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Gotthold Octoroon Combination, American vaudeville and popular enterta...

K11705 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: J.N. Gotthold as Salem Scudder. Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collect... More

Thatcher, Primrose & West's Minstrels

Caption: Music and it's charms, originated & directed by Mr. Barney Fagan. Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti, N=Y & London." N.Y. 2251. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Mathews & Bulger in the polite comic play, At gay Coney Island by Levi...

B252631 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: My trunk is full of things! Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." Direction, A.M. Miller, Jr., Fred Peel. No. 7300. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels

C259696 U.S. Copyright Office Captions: New and superb prismatic first part Wm. H. West in the superb prismatic first part & the great Zouave Patrol Ezra Kendall Carroll Johnson, the Adonis of minstrelsy ... More

The Rays in their howling success, A hot old time, 2nd edition by Geor...

48355 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6183. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Haverly's European Mastodon Minstrels

Caption: As they appeared participating in the inauguration of the President of the United States at Washington. Small pieces missing from top of poster. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes]

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bob Manchester's The Cracker Jacks a 20th century idea.

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

F. Ziegfeld, Jr. presents Anna Held in Jeaan Richepin's play, Mam'sell...

"Knickerbocker Theatre." Created and "copyright 1903 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 10721. Upper left corner missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Cong... More

West Point cadets, America's greatest military organization on the Gra...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

West Point cadets on parade plaza, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904

H 49917 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5735. Public domain photograph of procession, parade in Germany, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ralph Stuart in his great success By right of sword

G xxc 7663(?) U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Ralph Stuart. Created and "copyright 1904 by The Courier Company, Lith. Dpt., Buffalo, N.Y." Direction, Edward Thurnaer. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More

Ruth St. Denis dancing - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G432-301-025 (vd# 13514)

[Crate containing Harry Houdini, being lowered from ship into water] /...

J194551 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Houdini. Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his ti... More

Audrey Munson in "Purity," Liberty Theatre Apeda, N.Y

Photograph shows Munson seated on a tiger skin rug. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Genthe collection - Isadora Duncan dancing

Title devised. Credit line: Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Genthe photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/l... More

Genthe collection - Isadora Duncan dancing

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G432-1476-H (vd# 15156); As I remember, facing p. 185; similar image

Ruth St. Denis dancing, lantern slide

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

The Crimson skull, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster showing a man and woman in western garb with a horse standing between them. The Norman Film M'f'g Co. presents "The Crimson Skull." Baffling western mystery photoplay co-starring Anita Bu... More

[Houd ini swims river in scene from "The man from beyond"]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Canada, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houdini - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows crowds in front of the Treasury Building on Fifteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., gathered for straitjacket escape of Harry Houdini (Houdini not visible). Title from unverified data provided by ... More

Festival of modern dance - Myra Kinch & group Music by Manuel Galea.

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Myra Kinch and Group" in a concert of modern dance with music by Manuel Galea, showing a dancer flinging her skirt wide. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An overall assembly line whe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus the greatest show on earth

Circus poster showing an outdoor scene of four giraffes. Copyright deposit.

Birthday gala for Rosa Parks, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 1990

Photograph shows Wintley Phipps singing to Rosa Parks on the Kennedy Center stage. Coretta Scott King and Parks' aunt Everee McCauley Ward are standing behind Parks. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the R... More

Kellar, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Z29086 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin., N.Y." Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Poster - Kellar in his latest mystery - Public domain lithograph

C252447 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Self decapitation. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 7647. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Nat King Cole - Public domain portrait photograph

Photographs show singer Nat King Cole performing and socializing. Includes Cole performing in a nightclub; performing for patients at a Chicago hospital; visiting a church and playing piano with choir member; d... More

Nat King Cole - Public domain portrait photograph

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

D13818 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The golf parade : Wm. H. West adopts the latest fad for his great noon-day street display. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. ... More

Chauncey Olcott in the great play Mavourneen

Augustus Pitou, manager. Caption: The song of "The auld countrie." Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8962. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Lib... More

[Crucifixion, frontal, with Mary, Mary Magdalene, Joseph and St. John(...

Photograph shows F. Holland Day portraying the crucified Christ attended by two women and two men. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Mounts are layered top to bot... More

Hurly-Burly Extravaganza and Refined Vaudeville

47900 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Kelly & Ashby. Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2718. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Olga Nethersole's version of Sapho by Clyde Fitch.

Created by "The Metropolitan Print., 222 to 232 W. 26th St., New York." Gift; Maxine Williams; 1973. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

Consists of portraits of Carroll Johnson, Tom Lewis, Geo. B. Mack, and Ed. Howard, all in blackface. 44240 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Four of our nation's fun makers. Printed on upper right corner: N.Y. no... More

"Jimmie the Porter; True Love in Disguise"

Motion picture poster for "Jimmie the porter, true love in disguise" shows an African American man, possibly Sidney Smith, shining shoes. Copyright 1914 by Selig Studio. Motion Picture Poster Collection.

Bernhardt--American tour--Direction of Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau / Mucha...

Art nouveau poster showing actress Sarah Bernhardt holding palm frond. Promotional goal: Fr. K72. 1896.

Primrose & Dockstader's Huge Minstrel Company

D7512 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The first complete canvas theatre ever erected in America. Seating 3000 people. 2 performances daily. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y."... More

Poster - W.T. Carleton as Claude Duval - Public domain lithograph

N2843 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright 1882-by WF Morse." Created by "Metropolitan Print., 28 Ann St., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee (formerly of Primrose & West).

34417 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: A grand up to date first part with the leading comedians, vocalists, and the greatest orchestra ever heard in minstrelsy. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith.... More

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

D13819 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: On top of the ladder at last, Lew Sully, the real fellow with the troupe : comedian, composer, author, and originator. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho C... More

An Unselfish love, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "An Unselfish Love" shows a man and a woman on a farm standing by a hog pen. An Edison film. No. 5851.

[Houdini on wing of airplane in scenes from "The grim game"]

Public domain photograph of aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of... More

The new musical comedy, Hotel Topsy Turvy

"Herald Square Theatre." Caption: Eddie Foy as the bogus count. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Litho, Co. Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8297. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Libra... More

The Wedding march, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "The Wedding March" shows Eric von Stroheim as the character Prince Nicki von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg. Purchase; 1975. A Paramount Pictures film. No. 2853.

Hyde & Behman's great comedy, Muldoon's picnic

M5629 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "Windisch & Geissler Lith., 439 6th St., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Thurston's greatest mystery the vanishing whippet Willys-Overland car ...

"Country of origin U.S.A." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of: McManus-Young collection of pictoria... More

Edwin Booth as Hamlet, portrait print

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 167. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congres... More

Chas. H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut novel and thrilling, bi...

B217635(?) U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Chas. H. Kabrich. Created by "The Donaldson Litho. Co., Cin'ti, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Herbert K. Betts in a play of the golden west, An Arizona cowboy

Created and "copyright, 1905 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 8634-B. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels all white performers.

Includes four vignettes. Caption: Geo. W. Lewis, originator of new ideas in the terpsichorean art and "melo-phrase" dancing. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y.... More

Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels a happy lot of funny coons in m...

Includes multiple captions describing activities. Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The Russell-Morgan Print, U.S. Printing Co., largest in the world, Cincinnati, U.S.A." No. 3069. Forms part of: Minstrel poster... More

Pawnee Bill's historic wild west .. the bullfight ...

Circus poster showing a bullfight on top half and parade of matadores, picadores, banderilleros, etc. on the lower half. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York.

Sapho, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

D969 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Olga Nethersole. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." Direction of Marcus R. Mayer. No. 2869. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Li... More

Sapho, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Herrmann the Great Co. - Public domain print

Caption: Leon Herrmann. Created by "The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6825. Small portrait of Herrman the Great in upper left corner. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Kar-mi performing the most startling mystery of all India

Public domain photograph of death, macabre, skeleton, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Houdini and Jennie, the elephant, performing at the Hippodrome, New Y...

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spectacular escape acts and death-de... More

Egypt or A daughter of the Nile

S2373 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Effie Ellsler. Copyrighted 1887 by W.J. Morgan & Co. Created by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

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

Print shows Miss Taylor and Mr. Chanfrau sitting at a table; they both gesture toward the right. 32 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: Lize. Waiter let me have a cup of coffee and nine doughnuts. / Mose. Holla th... More

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

46066 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Carroll Johnson the artistic Canadian. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 4010. Forms part of: Minstrel poste... More

Dancing for eels A scene from the new play of New-York as it is, as pl...

Print shows Frank S. Chanfrau as the character "Mose", sitting on a barrel watching an African American man dance on a dock along the waterfront, with a crowd of spectators gathered aound. A poor boy, actor Joh... More

Dancing for eels A scene from the new play of New-York as it is, as pl...

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidate...

Poster shows great danes performing various acrobatic stunts with trainer Colonel Magnus Schults and his assistants under the big top at the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus.

Richards & Pringle's, Rusco & Holland's Big Minstrel Festival

32630 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyright 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3214. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Poster - The Passion of Joan of Arc - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "The Passion of Joan of Arc" shows Renée Maria Falconetti as Joan of Arc. no. 1 a: Purchase; (DLC/PP-1975:115). no. 1 b: Purchase; (DLC/PP-1977:118). Caption: An immortal screen class... More

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

"Made in U.S.A." Caption: Do the spirits come back? Created by "The Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O." No. O-656. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic pos... More

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth--The rival riders, William ...

Male equestrians, including Wm. Shoutes and Wm. DeMott, horses, and clown performing. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co.

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act...

H78308 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42938. No. 507. Exhibited: Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama, the Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y., 2005-2006.

Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes

D5660 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "The Strobridge Litho Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 8885. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

F. Holland Day - [Crucifixion, profile, right]

Exhibit object number: 2. Mounts are layered top to bottom: greenish buff, grey. On recto: "98" black, lower left. Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day; PEOPLE men. Title and other data comes from a curatoria... More

Charles Frohman presents William Gillette in his new four act drama, S...

D6401 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "The Metropolitan Print., 222 to 232 W. 26th St., New York." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The theatrical atlas / G. Cruikshank fect., British Cartoon Print

Edmund Kean, as the humpbacked Richard III, standing on a large book labeled Shakespear, with a model of Drury Lane Theatre, a massive block labeled Whitbreads Intire, on his head. Forms part of : British Carto... More

Mrs. Merry as Alzira / De Wilde pinxt. ; Leney sculp.

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ella Zuila, the Australian funambuliste

K11710 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Poster - Jennie Yeamans "Our Jennie" - Public domain lithograph

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster - Jennie Yeamans "Our Jennie" - Public domain lithograph

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Genthe collection - Grete Wiesenthal (Donauwalzer)

Lantern slide reproduction by Arnold Genthe of a photograph by the Viennese photographer Rudolf Jobst. Title from caption. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. NO NAR; not in MUMs, no conflict 5/23/96; name f... More

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels

C259695 U.S. Copyright Office Captions: New and superb first part Geo. H. Primrose George Wilson "waltz me again" Milt. G. Barlow, the famous darkey character "Old Black Joe" Quaker City Quartette, the ... More

The Rays in A hot old time by Edgar Selden.

C248355 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Ninety in the shade. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 5727. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Sapho: Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique / / PAL.

Performing arts poster for a performance of a comic opera by Henri Cain and Arthur Bernède, with music by Jules Massenet and based on a novel by Alphonse Daudet, showing Emma Calvé as Fanny LeGrand.

Fisher and Carroll in a slap-bang absurdity, The Lobster

"Make life worth living." "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Do you see somethin' - or have I got 'em? Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin. & N.Y." Management of the author, Edgar Selden. ... More

Poster - Paul Gilmore in The musketeers - Public domain lithograph

33825 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The musketeers. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The Seer Print., New York." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt Reiter-wettrennen....

Poster showing a man standing on horse bareback. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York. Printed in America.

[Maxine Elliott, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, as Porti...

No. 3. Copyright by Burr McIntosh. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pauline Donalda, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, as Terl...

H86072 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by Mishkin, N.Y. Public domain photograph - 1900s actress, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photograph of Margaret Anglin as Electra

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Genthe collection - Isadora Duncan dancing

Desha dancing, lantern slide lantern slide

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

Ruth St. Denis dancing, lantern slide

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

Male and female - Public domain portrait photograph

Motion picture lobby card for "Male and female" shows socialite Gloria Swanson sitting on couch staring back at her butler,Thomas Meighan, standing behind her with empty tray in hand. Caption: "Rather democrat... More

Ruth St. Denis dancing - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G39-0301-D-011 (vd# 126); related image

Genthe collection - Margaret Severn dancing

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G401-3299-B-021 (vd# 7308)

[R. J. Boyd playing fiddle; and Millard Garrett playing banjo, both fr...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during the Asheville Mountain Music Festival. Handwritten on back: "R.J. Boyd & Millard Garrett (70 & 72 ye... More

Myra Kinch & group "Festival of modern dance"

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Myra Kinch and Group" in a concert of modern dance at the Santa Ana High School auditorium, Santa Ana, Calif., showing a dancer flinging her skirt wide. Spons... More

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - See you at the greatest sh...

Circus poster showing a clown face. Gift; Ringling Bros., 1945. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey the greatest show on earth

Circus poster showing seven women performing in a cage with big cats. Copyright deposit.

Michelle Cannon, right, owns and runs the Cannon Quarter Horse Ranch n...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Houdini jumps from Harvard Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts John H. Thurs...

Photograph shows Houdini standing by the side of the Charles River wearing chains and handcuffs. Master of the "Impossible Possible," Houdini performs one of his stunning manacled jumps from Harvard Bridge, fo... More

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