19,827 Actresses, Theater Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Giovanni in London or Plucking chickens before they are full feathered...

Print shows opera singer, actress, and theater producer Madame Vestris, also known as Lucia Elizabeth Mathews or Lucia Elizabetta Bartolozzi, dressed in breeches, seated between two lascivious young men in a ca... More

Louise Meyers. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

Mrs. Clara Walters. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War peri...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

Mrs. Fiske, "Love finds the way" / Zaida Ben Yusuf.

Photograph shows actress Minnie Madden Fiske, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front. Gift; Estate of Minnie Maddern Fiske; 1961.

Mrs. Fiske, "Love finds the way" / Zaida Ben Yusuf.

Photograph shows actress Minnie Madden Fiske, full-length portrait, seated, facing front. Gift; Estate of Minnie Maddern Fiske; 1961.

Hope Hampton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows silent film actress and producer, and later opera singer, Hope Hampton (1897-1982). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. For... More

Merely Mary Ann Garden Theatre, New York, every evening & Saturday mat...

Ethel Barrymore, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959). Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013. Neg. is broken. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the Ge... More

Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Mr. Lyn Harding

Photo shows English actress Phyllis Neilson Terry (1892-1977) with Welsh actor Lyn Harding (1867-1952). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. ... More

Winifred Bryson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American actress Winifred Bryson (1892-1987) (born Winifred Brison). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Edna Wallace Hopper - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows American stage and silent film actress Edna Wallace Hopper (1872-1959).(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Alleyne Pickard - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows Broadway actress Alleyne Pickard. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Edith Wynne Matthison, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Edith Wynne Matthison (1875-1955), an Anglo-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and classic drama. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Erotic photography - Kay Laurell

Photograph shows American actress Kay Laurell (1894-1927). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Wanda Hawley, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Wanda Hawley (1895-1963), an American actress of the silent film era. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Ge... More

Mrs. John Chas. Thomas - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows singer and child actress Ruby Rothnour who married baritone John Charles Thomas in 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Ocean liners: Elsie De Wolfe - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photo shows interior decorator and actress Elsie de Wolfe (1865?-1950)probably on board the French liner Lafayette which arrived in New York from Bordeaux, December 1915 (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013 a... More

Olive Thomas, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American silent film actress and model Olive Thomas (1894-1920). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George ... More

[Motion picture set: actors and actresses; Lillian Gish? 2nd from righ...

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

Mrs. Wilkins, Mrs. Aug. Belmont

Photograph shows English actress Eleanor Robson Belmont (1879-1979). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014).

Margaret Mower, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American actress Margaret Mower in bed. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from similar Bain negative: LC-B2-4832-2. ... More

Larrimore seated at piano - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph probably shows actress Francine Larrimore (1898-1975). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Co... More

Larrimore holding fan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph probably shows actress Francine Larrimore (1898-1975). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Co... More

Patsy Ruth Miller - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American film actress Patsy Ruth Miller (1904-1995). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Katherine Dunham in Tropical Revue (1943), at New York's Martin Beck T...

New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Library of Congress (venue) Public domain photograph - performance, burlesque, dance, cabaret, operetta, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mural at Amargos Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Scene from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, part of the Univer...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson and actress Helen Hayes founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 to protect and pr... More

Letter, Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron c...

Reproduction number: A11 (color slide; pages 1 and 4); A12 (color slide; pages 2 and 3) I do not wish to give [women] a first place, still less a second one--but the most complete freedom, to take their true pl... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Portrait of Miss K - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows half-length portrait of actress Florence Kahn, seated, looking front. On verso: A portrait of Miss Florence Kahn by Miss Ben-Yusuf reproduced Photo.Times Oct. 1900 frontispiece. FBJ label no. ... More

Public School No. 3, Hamilton Avenue between Ludlow & Morris Streets, ...

Significance: Public School Number Three (P.S. #3) on Hamilton Ave. in Yonkers is the earliest remaining school complex in the city. Constructed in five major portions that were designed by architects of local ... More

Mrs. Chas. Keen. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

[Charlotte Cushman, half-length vignetted portrait, facing right]

Photograph shows the American stage actor Charlotte Saunders Cushman, who was known as one of the greatest actresses of her day. Case: plain leather case with push button and dark red velvet pad with an urn emb... More

Geistinger, Head and Shoulders Portrait Cartes de visite

Photograph shows Austrian actress/singer Marie Geistinger, head-and-shoulders portrait, in costume, facing left. No. 1395. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Mrs. James Brown Potter, 1859-1936

American actress; full lgth., seated, facing left, in ornate dress & plumed hat. Photoprint copyrighted by B.J. Falk. No. 26. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Actor... More

Mrs. Fiske / Zaida Ben Yusuf. - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows actress Minnie Madden Fiske, three-quarter length portrait, wearing coat and hat, facing front. Gift; Estate of Minnie Maddern Fiske; 1961. Exhibited in: "The life and portrait photography of ... More

J.K. Hackett & Charlotte Walker, "The Crisis"

Photograph shows actor James Keteltas Hackett (1869-1926). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Flora Zabelle - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows Broadway actress Flora Zabelle Hitchcock (1880-1968) who married Raymond Hitchcock. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Mrs. Paul Cravath - Public domain image related to music prformance, p...

Photo shows actress and opera singer Agnes Huntington, wife of lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Mrs. Chas Hopkins as "Columbine"

Photograph shows Mrs. Charles Hopkins (1886-1960), an English actress whose maiden name was Violet Vivian. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Farrar as "Carmen", George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), an American soprano opera singer and film actress. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms ... More

Ina Claire, 1892-, George Grantham Bain Collection

Head and shoulders, facing left. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf; Ph. Ind. Sources che... More

Marcia Van Dresser, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Marcia Van Dresser (1877-1937), an American operatic soprano, recitalist and actress, wearing an American flag and posed beside another American flag. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Tit... More

Marion Davies, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Marion Davies (1897-1961) in front of an American flag. (Source: Flickr Commons, May 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

Mrs. Earl Carroll, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Marcelle Hontabat (1897-1936) who was the wife of theater producer and composer Carl Carroll (1893-1948). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain New... More

Actress and model Audrey Munson posing in draped cloth Oscar H. Sholin...

Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Marie Dressler - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows stage and film actress Marie Dressler (1868-1934) at the Russian Bazaar, held at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, December 4-6, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Marie Dress... More

Symona Ferner Boniface, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American film actress Symona Farner Boniface (1894-1950). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Georg... More

Rock & White - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows William "Billy" Rock (1872-1922), a dancer and singer and actress and singer Frances White (1896-1969) in a dressing room. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Mary Alden, Jane & Kath. Lee - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows actresses Mary Maguire Alden (1883-1946), Jane Lee (1912-1957) and her sister Katherine Lee (1909-1968) appearing in a tableaux vivant at the Hotel des Artistes, New York City for a benefit for... More

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920 - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows actress Helene Chadwick (1897-1940). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Li... More

Miller, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Marilyn Miller (Mary Ellen Reynolds) (1898-1936) who was a Broadway actress, singer and dancer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the n... More

Le Gallienne, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899-1991). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (L... More

Priscilla Dean, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American silent film actress Priscilla Dean (1896-1987). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham... More

Nita Naldi, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Nita Naldi (1894-1961) who was born Mary Nonna Dooley. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gr... More

The Regent Showcase theater, an art deco former movie house on La Brea...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the no... More

Scene from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, part of the Univer...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson and actress Helen Hayes founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 to protect and pr... More

Scene from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, part of the Univer...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson and actress Helen Hayes founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 to protect and pr... More

Charles Frohman's latest production, the new play Zaza adapted by Davi...

Caption: Mrs. Leslie Carter; "I've been dining with swells." Created by "The Metropolitan Print., 222 to 232 W. 26th St., New York." Same image with different coloration, text, and caption (purporting to be act... More

Hachimantarō Yoshiie Abe Sadatō : Sadatō Tsuma Sodehagi.

Ukiyo-e triptych showing night scene lit by a lantern from a Kabuki play. Left section: Actor Hachiman Tarō Yoshiie, standing holding a parasol, with an unidentified actor dressed as a lion. Center section: Act... More

Portrait of Miss K - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows half-length portrait of actress Florence Kahn, seated, looking front. On verso: A portrait of Miss Florence Kahn by Miss Ben-Yusuf reproduced Photo.Times Oct. 1900 frontispiece. FBJ label no. ... More

Public School No. 3, Hamilton Avenue between Ludlow & Morris Streets, ...

Significance: Public School Number Three (P.S. #3) on Hamilton Ave. in Yonkers is the earliest remaining school complex in the city. Constructed in five major portions that were designed by architects of local ... More

Public School No. 3, Hamilton Avenue between Ludlow & Morris Streets, ...

Significance: Public School Number Three (P.S. #3) on Hamilton Ave. in Yonkers is the earliest remaining school complex in the city. Constructed in five major portions that were designed by architects of local ... More

Miss Combs, Mathew Brady Photograph, 1850s.

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

Mrs. Eldridge. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

[The modern argonauts with their golden "fleece"]

A crew of "modern argonauts" sails on a small, overcrowded ancient Greek vessel, sitting on bags of money. The sailors include: English writer Matthew Arnold; Anglican clergyman Canon Frederick William Farrar... More

Raft, Lake Linderman. Yukon Territory

Photograph shows the actress Esther Lyons inserted into a scene of a raft with photographer and author Veazie Wilson and a companion on Lake Lindeman, British Columbia. Although Lyons wrote a series of articles... More

Fanny Davenport, 1850-1898. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Half lgth., facing left. Photoprint copyrighted by Faber. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Actresses; Shelf. Davenport, Fanny, 1850-1898 [actress]. ... More

Mrs. W.E. Corey, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows stage actress Mabelle Gilman Corey (1882?-1966) who was the second wife of William Ellis Corey, president of U.S. Steel. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Forms part of: George Grantham B... More

Hope Hampton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows silent film actress and producer, and later opera singer, Hope Hampton (1897-1982) holding stuffed rabbit toy. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News S... More

Pauline Frederick, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Pauline Frederick (1883-1938). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: Geor... More

Hope Hampton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows silent film actress and producer, and later opera singer, Hope Hampton (1897-1982). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. For... More

Georgie Caine in "Adele" - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows American stage and film actress Georgia Caine (1876-1964). (Source: Flickr Commons project and Wikipedia, 2009) Caine appeared in Adele in 1913 and 1914. (Source: Internet Broadway Database, 2009)

Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines as presented 200 nights at Garrick ...

Adapted from copyrighted photo by Burr McIntosh, New York. Caption: Elizabeth Kennedy as Mme. Trentoni. Created and "copyright 1902 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 10027. Forms part o... More

Mrs. Claudia C. Wheeler - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Claudia Carlstedt Wheeler, an actress in comic operas. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham B... More

Elizabeth Valentine, George Grantham Bain Collection

Actress and suffragist Elizabeth Hacker Valentine Louden (b. 1877) in Brooklyn, and married in 1911 to Thomas Louden. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on ... More

Pauline Chase - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows American actress Pauline Chase (1885-1962). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Olga Nethersole - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows English actress and stage producer Olga Isabella Nethersole, (1869/1870-1951). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Mme. Lydia Yavorska - Public domain photograph

Photo shows Madame Lydia Yavorska (1869?-1921), a Russian actress and theatrical manager. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Hope Hampton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows silent film actress and producer, and later opera singer, Hope Hampton (1897-1982) with a dog. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the ne... More

Edith Wynne Matthison - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Edith Wynne Matthison (1875-1955), an Anglo-American actress who specialized in Shakespearean and classic drama. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Earl Carroll & wife - Public domain dedication image

Photograph shows actress Marcelle Hontabat (1897-1936) with her husband, theater producer and composer Carl Carroll (1893-1948). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Adele Rowland, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American actress Adele Rowland (1883-1971). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collect... More

Edna Hopper, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Edna Wallace Hopper (1872-1959) selling tickets at Allied Bazaar Ticket Day in New York City, June 1, 1916.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain Ne... More

Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows actress Helen Roche (Bonnie Glass) who married artist Ben Ali Haggin in June 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Edna May (Lewisohn) selling Bazaar tickets

Photograph shows Broadway actress Edna May (1848-1949) selling tickets at Allied Bazaar Ticket Day in New York City, June 1, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014 and New York Times, June 2, 1916)

Minnie Dupree, Jane Peterson - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photograph shows actress Minnie Dupree (1873-1947) in nurse's uniform supervising others in preparing surgical dressings as part of the Stage Women's War Relief project. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

D.C. Washington. World War I. View of central steps of Capitol, where ...

Includes at center: Marie Dressler (hand up near hair), Charlie Chaplin, and actress Mary Pickford in large hat. No. 61. Another print filed under: U.S. GEOG FILE - Washington, D.C. Social Life & Customs. This ... More

Fay Compton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Fay Compton (1894-1978) also known as Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negativ... More

Yvette Guilbert - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows French cabaret singer and actress Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Lois Wilson - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows American film actress Lois Wilson (1894-1988). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Scene from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, part of the Univer...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson and actress Helen Hayes founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 to protect and pr... More

Anna E. Dickinson Papers: Miscellany, 1863-1951; Financial papers; Rec...

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Jackie and Delia Coy, Chicago, Illinois; Walter Lowe, Chicago, Illinoi...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-4, 8-9 Jackie Coy (light shirt) and Delia Coy, actress; 5-7, Delia ... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More