theater

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

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View from Hebrew University, outdoor theater

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Organs and other relics on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. To...

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Music machines and mining pans now on display in the Bird Cage Theater...

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Twenty-mule team wagon on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum in T...

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Theater. Montrose, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congre...

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Beach Theatre, Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. Auditorium doors

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Beach Theatre, Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. Entrance marquee I

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Beach Theatre, Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach, Florida. Auditorium, to side ...

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Children in front of moving picture theater, Easter Sunday matinee, Bl...

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New York City views. Times Square, wide shot, toward the vaudeville th...

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Children in front of moving picture theater, Easter Sunday matinee, Bl...

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In front of the movie theater. Chicago, Illinois

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Aroostook County, Maine. Father Soucy on the steps of the community th...

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Firehouse Station No. 4. Washington, D.C. Cleaning a hose in front of ...

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Reciprocal aid. Two sergeants from Texas, Sergeant A. Baker and Techni...

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

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[Scene from "Othello" with Paul Robeson as Othello, Theatre Guild Prod...

New York, New York. Merchant marine theatre. Wing canteen. The audienc...

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[Portrait of Louis Jordan, Paramount Theater(?), New York, N.Y., ca. J...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottli... More

Greece. Delphi, the theatre, Temple of Apollo on left

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Caramoor Theater, Katonah, New York. Caramoor Theater V

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Loew's State Theater, Broadway and 45th St., New York City. Wide view ...

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Window at Tupelo Hardware in Tupelo, Mississippi, home of singing lege...

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. Presley's mother, Gladys, bought the young man his first... More

Charles S. Colden Auditorium and School, Queens College. Small theatre...

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Charles S. Colden Auditorium and School, Queens College. Small theatre...

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[Mr. & Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller, half-length portraits, seated at ...

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Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U Street, next to Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The theater, located on "Washington's Black Broadway," ... More

Photograph of Dance Theatre of Harlem in a reconstruction of Les Noces...

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Resident of Essex Mill Apartments in courtyard with her children; the ...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district.

Kirov Drama Theater (1939), Viatka, Russia

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Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

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The distressed Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Delayed and over budget, the Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas opened on March 31, 1930. The opening was the first event in what t... More

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

Organ in Avalon theater at the Catalina Casino, built on the site form...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber. It is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

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Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... 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

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Shoals Theatre sign in Florence, Alabama

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

Artifact in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Theat...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Roy Roger's hand and footprints, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Los Angele...

The grand opening of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on May 18, 1927, was the most spectacular theatre opening in motion picture history. Thousands of people lined Hollywood Boulevard and a riot broke ou... More

The Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, California

Designed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles in a period when Santa Barbara was being rebuilt in that style following an earthquake in 1925. Title, date, and keywords provided by the phot... More

Sheffield is home to the Ritz Theater, a 1920's silent movie house tha...

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

Art murals on the exterior of the Fox Warfield Theatre, a 2,300 seat m...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Auditorium chandelier [Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas]

Title devised by Library staff based on similarity to other images of the Jefferson Theatre. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congre... More

Auditorium detail [Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas]

Title devised by Library staff based on similarity to other images of the Jefferson Theatre. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congre... More

The Plaza Theatre in Laredo, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1947, the 1,586-seat Plaza Theatre was designed as a movie house and originally featured first-run American and Mexican film... 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

One facade of "Sunridge," the last home of Hollywood actor Dennis Weav...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. For sale at the time of this image in 2015 and described as "eco-friendly" by the realty agency, Sunridge was designed for Weaver, the... More

The Warner Theatre marquee in Morgantown, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... 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

Assassination of President Lincoln, Ford's Theatre, Washington, April ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kellogg, E.B. & E.C.

John Barrymore, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor John Barrymore. Stamped on verso: "Duplicate." Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the An... 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

The Eternal Prodigal (23 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

The Cradle Will Rock (25 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

Ferdinand the Bull (54 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

Woodlawn, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virgini...

Significance: Notable Georgian/Federal 5-part house, designed by William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol. Woodlawn was built on part of the Mount Vernon estate for George Washington's adopted g... More

Woodlawn, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virgini...

Significance: Notable Georgian/Federal 5-part house, designed by William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol. Woodlawn was built on part of the Mount Vernon estate for George Washington's adopted g... More

Woodlawn, 9000 Richmond Highway, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virgini...

Significance: Notable Georgian/Federal 5-part house, designed by William Thornton, architect of the United States Capitol. Woodlawn was built on part of the Mount Vernon estate for George Washington's adopted g... More

Standard Theatre, 300 West Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Jackson County...

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Hallie Flanagan - Instructions - Federal Theatre Projects

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Administrative Records - Background File. The Administrative Records - Background File (1935-40 and undated) consists of 10 containers (Boxes 1-10) and comprises corresponden... More

[ Martha Graham, Erlager Theatre, February 25, 1939]

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J. Winans in the character of "Joe" in the new play of New York as it ...

Print shows John Winans in the character "Joe", full-length portrait, standing in the street, facing front, as a beggar wearing tattered clothing, holding two apples in his right hand. 112 U.S. Copyright Office... More

Ada Theatre, 700 Main Street, Boise, Ada County, ID

Significance: Still used as originally planned, this neo-Egyptian Revival Style building, unique to Idaho, is the only survivor of the movie palace and grand cinema era in Boise. The theater was designed by Tou... More

Al. Ringling Theatre, 136 Fourth Street, Baraboo, Sauk County, WI

Significance: The Al. Ringling Theatre is one of the first example of palatial design applied to the moving picture theatre in this country. A touch of France in the Midwest, it was listed on the National Regi... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

Oriental Theatre, 828 Southeast Grand Avenue, Portland, Multnomah Coun...

Significance: The Oriental Theatre, the second largest moving picture theatre built in Oregon, was erected in conjunction with an office building and contained notable examples of thematic decor derived from an... More

[View of the Apollo Theatre marquee, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and ...

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Ford Theater, in which Lincoln was shot, Washington, D.C.

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Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Fox Theater, Seventh Avenue & Olive Way, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The Music Hall Theatre in Seattle was an outstanding example of the golden age of the American picture palace. Designed in an eclectic Spanish Renaissance idiom, the theatre was considered the fi... More

Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA

Significance: House of playwright Eugene O'Neill until 1944. O'Neill played a central role in elevating the importance of theater as an artistic expression. Some of O'Neill's best work was written at this hou... More

Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA

Significance: House of playwright Eugene O'Neill until 1944. O'Neill played a central role in elevating the importance of theater as an artistic expression. Some of O'Neill's best work was written at this hou... More

Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA

Significance: House of playwright Eugene O'Neill until 1944. O'Neill played a central role in elevating the importance of theater as an artistic expression. Some of O'Neill's best work was written at this hou... More

Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA

Significance: House of playwright Eugene O'Neill until 1944. O'Neill played a central role in elevating the importance of theater as an artistic expression. Some of O'Neill's best work was written at this hou... More

Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA

Significance: House of playwright Eugene O'Neill until 1944. O'Neill played a central role in elevating the importance of theater as an artistic expression. Some of O'Neill's best work was written at this hou... More

Fort Sherman, Theater, Intersection of Sturgis, Butner, & Martin Roads...

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Fort Sherman, Theater, Intersection of Sturgis, Butner, & Martin Roads...

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Fort Sherman, Theater, Intersection of Sturgis, Butner, & Martin Roads...

Houdini appears at the Empire Theatre, every evening this week

At head of title: Liverpool city police office, Dale St., Feb. 2nd, 1904, I certify that to-day Mr. Harry Houdini showed his abilities in releasing himself from restraint. ... Signed Leonard dunning, Head Const... More

Jonathan Kirkbride House, 104 Theatre Street, Mobile, Mobile County, A...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS AL-14 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction

Jonathan Kirkbride House, 104 Theatre Street, Mobile, Mobile County, A...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS AL-14 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial Construction

Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor & Fort Mears, Headquarters Area Recr...

Significance: This was constructed to foster morale and represents an effort to provide rest and relaxation to naval personnel stationed on the isolated bases of the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Unpro... More

Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor & Fort Mears, Headquarters Area Recr...

Significance: This was constructed to foster morale and represents an effort to provide rest and relaxation to naval personnel stationed on the isolated bases of the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Unpro... More

The New York Manhattan Theatre success, William A. Brady & Jos. R. Gri...

Caption: Ladies, allow me to introduce to you my life-preserver, the noble red-skin! Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Thall & Kennedy. N.Y. no. 9065. ... More

Hollis Street Theater, Hollis Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: Built as a church 1810. Remodeled for a theatre 1885. Demolished 1935. Architect John R. Hall. Survey number: HABS MA-157 Building/structure dates: 1885 Subsequent Work

Actor dressed as George Washington posing with a young lady on Pennsyl...

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

Columbia Theatre, 215 Riverside Mall, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Pa...

Significance: Originally called the Columbia, this theater, built in 1920, was hailed at its opening as the "most complete temple for silent drama to be found in the Southern States." Walter E. Stephens, of th... More

Columbia Theatre, 215 Riverside Mall, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Pa...

Significance: Originally called the Columbia, this theater, built in 1920, was hailed at its opening as the "most complete temple for silent drama to be found in the Southern States." Walter E. Stephens, of th... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More

Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County...

Significance: The Alabama Theatre, designed by Chicago architects Graven & Mayger, was erected in 1927 by Paramount's Publix Theatre chain as its flagship theatre for the southeastern region of the United State... More