THEATRE RESEARCH GUIDE: Images

The thousands of items in this digital presentation from The New York Public Library are a sampling of an archive of more than 75,000 images of theatrical personalities and productions.

From The New York Public Library. Tens of thousands of photographs of actors and actresses, in character and as themselves, from the 19th century to recent years.

Cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses from the 18th through the early 20th centuries. A special collection from the University of Florida (Gainesville).

Cartes-de-visite studio portraits of entertainers, actors, and actresses who performed on the American stage in the mid- to late 1800s. From the University of Washington

From the Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College Libraries.

Original materials on the theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States, including costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatches of fabric. From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Images of items selected from the Library of Congress's Federal Theatre Project Collection, one of the five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).