku - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Nakamura Shikan portraying Yasaku, a farmer holding a rifle outside farm buildings. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-... More

E. Lamb. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

E. Lamb. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Lamb. Actor. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

[Frank S. Chanfrau, actor, full-length portrait in costume, facing front]

[Frank S. Chanfrau, actor, full-length portrait in costume, facing fro...

Written on mount: Chanfrau. Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Possart, portrait, three quarter length portrait

Possart, portrait, three quarter length portrait

Photograph shows German actor Ernst von Possart, in costume, three-quarter length portrait, facing right. No. 1583. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Jefferson, Joe (Actor), Glass negative portrait, 1870s

Jefferson, Joe (Actor), Glass negative portrait, 1870s

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, "let us be conjunct"]

[Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, "let us be conjunct"]

Photo copyrighted by J. Gurney. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Two kinds of fool Americans / F.M. Hutchins.

Two kinds of fool Americans / F.M. Hutchins.

Print shows Puck standing between two views of Americans depicted on large sheets of paper; on the left are "The Jingoes" identified as "Reid, Frye, Hoar, [and] Lodge" among others, Reid carries a flag that sta... More

Backs plan for Federal Department of Art, Science, and Literature. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Declaring that no form of subsidy would bring more immediate cultural returns, Blanche Yurka, blonde stage star, today testified before the House Committee on Patents in behalf of the proposed Federal Department of sciences, Art, and Literature. Miss Yurka was one of a group of stage starts, musicians and writers who will come before the committee this week. With Miss Yurka is Frank Gilmore, Director of the Associated Artists and Actors of America

Backs plan for Federal Department of Art, Science, and Literature. Was...

A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barney Gilmore in the great comedy drama, Kidnapped in New York by Howard Hall.

Barney Gilmore in the great comedy drama, Kidnapped in New York by How...

D7709 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Scene - 3rd Act, The kidnappers den; Dooley and his friend the actor make a rough house. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cinci... More

Actors parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Actors parade - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tour of Mr. Charles B. Hanford - Public domain portrait print

Tour of Mr. Charles B. Hanford - Public domain portrait print

G xxc 3464 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Mr. Charles B. Harford as Petruchio. Created and "copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 6304. Forms part of: Thea... More

As to the many theatrical failures, business will pick up when-- / Ehrhart.

As to the many theatrical failures, business will pick up when-- / Ehr...

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with, at center, the construction of mannequin models as stand-ins for actors, surrounded by scenes of price gouging, poorly attended performances, the use of wooden actors... More

J.J. Coleman presents "that odd fellow" Mr. Harry Beresford in Our new man by Chas. T. Vincent

J.J. Coleman presents "that odd fellow" Mr. Harry Beresford in Our new...

Caption: I may suggest the Wild West, but my dearest enemy could not accuse me of being woolly. Created and "copyright 1904 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 7947. Fo... More

J.J. Coleman presents "that odd fellow" Mr. Harry Beresford in Our new man by Chas. T. Vincent

J.J. Coleman presents "that odd fellow" Mr. Harry Beresford in Our new...

Caption: Strange so few varieties of cabbage and so many brands of cigars. Created and "copyright 1904 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 7946. Forms part of: Theatric... More

Sidney R. Ellis presents golden voiced singer, Al. H. Wilson in his new play of picturesque Switzerland, Metz in the Alps new songs and yodels.

Sidney R. Ellis presents golden voiced singer, Al. H. Wilson in his ne...

Caption: The lullaby yodel. Created and "copyright 1906 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 9978. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Actors Benefit [for Crippled Children], Lew Dockstader as Roosevelt

Actors Benefit [for Crippled Children], Lew Dockstader as Roosevelt

A group of men standing on top of a baseball field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

J.S. Murphy, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

J.S. Murphy, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Created by "The Courier Lith. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." Newspaper clipping encased in mylar. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The moving picture cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the story, and what he really did.

The moving picture cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the st...

Motion picture poster for "The moving picture cowboy" shows Tom Mix being bucked off a horse and an inset showing Mix with posssibly the director and fellow actor, and photographer in the background. Color lit... More

Harry Fox & McGraw - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Harry Fox & McGraw - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows actor and comedian Harry Fox (1882-1959) with baseball player John Joseph McGraw (1873-1934). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Burr McIntosh - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Burr McIntosh - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph probably shows William Burr McIntosh (1862-1942) who was a movie studio owner, silent film actor, photographer and a pioneer in the early film and radio business. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Lou Tellegen & Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

Lou Tellegen & Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) with her husband, actor and screenwriter Lou Tellegen (1881-1934). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by ... More

Lou Tellegen & Farrar - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lou Tellegen & Farrar - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) with her husband, actor and screenwriter Lou Tellegen (1881-1934). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Geraldine Farrar, an Americ... More

Rudolph De Cordova & wife - A man and a woman sitting at a table

Rudolph De Cordova & wife - A man and a woman sitting at a table

Photograph shows screenwriter and actor Rudolph de Cordova (1860-1941) with his wife Alicia Ramsey (born Alice Joanna Royston) (1864-1933). Ramsey was also a writer and playwright. (Source: Flickr commons project, 2014)

Sir H.B. Tree & Elsa MacKay - Public domain portrait photograph

Sir H.B. Tree & Elsa MacKay - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852-1917), an English actor and theater manager with actress Elsie Mackay who was to perform in Tree's production of Henry VIII in 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons proj... More

Farrar & Lou Tellegen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Farrar & Lou Tellegen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) with her husband, actor and screenwriter Lou Tellegen (1881-1934). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by ... More

Charlie Chaplin and Sousa - movie film screenshot

Charlie Chaplin and Sousa - movie film screenshot

Public domain photograph of an actor, movie film scene, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Byron, George Grantham Bain Collection

Byron, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actor Arthur Byron (1872-1943) with his family including his wife, Kathryn Keys Byron, older daughter Kate Byron, younger daugher Eileen Byron and son Arthur "Buddy" Byron Jr., on a boat. (Sour... More

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building. Actors at Electric Institute I

Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. Building....

Public domain photograph of commerce and advertising, 1920s-1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shakespearean players. Costumed man at piano III

Shakespearean players. Costumed man at piano III

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wash. D.C. Helping thespians. Hallie Flannagan, in charge of the Dramatic Department of the WPA, is working out a nation-wide campaign to help unemployed actors and actresses. Her department will share $27,000,000 allocated by Harry Hopkins for artists, actors, writers and musicians. She is from New York. 10/8/35

Wash. D.C. Helping thespians. Hallie Flannagan, in charge of the Drama...

A group of people sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Movie star before senate committee. Washington, D.C., April 3. The S.R.O. sign was hung out today at the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee Hearing as Robert Montgomery, movie star, appeared to express his opposition to a bill designed to prohibit "Block booking" and "Blind selling" two trade practices which curb the discretion that a movie house owner has in selecting pictures to be shown in his community. Speaking as a former President of the Screen Actors Guild, Montgomery told the Committee that the Guild and their lawyers have come to the very definite conclusion that if the bill should become a law it would cut in half the production schedules of the Motion Picture Industry. 4-3- 39

Movie star before senate committee. Washington, D.C., April 3. The S.R...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Time of Your Life. American Theatre Guild production, 1939-1940 with Eddie Dowling, Julie Haydon, Gene Kelly, and Charles de Sheim

Time of Your Life. American Theatre Guild production, 1939-1940 with E...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Buckney, a childhood friend of singing legend Elvis Presley, enjoys a barbecue sandwich at Johnnie's Drive-in restaurant, a frequent hangout of Presley's in Tupelo, Mississippi

Charles Buckney, a childhood friend of singing legend Elvis Presley, e...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor in the 1960s and '70s. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059).... More

[Actors in the roles of a grandmother and another woman in the Peking Opera]

[Actors in the roles of a grandmother and another woman in the Peking ...

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Theatre Marquee, Fargo, North Dakota

Theatre Marquee, Fargo, North Dakota

On Monday, March 15, 1926, the Fargo Theatre opened to the public. The opening was big news, and The Forum ran a 12-page supplement detailing the elegant structure. The entertainment bill that first day feature... More

Moss-draped squares and elegant southern mansions are tourist attrations in refined Savannah, Georgia, but so is Leopold's Ice Cream Shop, where lines of those waiting to taste the parlor's confections often stretch far down the block

Moss-draped squares and elegant southern mansions are tourist attratio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1919, Leopold's is owned by movie producer, director, and actor Stratton Leopold. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography,... More

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. The fellow in the fedora, introduced to the audience only as "Johnny," is Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, himself an accomplished guitarist

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Flight (38 Photographs) - Public domain, Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939

Flight (38 Photographs) - Public domain, Federal Theatre Project 1935-...

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Production Records-Photographic Negatives File. The Photographic Negatives File is a collection of approximately 9,000 negatives, mainly from the New York, NY units, document... More

It Can't Happen Here (157 Photographs)

It Can't Happen Here (157 Photographs)

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Production Records-Photographic Negatives File. The Photographic Negatives File is a collection of approximately 9,000 negatives, mainly from the New York, NY units, document... More

Muddy Waters, Jr., Chicago; Delia Coy and Douglas Mann, actors, Chicago, Illinois

Muddy Waters, Jr., Chicago; Delia Coy and Douglas Mann, actors, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, Muddy Waters, Jr., 4333 S. Berkley, Chicago; 3-15, Muddy Waters,... More

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee,

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More

Hakata kojorō kezori kuemon komatsuya sōshichi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Hakata kojorō kezori kuemon komatsuya sōshichi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Print shows three actors portraying a woman and two men on board a ship; one of the men holds a large ax. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (426a), center (426b), right (426c). Title and other descriptive inf... More

Iga goe norikake kappa - Public domain scenic drawing

Iga goe norikake kappa - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows several actors in a battle scene with one warrior defending himself against several attackers during an assault on a fortress, with bridge in the background. Title and other descriptive information ... More

Dedication on May 30, 1985 of the USO headquarters building as the "Bob Hope Building," in honor of comedian Bob Hope (light blue jacket), Washington, D.C.

Dedication on May 30, 1985 of the USO headquarters building as the "Bo...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Bert K. Miura, clothing designer / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Bert K. Miura, clothing designer / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print, where the surname was misnoted as "Namura." Correct spelling based on other photos of Mr. Miura by Adams. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-42. Gift; A... More

Ivanhoe - concert / theatrical poster, Movie Poster

Ivanhoe - concert / theatrical poster, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "Ivanhoe" shows actor King Baggot as Ivanhoe. Caption: The great "IMP" feature film. Produced by Herbert Brenon at Chepstow Castle. Three reels. Stamped on back: Nederlands Filmmuseum... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Nakamura karoku ichikawa yaozō

Utagawa Toyokuni - Nakamura karoku ichikawa yaozō

Print shows two actors, Nakamura Karoku and Ichikawa Yaozo, one sitting on the back of a giant toad. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. D... More

Piper's Opera House, B & Union Streets, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Piper's Opera House, B & Union Streets, Virginia City, Storey County, ...

Significance: Piper's Opera House is one of the birthplaces of American stage in the west. The first large Virginia City theatre was Topliffe's on C Street, built in 1862. Tom Maguire's D Street Theatre follow... More

[Mr. and Mrs. Bill Robinson ] - Public domain portrait print

[Mr. and Mrs. Bill Robinson ] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I C 7. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More

[Mr. and Mrs. Bill Robinson ] - Public domain  print

[Mr. and Mrs. Bill Robinson ] - Public domain print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I C 7. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More

Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta Yoshihira.

Saitō go Kunitake Tada no kurando Yukitsuna : Naruto no mae : Akugenta...

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I C 2. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More

Sandaime sawamura sojūrō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Sandaime sawamura sojūrō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Edwin Forrest, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to the left]

[Edwin Forrest, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to the ...

Actor. Copy of DAG no. 55, reversed and slightly enlarged. Scratched on face of plate: 48. In pencil on back of plate: 42. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype col... More

Sawamura sōjūrō no honda - Public domain portrait drawing

Sawamura sōjūrō no honda - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows the actor Sawamura Sōjūrō, full-length portrait, standing, front view with head turned to the right, holding sword, in the role of Honda. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

Sawamura sōjūrō no honda - Public domain  drawing

Sawamura sōjūrō no honda - Public domain drawing

Print shows the actor Sawamura Sōjūrō, full-length portrait, standing, front view with head turned to the right, holding sword, in the role of Honda. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

Akugenta yoshihira, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Akugenta yoshihira, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (L... More

Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagaw...

Print shows three actors portraying the roles of Tamashima Itto, possibly from the popular play known as Benten Kozō, Tenjuku Tokubei, perhaps the adventurer/magician, and Tsukimoto Inabanosuke. Title and other... More

Miss Mary Taylor & Mr. F.S. Chanfrau - in the new piece called "A glance at New York" / J.L.M. delt. ; J. Baillie Lith.

Miss Mary Taylor & Mr. F.S. Chanfrau - in the new piece called "A glan...

Print shows Miss Taylor and Mr. Chanfrau standing next to each other outside a building; he is wearing an apron, has his right arm on her shoulders, and is holding her left hand. She is gazing up at him.

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Print shows three actors in a line, the one in the middle is wearing oversized garments, which are being pulled to the right and left by the other two actors. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

Ich bin an actor, Yiddish-American song

Ich bin an actor, Yiddish-American song

From "Zubrochene Fiedele" (General)

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Significance: Montpelier is situated on land granted by patent in 1723 to Ambrose Madison and his brother-in-law Thomas Chew. The patent was divided in 1732 at the death of Ambrose. The Madison family progeny... More

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Significance: Montpelier is situated on land granted by patent in 1723 to Ambrose Madison and his brother-in-law Thomas Chew. The patent was divided in 1732 at the death of Ambrose. The Madison family progeny... More

Yondaime ichimura takenojō no hanauri - Ukiyo e print

Yondaime ichimura takenojō no hanauri - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Urushie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Leonard Grover to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, February 20, 1864  (Invitation to attend performances by Edwin Booth)
Nakamura shikan segawaki kunojō nakamura karoku

Nakamura shikan segawaki kunojō nakamura karoku

Print shows the actors Nakamura Shikan, Segawa Kikunojō, and Nakamura Karoku as samurai, one disguised(?) as a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speciali... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Attributed to: Enryosai Shigemitsu. Triptych matted in 3 sect... More

Clay Clement, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Clay Clement, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

"Odeon Theatre, Monday, Oct. 25." Created by "The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." Management, Jno. Henry Martin. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Clay Clement, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Clay Clement, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

"Odeon Theatre, Monday, Oct. 25." Created by "The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." Management, Jno. Henry Martin. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Chotto hitokuchi hauta no ateburi - Ukiyo e print

Chotto hitokuchi hauta no ateburi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several actors in various costume, posture, and roles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left... More

Sawamura sōjūrō no soga no jūrō to ichimura takenojō no soga no gorō

Sawamura sōjūrō no soga no jūrō to ichimura takenojō no soga no gorō

Two actors, Sawamura Sojurō I (1689-1756) in a kneeling position and Ichimura Takenojō (standing), dancing with a tsuzumi. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Narutonomae; taira no munemori kyō; akugenta yoshihira

Narutonomae; taira no munemori kyō; akugenta yoshihira

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left, in ornamental oval frame] / Gerard Honthorst pinxt ; George Vertue, Londini sculp.

[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing s...

Signed and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nakamura nakazō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Nakamura nakazō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms part of... More

Onoe matsusuke no odamakihime to ōtani hiroji no okabe no ro

Onoe matsusuke no odamakihime to ōtani hiroji no okabe no ro

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: R. Leicester Harmsworth collection. Forms part of: Japanese... More

Iwai hanshirō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Iwai hanshirō, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Iwai Hanshirō, full-length portrait, standing beneath umbrella, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: one... More

Segawa Kikunojō. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Segawa Kikunojō. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the actor Segawa Kikunojō III, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in the role of a geisha. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists ... More

Komekitte o motsu nakamura nakazō, Shunk Katsukawa

Komekitte o motsu nakamura nakazō, Shunk Katsukawa

Print shows the actor Nakamura Nakazō, full-length, standing on the shore, facing slightly left, holding a rice coupon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specia... More

Shodai arashi ryūzō (no  yakko ukiyo matabei to) sandaime ōtani hiroji (no yakko tosa no matabei)

Shodai arashi ryūzō (no yakko ukiyo matabei to) sandaime ōtani hiroji...

Print shows actors Arashi Ryuzo I and Otani Hiroji III. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern ... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ichikawa danzō dō danzaburō

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ichikawa danzō dō danzaburō

Print shows two actors, full-length portrait, one as a woman holding branches with blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: v... More

Sandanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Sandanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows a woman (possibly Okaru), a little man (possibly Moronô's servant Bannai), and another man (possibly Honzo or Kampei). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows actors in the roles of Moronō (Kira Yoshinaka) propositioning Lady Kaoyo, Enya's wife, and Wakasanosuke (a noble offended by Moronō's behavior). Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

[Kyōgen play with two characters]

[Kyōgen play with two characters]

Drawing shows an actor on the left with short sword and holding a fan, on the right is an actor wearing a hat and standing on a bundle with his arms spread, as though about to fly. Signature or inscription in ... More

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