dancers

Fanny Elssler music sheet cover

Print shows ballerina Fanny Elssler, full length portrait, facing front, as the character Sarah Campbell in the ballet "La Gypsy" where she danced the cracovienne (krakowiak). Inscribed in pencil across top: I... More

Hawaii album, p. 28, portraits of women and girls

Photographs show portraits of Hawaiian women and girls including Kamakaku or Doveeye (a hula dancer), Hopii, Nohea and others. In album: [Hawaii album], p. 28. Captions inscribed in pencil under some photograp... More

[Female Javanese dancer, full-length portrait, seated, in costume, Par...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 19th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Vernona Jarbeau, full-length portrait, standing, facing left]

32737aa U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by M.W. Morrison. No. 1. Public domain scan of dance performance poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unidentified dancer, lantern slide

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Turkish dance, Ella Lola - movie film screenshot

A young, dark-haired woman performs a period "Oriental" dance (commonly known as a belly dance) with some Turkish styling. She performs distinctive dance movements that include shoulder shimmies with pelvic mov... More

Mrs. Florence Fleming Noyes, Italy

Full lgth., jumping, left profile; in a scarf dance. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss F. Sackville West - Public domain portrait print

An old photo of a woman in a belly dance pose. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vernon Castle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows ballroom dancer Vernon Castle (1887-1918) in an airplane. Vernon Castle worked and taught with his wife Irene (Foote) Castle (1893-1969). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

[Corinne Griffith, Ziegfield performer]

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

[Shibell?] - Public domain portrait print

A woman in a dress and hat standing on the beach. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Myers - Public domain portrait print

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

Rasch - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows ballet dancers trained by choreographer and dancer Albertina Rasch (1891-1967). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

[Erika Morini] - Public domain print

A woman standing on a set of stairs holding a bunch of flowers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Erika Morini was an Austrian-American violi... More

Ruth St. Denis, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Siberia written by Bartley Campbell.

D11698 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: His life or mine! Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." Direction, W.J. Fielding. No. 4412. Forms part of: Th... More

Portrait photograph of Ansley, C.M.Bell Studio

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

High Caul Cap, figure 1 / D. A. Sigerist, fotografers, 2140 Third Aven...

Photograph shows men and women doing a circle dance at Monaghan Men's Irish Dancing Class. H61383 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographer's full name and birth date from U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992.

Edward S. Curtis - Apache dancers

H87157 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1924-06.

Baroness de Guestre - Public domain portrait painting

Photo shows Baroness Yele de Guestre. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, June 29, 1913)

Vivienne Sonia Segal - Public domain portrait print

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

Louise Jorgensen in Indian dress

Photograph shows dancer and teacher Louise Jorgensen (d. 1995) who lived in Oakland, California. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

[unidentified parlor with piano -- Rasch Studio]

Photograph shows a room in the dance studio of choreographer and dancer Albertina Rasch (1891-1967), which was located in the Chatworth Apartments, 344 West 72nd Street, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons p... More

Erotic Art: The dance: allegro - Public domain portrait print

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman wearing a hat shaped like a fish]

Photograph showing portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a fish-shaped object on her head and holding a fish-shaped object in her lap. J195421 U.S. Copyright Office.

Baroness Von Rottenthal - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows dancer Irmgard von Rottenthal at the Venetian pageant which was part of the fine arts ball arranged by the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, held at the Hotel Astor, New York City on February 20, 19... More

Marion Morgan dancer, lantern slide

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Anna Pavlova dancing, lantern slide

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Florence Walton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American dancer Florence Walton (1883-1981). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph - dance, dancer, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - per... More

Genthe collection - Isadora Duncan dancer

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G39-0958-0-002 (vd# 248)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dancer, dance, performing...

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Genthe collection - Anna Pavlova dancing

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. vd image reversed ID: LC-G432-1163-003 (vd# 16714); As I remember, facing p. 177

Mrs. Vernon Castle - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows ballroom dancer Irene (Foote) Castle (1893-1969) who taught and danced with her husband, Vernon Castle (1887-1918). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012

Genthe collection - Elizabeth Duncan dancers

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G39-1352-R-005 (vd# 586)

Elizabeth Duncan dancer, lantern slide

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Ballet: Hilda Beyer dancing, lantern slide

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Elizabeth Duncan dancer, lantern slide

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Isadora Duncan dancing, lantern slide

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Hospital at Bellevue. Bellevue, formerly owned by the dancer Isadora D...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Guerin. Group title: Military Hospitals. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 a... More

Stella Block dancing, lantern slide

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Stella Block dancing, lantern slide

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Erotic photography - Margaret Severn dancing

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Female Samoan dancers in the South Pacific]

J255883 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward A. Salisbury. No copyright renewal per LC Photoduplication Service.

Virginia Myers dancing - Public domain print

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Madam Lubouska - Public domain portrait photograph

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Ruth St. Denis dancing, lantern slide

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Photograph of Alexandra Danilova in Apollo, n.d. 1928?, no photographe...

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[Singers & dancers, New Bight, Cat Island, July 1935]

Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Singers & dancers, New Bite, Cat Is., July 1935." Forms part of: Lomax collection of p... More

[Singers & dancers, New Bight, Cat Island, July 1935]

Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Singers & dancers, New Bite, Cat Is., July 1935." Forms part of: Lomax collection of p... More

[Portrait of Wilbur McCormack, in Boxing Dance]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XLII I 28. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

Katherine Dunham in the ballet L'Ag'Ya, which premiered in 1938

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis (Copyright Notice) Public domain photograph - dance, dancer, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph ... More

Dancers Lauded for Universality

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[ Martha Graham in Lamentation, No. 14]

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[ Winter frontier, No. 2] - Martha Graham Collection

Photographer unknown. (General) Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a division of The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, www.marthagraham.org. (Copyright Notice)

Dancers entering hall. Marshalltown, Iowa

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Saturday night square dance run by Mr. and Mrs. Tucker in Clayville,...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, dancing, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of Cozy Cole, New York, N.Y.(?), ca. Sept. 1946]

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 079 (gottlieb assignment) 079 (assign... More

[Portrait of Lee Sherman, Radio City Music Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. J...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 291 (gottlieb assignment) 291 (assign... More

Contact Sheet: 0A-2A Gayle Cable Introducing Gourd Dance; 3A-4A Host D...

Group of slides: 1 Alan Jabbour Provides an Introduction at the Librar...

Hethu'shka Society concert. Neptune Plaza, Library of Congress, Washington DC. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

Montgomery Ballet performs "A New Ballet by Paul Gilliam" at the Davis...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Dancers Itzel Maya, left, and Eduardo Gutierrez, pause between perform...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. They are dressed as pre-Columbian Aztec dancers, some of the period performers featured by the city's Ollimpaxqui Ballet Folklorico c... More

Katherine Dunham in Tango - Public domain portrait photograph

Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (Copyright Notice)

Anna Pavlova, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova. Corresponding negative number: LC-G432-1163-011. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 347 (A size) box title Genthe duplicates for Gent... More

Civic Center Plaza Ethnic Dance Festival, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-2, at the Civic Center Plaza Ethnic Dance Festival, Indian dancer before performance; 3-11, Indian Temple Dance; 12-16, Asian Forum; Shin Sun Do (Shin-sun-Do, Shinsundo), world pe... More

Civic Center Plaza Ethnic Dance Festival, 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: 0-4, 16-19, Indian Temple Dance (East India) at the Civic Center Plaz... More

Greek night at the Governor Dyer Restaurant, Providence, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-19, Scenes in restaurant, Greek dancing Public domain photograph of theatrical or movie production, scene, actors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Bong Hee (Ma) Stephens, Korean dancer, Arlington, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 3-4, Miss Chongsook Ma (Tong Sook Ma), niece of Mrs. Bong Hee (Ma.) S... More

Mitrianne Popovich and Carl Oreskovich weedding in Serbian Orthodox Ch...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, dancing, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Bong Hee (Ma) Stephens, Korean dancer, Arlington, Illinois; stree...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-16, Mrs. Bonghee (Ma) Stephens, Korean dancer in Korean costume wit... More

[Portrait of Alicia Markova, "The Dying Swan"]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV FF 10. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Augusta in the rôle of the Bayadere / Henri Heidemans 1837 ; N. Currie...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0336

[Two ballerinas, blond woman in front with brunette woman behind]

V35183 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1890 by the Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 1. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Couple dancing, Peru]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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At his canter they kept chuckling

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "In Lighter Vein," Century.

Carroll & Queen's double cloc dance / J. H. Bufford's lith., Boston.

Two men performing dance. Copyright by Oliver Ditson & Co. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bufford's vegetable cards, no. 790-3 [wheat] / Bufford.

Print shows a young woman holding a sickle over her head, wearing a skirt made of leaves and the heads of wheat plants, facing slightly right, with wheat growing in the background. S24954 U.S. Copyright Office.... More

[Six Javanese women, two in native dress, four in costume, full-length...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ballerina in white costume with flowers in dance pose]

V35184 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1890 by the Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 2. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Blond woman in black dress with roses holding up skirt]

X3587 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1892 by Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 25. Small part of lower right corner missing. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Lib... More

Maria Theresa Duncan and other dancers

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Genthe collection - Unidentified dancer

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Gent... More

Dancer, lantern slide. Public domain reproduction.

Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, dance, dancer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Le Frou Frou 20', journal humoristique / L Capiello.

Poster showing a can-can dancer holding a copy of "Le Frou Frou" while she dances.

Helen Ray - Public domain portrait print

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

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Van Cortlandt Park, dancers doing Russian Dance, New York

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Denishawn dancers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Margot Oreville, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Bernhardt (Sorceress) - Public domain portrait print

A black and white photo of a woman holding a tennis racquet. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elsie Janis - Public domain portrait print

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

Bebe Daniels, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Phyllis Virginia Daniels (1901-1971), known professionally as Bebe Daniels, an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data prov... More

Portrait photograph of Ansley, C.M.Bell Studio

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Nude dancer, autochrome color photo

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Gent... More

Carmencita - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title and date from Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Videodisc image laterally reversed. Photograph of a painting signed "William M. Chase" at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029954.... More

Dancers in swings, Waldorf roof, New York

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

[Molasso and Corio, dance team in apache-type costume and pose]

Copyright by Moffett Studio, Chicago. Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Opening of the opera season - drilling the merry villagers / L.M. Glac...

Illustration shows President William H. Taft directing male and female dancers on a stage in a production of "Princess Prosperity", a script for which he is holding in his right hand. The male dancers hold empt... More