Arts Sports Leisure Images

Spirit photograph, supposedly taken during a seance - Actually a double exposure or composite of superimposed cut-outs, showing woman, half-length, with head-and-shoulders portraits of men and women around her head

Spirit photograph

The American Burlesquers 15 Beauties

Houdini--le maitre du mystere

Springfield Bicycle Club Tournament, Springfield, Mass., Sept. 11 and 12, 1895

The Birth of a Nation

Skating

Tobogganing

Jamaica Pond, West Roxbury, Mass.

Girls in bloomers on climbing apparatus, Western High School, Washington, D.C.

Title page of The Characters of Charles Dickens pourtrayed in a series of original water colour sketches by 'Kyd'

Mr. Micawber

Surf riders, Honolulu

Hawaii

National and state parks, skiing, skating, sliding, sleighing

Winter sports, national & state parks

Cartoon showing dressed man and dog coming from tub

Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels

A Pre-Raphaelite collection

The Chap-book

11th International Art Exhibition of the city of Venice, 1897

Willumsen's atelier--udstilling

Darmstadt, Mai-October 1901; die Ausstellung der Kunstler-Kolonie

Hollandische kunstausstellung in Krefeld vom 20 Mai bis 2 August 1903 im Kaiser Wilhelm Museum

The Adventures of Captain Horn by Frank R. Stockton, Charles Scribner's Sons publishers

The Century for Xmas

Wuthering heights

Rowing home the schoof-stuff

Children who stay in the city -- Children who go to Rockaway

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery

Au Louvre: musee des antiques

Atlantic City, the playground of the world--Travel by train

Aladdin

Absinthe robette

Delftsche Slaolie

The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Wild rivalries of savage, barbarous and civilized races

Winter sports in Quebec Centering round the Chateau Frontenac, Canadian Pacific Railway

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Birth of a nation, D.W. Griffith's immortal masterpiece

Pony tracks, written and illustrated by Frederic Remington

Bones

Black ballet

The Sheriff's reward

Souvenir de Niagara; Caprice caracteristique pour pianoforte par Aug. Gockel, Op. 19

The Chicago Times-Herald, consolidated March 4th, 1895

New York Journal's colored comic supplement " In gay New York" by Archie Gunn and R.K. Munkittrick. McFadden's row of flats by E.W. Townsend ...

Salon des Cent, 31, Rue Bonaparte, Paris. Exposition en D?cembre 1898 de l'oeuvre de James Ensor

Fairbank's Cherubs

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth. Troupe of very remarkable trained pigs

Carroll & Queen's Double Clog Dance

Maternal caress

Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows united. The wild wheel whirl wonders. The 7 Gaynells ...

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated. The Oxfords. William and Ella Orford. ... Original and high class principal bareback performances and sensational double jockey act

In Nicaragua Stop wriggling brother this only a little present we brought you from the land of the free, the home of the brave

St. Francis preaching to the birds

La R?forme, le 21 Novembre, le masque anarchiste

[River gods]

Sleighing in front of Barnum's Museum, Broadway & Anne St., New York

Pea Ridge march. Respectfully dedicated to Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, U.S.A. Composed by Chr. Bach

The Rustler's reformation

The Real thing in cowboys cupid in chaps

Use Dalley's magical pain extractor, the great family ointment Trade card, advertising Dalley's magical pain extractor, showing man, on ice skates, pushing woman on sled

Testing Clark's O.N.T. spool cotton

Gulliver and the Liliputians

Bailey's fine candies, 45 West Street, Boston Trade card, advertising Bailey's candies, showing boy sleighing

En tour

Two women in automobile, with two men standing alongside, another automobile across river, biplane above, and ruins of water mill on right

Base ball

Drawn on stone by F. Bedford, and printed in colours by Day and son. Celtic no. 2. Borders of interlaced ribbon patterns

America's Answer

Official United States War Films

[Triunph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 5]

The Star spangled banner : national song

Woman and man playing tennis

Christmas at Cafe Spaander

Golfer preparing to tee off

Woman and man golfers conversing

The overshadowed game

Football game

Man swinging golf club

Man about to drive a golf ball

They're after me

""Yes 13 is an Unlucky Number"" Exhibited in Best of the Comics: Master Cartoons from the Sturman Collection, Lied Discovery Children's Museum, 1990; Featuring the Funnies: One Hundred Years of the Comic Strip, Library of Congress, 1995.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West

The Great Pawnee Bill shows

Harmonica contest poster

St. Nicholas Restaurant. Shell oysters received daily by express. ... B. Roth & Sons, prop'rs

Joseph Mallard William Turner, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front on book cover

Hermann Scherrer: Breechesmaker, Sporting-Tailor, M?nchen. Neuhauserstr. 32

Munchener Rennverein E.V.

The Great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined. The frolics and amusing antics of twenty funny felt-crowned fools. ...

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined. Wondrous Sumatra, African and South-American wild beasts and birds, ...

The Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers. America's shows consolidated. Representative riders of every class and country ...

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated A congress of the giant birds of the world, ...

Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... Correct interior view of the great five continent menagerie ...

Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The wonderful Snow White ... zebu and riding peacock

Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The great Costellos ... on the aerial horizontal bars

I am coming - Col. W.F. Cody

Lion tamer

Horsman's celebrated lawn tennis

Le Theatre aux armees de la Republique

Three French song titles, with words to first verse of each

Matinee au benefice de L'OEuvre d'Assistance aux Blesses Fortziens

France & Islam. Matinee Franco-Musulmane

Fete Nationale Belge. Concert de gala

Buffalo Bill

Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Greetings: Edward Penfield 1922-1923

Speak for it

Female bathers, no. 4

Two young girls with horse and dog

Faithfull watcher

Two young girls reading book

The flowers in her hair

Childhood's happy hours

Little Bo Peep

The returned fugitive

Lady bug, lady bug, fly away!

Pastime for little fingers. The girls' play-grounds

Pastime for little fingers. The boys' play-ground

Everybody's friend. The happy little boy

Three strikes two-step, by A.W. Bauer, late of Sousa's band--Dedicated to John Philip Sousa's baseball team

On the fly.

Star club

Opening of the World's Fair - Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, with insert of head-and-shoulders portrait of Grover Cleveland.

Harry Houdini Letterhead printed in Frankfurt, Germany. Who would remember a modest magician, or one who failed to advertise? Letterhead and business cards promote the persona and, at this point in his career, Houdini was never understated.

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini, the expert handcuff manipulator

In Revelations of a spirit medium, or spiritualistic mysteries exposed (1891), a seminal text in the field of escapology, the anonymous author(s), A Medium, described how individuals thought to be tied by ropes and confined in sacks and cabinets effected

Harry Houdini, King of Cards

The Houdinis perform Metamorphosis A stunning illusion that continues to challenge master magicians of the 1990s, the performance of Metamorphosis was an early signature piece of the Houdinis.

Houdini at the Wintergarten, Berlin Houdini appeared at the Berlin Wintergarten in October 1900 and returned in April 1903. This vibrant poster from the later engagement documents the international context within which he performed

Houdini - newsletter cover

The Weed Chain Tire Grip Company challenges Mr. Harry Houdini

The World-famous Self-liberator Houdini Will Escape from the Water Torture Cell

Houdini on the Orpheum Circuit

Houdini, a mature statesman of magic

Untitled from the Orpheus series young boy leaning against rock with lute

Saint Sebastian

Youth with Winged Hat

The Seven Words

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth

Three Japanese women dancing

Spring flower polka Title continues: Composed and respectfully dedicated to the Young Ladies of St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, N.J. by Geo. W. Hewitt.

Cover illustration, Life magazine, February 18, 1926, showing a well dressed old man dancing with a flapper

The blue girl

Bloomer Waltz, (costume for summer). Composed by William Dessier. Op 29.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West--Col. W.F. Cody

WPA paintings by children under Federal Art Project, New York

The Case of Philip Lawrence

Watercolors and drawings, Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, at the new Federal Art Gallery

Prologue to glory

Be sure to visit the five-borough outdoor exhibitions of children's paintings, sculpture, prints, in Brooklyn

[Sarah] Bernhardt--American tour--Direction of Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau

Lorenzaccio

Four panels each depicting one of the four seasons personified by a woman

Little Orphan Annie. Well, Sandy, I see by the 'chimpanzee Herald' that cocoanuts [sic] have taken a drop

Winnie Winkle the breadwinner. Phooey! Spring house-cleaning again! Signed, lower right: BRANNER. Editorial marks in margins.

"Bringing Up Father." By golly, I wish I knew how to say corned beef an' cabbage in French ...

Reveries

Picture of Americans' love for children Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne Collection

The jungle by Upton Sinclair

Scene from Shakespeare's As you like it, showing actors H.B. Irving and George Alexander standing in front of wall

Scene from Shakespeare's As you like it, showing H.V. Esmond as a jester, Fay Davis, and Julia Neilson in garden, with castle in background

scene from Shakespeare's As you like it,

Scene from Shakespeare's As you like it,

Scene from Shakespeare's As you like it, showing George Alexander and Julia Neilson standing in forest

Scene from Shakespeare's As you like it,

Verso of oval portrait miniature in gold case, showing James Madison's hair in braided pattern

Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, Sunday

Information - Brookfield Zoo

Trobador Photomechanical reproduction of a woodcut. From: Boixos populars de Catalunya, Grafiques el Tinell.

Original Pickwick cover

Caricature of Charles Dickens (1870)

A. Vogelweith--Ch. Rinkel & Cie.--Manufacture d'instruments de musique

Germany--XIth Olympiad Berlin 1936

Advertising card showing two scenes from baseball game, first scene shows pitcher throwing ball to batter, second scene shows pitcher being struck in the head by the batted ball

Men wearing uniforms with collars during baseball game. Label states: Linen imitation ; button hole lined.

Mr. Stiggins

Mrs. Bardell

Mr. Pickwick

Keep pitching - we need those planes

Three men on horseback racing

Mark Twain, America's best humorist

As You Like It

Woman modeling dress on moss-covered steps, with Guatamalans surrounding her, Chichicastenango, Guatemala

[Fashion model on edge of boat, man rowing, Montego Bay, Jamaica]

[Sculling off Jamaica]

Tyrall Plantation, Jamaica Published in: Harper's bazaar, October 1948. Image published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967.

[Boccie players]

[Fashion model Dovima wearing bikini, lying on platform near water, Montego Bay, Jamaica]

Fashion model underwater with diver in dolphin tank, Marineland, Florida

Irving Berlin

Woman standing by flowering tree

Easter promenade

Morris Brothers minstrels from Boston

Le Markstein. La Nouvelle Station des Vosges

Innsbruck, Tyrol

Le Hohwald. Champ du Feu, Alsace

Arosa - Switzerland, Schweiz - Zwitserland, 6000 feet Suisse 1800m

Sports d'hiver dans les Vosges

Sports Invernali In Val D'Aosta

St. Moritz Grand Hotel

Up where winter calls to play Olympic bobsled run Lake Placid

Truth [for] Xmas '96

Wildbad Kreuth bei Tegernsee

Winter in Bayern

They like winter in New York State The state that has everything

Palais de glace--Champs Elysees

Mont Tremblant, Prov. Quebec, Canada

Zakopane Kasprowy

Skier on hill looking down at other skiers and village, with mountains in background

Superbagneres - Luchon. Sports d'hiver

Ste. Croix et Les Rasses ... Tous les sports. C.F.F.

Recreation [for] March

On show shoes to the barren grounds by Caspar W. Whitney ... now appearing in Harper's magazine

Scene from the second act of Antigone

New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders!

The new costume polka, composed for the piano by Martha Keller

King Solomon

Interior of Casino grounds, Newport

Interior of Casino Grounds, Newport, Rhode Island

The Banjo Lesson

The Ring Toss

Under the Gaslight

Minnie Maddern Fiske in HEDDA GABLER

The New York World's Fair

Caesar and Cleopatra

Popular Price Theatre presents The Dictator

Robert B. Mantell. Hamlet

Othello

Crowd around statue of William Shakespeare at the Great Exhibition, London, England

Federal Theatre - Marionette Theatre presents RUR

When attending the World's Fair, visit beautiful Sea Cliff 250 ft. altitude : No mosquitos.

Fetes de Paris, du 26 Mai au 7 Juillet 1935--Facilites exceptionnelles de voyage

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Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated

Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt... Eine Herrliche Menagerie ...

Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt--Eine Anzahl der Erstaunlichsten und ?berraschendsten Kunst?cke am Trapez ...

Ringling Bros' enormous free spectacular street carnival and big new parade

Parade with lion in cage on wagon, circus tent in background

The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--Achille Philion the marvelous equilibrist and originator

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth--The rival riders, Wm. Shoutes ... Wm. DeMott

The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--Kilpatrick's famous ride

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers great shows consolidated--Colonel Magnus Schult's magnificent $25,000,00 (sic) troup of champion great danes

John Robinson's $25,000 challenge feature--Mr. Louis Cyr strongest man on Earth--Assisted by the French Hercules Horace Barre ...

The great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined -- Terrific flights over ponderous elephants by a company of twenty five splendid artists in a great contest for valuable prizes

The big show of the world--Sells Brothers enormous united shows--Scenes of the Roman corso reproduced ...

Forepaugh and Sells Brothers great shows consolidated--Greater New York's greeting at the Dewey Arch to the glorious paragon of all parades

The mansion of happiness, an instructive, moral & entertaining amusement

21 of the ladies' book improved fashion plates

The sea shore

Evening dress

Godey's unrivalled colored fashions--February, 1855

Godey's fashions for December 1861

Godey's fashions

Godey's fashions for February 1865

I really must be in the fashion, comic song, by Van Der Weyde

April shower mazurka Sheet music cover showing three young women under umbrella

Final barber shop quartet contest presented by Park Department on the Mall, Central ParkSept. 10, 8:15 p.m.

Salut au Monde

Brahms Symphony Series

Folies Berg?re

The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones

Portrait of Walt Whitman

Among those noticed on Main Street were -

The wedding waltzes--For the pianoforte--Composed by W. Vincent Wallace Sheet music cover showing young woman, wearing bridal gown and holding bouquet of flowers, standing, three-quarter length, facing slightly right.

One little curl of auburn hair--Words and music by J.H. McNaughton Sheet music cover showing young woman, seated, three-quarter length, facing left, with her head propped on her right hand, holding lock of hair.

Portia

Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Benedick and Beatrice in Much ado about nothing

Ringling Bros. tremendous 1200 character spectacle Joan of Arc--An inspiring, vivid picture ... the magnificent coronation of Charles VII

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--The Mahdi or for the Victoria Cross--Scene 3d--War in the Soudan ...

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--A glance at the great ethnological congress and curious led animals

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth-- Imre Kiralfy's Columbus and the discovery of America?Grand romantic and picturesque ballet of 300 beautiful male & female dancers[...] / The Strobridge Lith. Co.

John Robinson's 10 big shows combined--The meeting of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--The great Livingstone, Davene & De Mora Troupe of champion acrobats, posturers, and hand balancers

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--Chaste, charming, weird & wonderful supernatural illusions ... created by Roltair, the magician

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--L'Auto Bolide thrilling dip of death--M'lle Mauricia de Tiers, the fearless, young and fascinating Parisian, in a dreadful, headlong leap, loop and topsy turvy plunging somersault with an automobile [...]

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated

The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers -- America's greatest shows consolidated -- Madame Yucca, the female Hercules, the strongest woman on Earth [...]

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--The world's largest, grandest, best, amusement institution?Total destruction of the Spanish Fleet, on the Cuban coast [...]

The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--A troupe of pearl divers from Hawaii, Sandwich Islands ... A veritable circus of the sea

Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance

The Pillars of Hercules

The Belligerent Plenipo's

Trial title page with author's annotations for LEAVES OF GRASS

You ought to be ashamed of yourself

On the raft

The chaplet, a waltz by Flora

The celebrated Sohmer pianos are preferred by the leading artists

Uprooted stalk

Clown alley

The girl reserves of the Y.W.C.A. Help us put the Blue Triangle over the top!

The tally-ho

Mutt and Jeff. Mutt, just slip on these new glasses of mine Signed, lower right, fifth frame: Fisher--. Inscribed in pencil below image: Mutt finds considerable merit in Jeff's magnifying glasses. Editorial marks in lower margin.

Little Nemo in slumberland. Hey! What's goin' on here? Signed, lower right, twelfth frame: WINSOR / McCAY.

The Kin-der-Kids (abroad). The kids' terrible adventure with a whale! Published in: Chicago Sunday Tribune, Nov. 1906.

Krazy Kat. Krazy Kat, having fashioned a pasty filled with an oleaginous amplitude of apple... Signed, lower left, tenth frame: HERRiMAN.

LIFE

View from the 2nd story of the residence of Mrs. Comre

Self-portrait

View on Staten Island - near Fort Richmond

Edwin C. Burt, fine shoes

Fort Richmond - Staten Island

Olga Nethersole's Sapho

Zorah

Lost in Siberia

THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE

The big farce comedy, Hello Bill by Frank J. Hallow & Marie Madison : a whole lot of fun - in 3 hours. Caption: Howdy. Some pieces of poster missing.

Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

David Belasco's comedy, Naughty Anthony

Hoboken Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress).

Drawing room polkas--Arranged for the piano forte

The young pilot, a nautical ballad

Come to the forest

Kellar in his latest mystery

Where there's smoke there's fire Signed, lower left: RUSSELL / PATTERSON. Title inscribed in blue pencil on verso. Inscribed in pencil on verso: No cut made.

Modjeska

Lyman H. Howe's High Class Moving Pictures

Lady MacBeth Act, 5th--'One, two; why then 'tis time to do't

Chavanne's Muses welcoming the genius of enlightenment, Boston Library

Herrmann the Great Co. Caption: Herrmann's beautiful illusion - maid of the moon. No. 6062.

Thurston, Master Magician All Out of a Hat

Kellar and his perplexing cabinet mysteries

A flying visit by Servais Le Roy

The great Goldin presenting the tiger god

Thurston the Great Magician

Banner act

The grand lay-out

Ninth annual New England Fair, at Lowell, Mass., Sept. 3, 4, 5 & 6 1872

Thos. W. Keene. Hamlet

Thos. W. Keene. Richard III

Vermouth Bellardi Torino

The odor of pomegranates

A New Song, On the Death of Robert Howel

The Star-Spangled Banner

Cover engraving from MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT

Charles Dickens

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Dance of the Mandan Indians

Esquimaux children dancing

Dance of the Mandan Women

General Harrison's Log Cabin March & Quick Step

An Ode to Gen. Andrew Jackson

Harrison Quadrilles

Abraham Lincoln's Funeral March

Rest, Noble Chieftan

The School Where Lincoln Went

U. S. Grant is the Man

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Chapter one, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Eliza Crosses the Ohio on the Floating Ice

Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold

Uncle Tom's Cabin and Buckingham Hall

A Dream

Theatre! Benefit!

An Early Photo of Walt Whitman

Title page from LEAVES OF GRASS

Page from the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS

Early draft of 'O Captain! My Captain!'

Printed copy of 'O Captain! My Captain!'

Advertising poster for LEAVES OF GRASS

Advertising circular for COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE

Autobiographic Note

Letter to Whitman

Revised title page of COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE

Portrait of Henry David Thoreau

Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

A. Bronson Alcott at the age of 53

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

S. M. Fuller

Charlotte Cushman as Meg Merrilies in 'Guy Mannering'

Fanny Kemble

Charlotte and Susan Cushman as Romeo and Juliet

Part sheet for the role of Queen Katherine

Holliday St. Theatre, Playbill

Letter to James H. Hackett

Junius Booth

The Booth Brothers in Julius Caesar

Edwin Booth as Hamlet

Interior of Laura Keene's new Broadway theater

Guy Mannering. Annotated prompt book.

Edwin Forrest

Five Celebrated Clowns Attached to Sands, Nathan Co's Circus

Acrobatic Act

Stone & Murray's Circus Is Coming

P.T. Barnum & Co's Greatest Show on Earth

Sells Brothers Enormous United Shows

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Miss Rose Meers.

Forepaugh & Sells Brothers

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth

The John Robinson Greatest of All American Shows

Ringling Bro's Marvelous Acting Pachyderms

Walter L. Main--63 Performing Horses in One Ring

Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Butterfly design for THE BARONET AND THE BUTTERFLY

Rotherhithe

Suede gloves

Whistler in his Fulham Road studio

First e-flat cornet (leader's) part of 'The Star Spangled Banner'

Band of the 10th Veteran Reserve Corps

E-flat Cornet, ca. 1855-65

Dawley's New War Novels, BOOTH THE ASSASSIN

Ford's Theater program for Friday evening, April 14, 1865

Beauty is Truth, Truth/Beauty

Baseball team on the U.S.S. MAINE

The Yellow Dugan Kid

Dimples

Mutt and Jeff

Universal Exhibition & World's Fair - St. Louis (3rd Olympic Games)

A tetrahedral kite

Dickson tips his hat

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

Biograph-Photograph Jeffries-Sharkey Contest

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

Jack Sprat

From AMELIAR-ANNE AND THE GREEN UMBRELLA

From THE SECRET GARDEN

Love

From FATHER GOOSE'S YEARBOOK

From THE WATERBABIES

From THE WONDERFUL BED

From PRINCESS GOLDENHAIR

From PRINCE UNO, UNCLE FRANK'S VISIT TO FAIRYLAND

From AT THE BACK OF THE NORTHWIND

Gymnasium in Carnegie Library

Children Reading in Roof Garden of the Rivington St. Library

Reading Room, Duluth Public Library

A boy and his team of bear cubs

Fly Fishing

Christmas Greens

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Kiralfy Bros. 'Black Crook!'

Kiralfy Bros. 'Around the World'

Way Down East

Hurly-Burly Extravaganza and Refined Vaudeville

A Trip to Chinatown

Monte Cristo

Charles Frohman presents Wm. Gillette in 'Sherlock Holmes'

The Heart of Maryland

Fred R. Hamlin's Musical Extravaganza, 'The Wizard of Oz'

The Fortune Teller

The goat carriages, Coney Island

Lennox Hill settlement orchestra

Labor Day parade

THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY

Hauling flag--Ebbets Park [sic] in Brooklyn

'Hot Dogs' for fans waiting for gates to open at Ebbets Field

Shibe Park, exterior view of the entrance

Polo Grounds, New York City, during a World Series game

Honus Wagner (center) and Ty Cobb (right)

Casey Stengel

Cy Young, Boston Red Sox pitcher

Roger Bresnahan, catching for the New York Giants

Bill Reynolds catching for the New York Yankees

New York Yankees baseball team, posed

Spectators at Pittsburg-Detroit game

William J. Klem, baseball umpire

Daniel Chester French

Ernest Hemingway (extreme left) and group of soldiers

Dempsey and Firpo

Artists' Evening (at Petitpas')

Group of girls in Greek dance

The bathing beach policeman

George Gershwin working as a staff writer at Harms Music

Rodgers, Johnson, Gershwin, and Glaenzer (L to R)

Geraldine Farrar. Metropolitan Opera Farewell.

Omar, on Scott's Run, West Virginia

Drawing in two colors

Beethoven Series

The Chocolate Soldier

Run Little Chillun

Rehearsal for EL MUNDO EN LA MANO (The World in his Hand)

Federal Theatre Project presents THE EMPEROR JONES

The Emperor's New Clothes: The Empress

Twelfth Night: Sir Toby Belch

Cardinal

Mr. Charles Hopkins and the Rip Van Winkle marionettes

Power: A Thrilling Dramatization of Modern Industry

Boy Meets Girl

CARMEN

Count Basie

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond

John Coltrane

Ella Fitzgerald

Jazzman Dizzy Gillespie

Billie Holiday

Portrait of Billy Strayhorn

Sarah Vaughan

Mary Lou Williams

Lester Young

Albert Richard All-America Football Map

Bar in a private home

Before the race, Hialeah Park

At the track, Hialeah Park

Along the beach

A meal on the sidewalk at the beach

At the beach

Looking east on Vale's main street

Decorations on the main street

Cold drinks inside the Red Robin cafe

Parade float

Motorcycle with stunt bars

Family picnic

After lunch

Tug-of-war

The pledge of allegiance at the ball field

On the midway

A specimen of types

War Bulletins

Baseball Game, Manzanar Relocation Center

Posters and Art Processes

Exhibition WPA Federal Art Project

Tightrope Performer

Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins in 'Appalachian Spring'

Martha Graham and Erick Hawkins

Aaron Copland

The full cast of 'Appalachian Spring' during its premiere

Erick Hawkins in 'Appalachian Spring' during its premiere

The Martha Graham Company in 'Appalachian Spring'

Paul Hindemith

Martha Graham in 'Mirror Before Me'

Martha Graham and May O'Donnell

Red Barber, baseball sportscaster, at the microphone

Ben Hogan

Tennis star Althea Gibson, at City Hall

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, with his new book

Teenage girls use lipstick to write on poster

Playing in the community sprayer

Saturday afternoon, 7th Street and Florida Avenue, NW

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, Robert F. Kennedy toasting

Joe DiMaggio Salutes His Bat

Alice Coachman

Life in the old Cousy yet

Billie Jean King

Knights of Lithuania picnic, South Campbell Avenue

St. Joseph Athletic Associations' 51st Annual Parade, Bridgeport

Mike Flately and Kevin Henry

South Berkeley Street

Mary Higeko Hamano's 'ikabana' class, North Halstead Street

Fishing on Lake Michigan

Wedding of Gail and Warren Kasztel, Palmer House

Norwegian Independence Day Parade

Family history quilt made by Katy Gregory, West 114th Street

The Grand Saloon of the Palace Steamer Drew

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Alla Nazimova in SALOME

Mae Marsh in THE WHITE ROSE

Lillian Gish in TRUE HEART SUSIE

White House grounds at the Easter egg roll

Self-portrait

Carl Van Vechten

Portrait of Diego Rivera

Portrait of Marian Anderson

Portrait of Joe Louis, Greenwood Lake

Portrait of Salvador Dali and Man Ray

Portrait of Mabel Dodge Luhan

Portrait of Truman Capote

Portrait of Thomas Benton

Portrait of Gertrude Kasebier

Amiri Baraka, b. 1934

Clyde Fitch, 1865-1909

Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975

Eugene O'Neill, 1888-1953

Lillian Hellman, 1905-1984

Clifford Odets, 1906-1963

Paddy Chayefsky, 1923-1981

George S. Kaufman, 1889-1961 and Moss Hart, 1904-1961

Winner at the Delta County Fair

Howard Nemerov, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (1988-90)

Rita Dove, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (1993-95)

Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (1997-98)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Helen MacGowan Cooke picking California golden poppies

Mabel Cramer or Alta Rush

People at an outdoor activity

Otis Skinner in KISMET

Sunday at Rye Beach, New York

Two Isadora Duncan dancers

Lydia Mendoza

Paul Gonsalves

'I Have a Boy' by Daniel M. Henderson

Help us put the Blue Triangle over the top!

In the bar

Six BEADLE'S DIME NOVELS

Portrait of Ethel Reed

Portrait of Elbert Hubbard

Portrait of Clarence H. White

Portrait of Robert Henri

CAMERA NOTES, vol. 2, no. 4.

Self-portrait

Women student activities--playing croquet, Carlisle Indian School

George Grantham Bain, 1865-1944

Marty Cutler and Jack Johnson

Army-Navy Game, Polo Grounds

Photography Exhibition Poster

Photography Exhibition Catalog Cover

East Side West Side

Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Well Known Artists

Exhibition of Work by Art Teachers on the Federal Art Project

Sculpture Exhibition

Printmakers

Free Summer Art Classes

Free Instruction for Children in Painting and Drawing

Free Music Instruction

Develop Their Talent

Carnival of the Arts

MACBETH

AMERICAN STUFF MAGAZINE

Artist Anthony Velonis Poster-making

Direction Special Issue: AMERICAN STUFF

The Big League Has Nothing on This Game

Teresa Truffi, opera singer and actress

Central Valley, California

Refreshment stand on U.S. Highway 99 in Oregon

El Centro, California. Carnival attraction of the Imperial County Fair.

Looping the Loop, Atlantic City

Electric Tower at Night, Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.

Bathing Hour on the Beach, Seabreeze [Daytona Beach, Florida]

The Tennis Courts, Central Park, New York

Self-portrait

Anna May Wong

Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill

Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden

Feast of the Visitation of Mary

Take Your Girl to the Ball Game

Duke Ellington performing at the Hurricane Club

Lewis Morrison's Magnificent New FAUST

Isadora Duncan

Costume sketch for Olivia

Costume sketch for Sir Andrew Aguecheek

Euphonic Sounds: A Syncopated Novelty

Wall Street Rag

The Making of SOUTH PACIFIC

LEAVES OF GRASS

Beadle's Dime Novels

Drawings for Homer's ILIAD

Marble carving shop in the Thomas Jefferson Building