LibGuides: Dramaturgy: Media, Images, Copyright & Sources

Performance & Theatre Images

These are free, publicaly available visual resources of for theatre and dance.

19th Century Actors Photographs
610 cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s.
Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs
230 photographs and ephemera relating to the career of Pat Prior and Effie Norris documenting their life on the road while performing on the American vaudeville circuits around the turn of the century, 1886-1915.
J. Willis Sayre Photographs
9,856 images collected by drama critic and theater promoter J. Willis Sayre; autographed portraits of actors, vaudeville performers, movie stills, singers, dancers, musicians, comedians and acrobats.
Let's go to the Circus!
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History
Visual chronicle of the artistic productions of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the years 1977-1994. The collection presents 1,800 images documenting 195 performances during 17 seasons.
Bunraku Collection
Photographs of live bunraku theater performances from the second half of the 20th century.
"Loose Women in Tights:" Images of Femininity in Early Burlesque Performance
Online exhibition with samples from the Charles H. McCaghy Collection of Exotic Dance from Burlesque to Clubs.
Robert Breen/ANTA Theatre Collection
Details the work of Robert Breen, the driving force behind the reformation of American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) in 1946 and a staunch supporter of its eventual successor, the National Endowment for the Arts.
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit.
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
Over 13,000 images of items, including stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions.
Federal Theatre Project (FTP) Materials Collection
Thousands of poster, costume, and set images.
On Stage and Screen: Photograph File of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection
The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives devoted to the theatrical arts. Encompassing dramatic performance in all its diversity, the division is an indispensable resource for artists, writers, researchers, scholars, students, and the general public.

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ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

OAlster
OAIster is a union catalog of more than 19,000,000 records representing digital resources from more than 1,000 contributors. Digital resources include scanned books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies and datasets

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Oxfords acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. In addition, users can search and access Oxford art reference titles including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Access limited to 3 simultaneous users.

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