Historical Performances

Vintage photographic representations of theatrical scenes, featuring costume dramas and musicians, reflecting artistic performance from past centuries.

The judge, or justice, from The Seven Ages of Man - As You Like It by William Shakespeare, J. Landy, c. 1872 - In or Before 1877 photograph photographic support albumen print historical persons. adult man. theatre, theatrical performance

Photo production of a painting of a concert in Slot Sanssouci by Adolph Menzel, Gustav Schauer, After Adolph Menzel, c. 1863 - in or before 1868 photograph Berlin paper albumen print more than one musician with instrument. palace Sansosouci

A stereo-format photograph of the Tunisian gallery at the World Exhibition in Vienna, 1873, preserved on albumin paper in its original box.

Genre: costume ball. Unknown

Scene of an unidentified play. E. Lamy (French, active 1860s - 1870s)

Theatrical representation of a sleeping man and woman surrounded by games, musical instruments and a dog, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880 stereograph In front of the dog is a sign with the text: A l'amour et au feu on s' Habitue. Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print cithern, mandolin, guitar, balalaika. chess. dog Europe

Genre: costume ball. Unknown

Exhibition 1900, musicians ..

Genre: costume ball. Unknown

The judge, or justice, from The Seven Ages of Man - As You Like It by William Shakespeare, J. Landy, c. 1872 - In or Before 1877 photograph photographic support albumen print historical persons. adult man. theatre, theatrical performance

Scene in pub: company in costume ..

Theatrical scene. Charles Gaudin Ch. G. (French, active 1860s)

Soldiers enjoying entertainment at the Kewem Frolic in Tours, France during World War One. A photograph taken by the Signal Corps, it shows attendees Rose and Warner. The description highlights the event location and the fact that the photo was issued by Syngol. The photo was taken at the Latonia Race Track and general admission cost one dollar. Photo number 61562.

Theatre scene of a mythological nature. Charles Gaudin Ch. G. (French, active 1860s)

Scene from Cinderellaester, Charles Dauvois, 1867 tissue stereograph Paris photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / cutting / perforating the arts of the stage: ballet, theatre, musical drama, motion picture Paris

Niblo's Garden. American scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Theaters , New York (State) , New York, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Entertainment , New York (State) , New York

World's peace jubilee, 1872. Boston coliseum. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Peace movements

Scene from a play about Jeanne d'Arc in Hippodrome de Longchamp, Paris, Ch.G. Petit, c. 1891 - In or Before 1896 photomechanical print paper theatre, theatrical performance Longchamp Hippodrome

Scene in salon: lotter ..

Theatrical show of a marriage proposal based on the play Un Mariage Sous Louis XV of Alexandre Dumas, Charles Paul Furne (Attributed to), 1859 stereograph Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print proposal, declaration of love Europe

Stereo photo of the theater in Paris, Anonymous, c. 1867 stereograph Paris cardboard. photographic support albumen print group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage Paris

Melancholy baby , Big bands, Singers, Dance, Nightclubs. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Scene in castle: two men in historic clothing with vision ..

Stereo photo of the theater in Paris, Anonymous, c. 1867 stereograph Paris cardboard. photographic support albumen print group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage Paris

Scene, the world tour in eighty days, Anonymous, 1876 tissue stereograph Paris photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / cutting / perforating the arts of the stage: ballet, theatre, musical drama, motion picture

Ballet: three dancing women ..

Chteau des fleurs , Dance halls, Light fixtures, Alexandre Benois Collection

The 1st floor. The modist ..

Photograph by Cecil van Haanen depicting a concert society, showing musicians, audience, and performance setting.

Theatrical representation of a pierrot and two women in a sitting room ..

The Fairy...

Stereofoto of the theater in Paris; La Dame Blanche III ACTS SCENE 5 ..

Theatrical representation of a sculptor in his studio that makes a sculpture of a woman present, with a man with a hat and a sword.

Theater performance of a fight, in the Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat in Jogyakarta, Indonesia, Kassian Céphas, c. 1883 - in or before 1888 photomechanical print The Kingdom of Hadiningrat paper collotype group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. fighting The Kingdom of Hadiningrat

Dec. for hospital, Gloucester , Dance, Musicians. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Stereo photo of the theater in Paris, Anonymous, c. 1867 stereograph Paris cardboard. photographic support albumen print group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage Paris

A Belle's Stratagem. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Cowley, Hannah, 1743-1809. Belle's stratagem

Constantin Meunier. Scene in a cabaret in Seville

Theatrical representation of two fighting men and three spectators in a pub ..

Irish family scene at table from One Third of a Nation. 1938. text. Photographs. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Segal, Edith, 1902-, Arent, Arthur. One-third of a nation

Emperor Franz Joseph and Kaiser Wilhelm II at Hofball, Wilhelm Gause -, artist

View of two performances during the Calven-Feier in Chur, Lienhard & Salzborn, in or after 1899 photomechanical print Put paper collotype activities in the air ~ public festivities, e.g. fly-past. swearing an oath (with two fingers raised). musical drama, performance of musical drama

Five recordings of Theater de la Gaite in Le Petit Poucet, Félix Nadar, c. 1880 - c. 1886 photomechanical print paper printing block theatre, theatrical performance. group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage Paris

Break during a concert, Harrie Kuyten, 1893 - 1921 print On the left a stage with resting musicians and a sign with the word 'puse'. To the right the audience. This print is part of a cover with six prints. paper concert hall. resting

Staging with dolls, representing a battle of figures with animal masks ..

Music Lesson..

Scene from Cinderellaester, Charles Dauvois, 1867 tissue stereograph Paris photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / cutting / perforating the arts of the stage: ballet, theatre, musical drama, motion picture Paris

The country choir , Choirs Music, Singing

Artistic Cabaret of the Agile Montmartre rabbit / artificial lighting sic. Group portrait, interior of the cabaret of the agile rabbit, 18th arrondissement, paris Group portrait, interior of the cabaret of the agile rabbit. Paris (18th arrest). Anonymous photography. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver.

A Belle's Stratagem. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Cowley, Hannah, 1743-1809. Belle's stratagem

World's peace jubilee, 1872. Boston coliseum. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1872. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Peace movements

Ballroom with dancing couples and orchestra.

The play-house habit of King Richard III. Habit de theatre du roi Richard III.. Prints. 1757 - 1772. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Costume , History, Theater , England , Costume, Shakespeare, William, , Costume

Open -air game 'Cortez', a first name part of the Utrecht Student Festivities

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, photo file 'A'. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth

Paris Theatre: Clementine Schmidt. J. Émile Tourtin, photographer (French, active Midi and Paris, France 1880s) December 1876 An advertising flyer for Paris Theatre performer Clementine Schmidt, in the role of Louise the Countess of Lerins, with a photograph of a seated woman holding a book.

Dan Frohman 'Russian Honeymoon' Madison Sq. Theatre

Merchanics Fair, Fanueil Hall. Deloss Barnum (American, 1825 - 1873)

Elsevier photo collection. Frits van Haarlem, former theater manufacturer "variétékoning" Circus Carré wife garden Wiesbaden. 1926. Germany, Wiesbaden

Theater group portrait of five women in oriental costumes. The women are sitting on and in a circular recess with barey legs

Kroning van Inês de Castro, Charles Rochussen, 1824 - 1894 print Scene from a play about the life of Inês de Castro, mistress by Peter van Portugal. Inês is crowned by the king. There are kneeling figures all around. paper. coronation of a ruler

Photo reproduction of a print of a scene from Romeo and Julia by William Shakespeare; Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 3. You can see the dying of Julia.

World's peace jubilee, 1872. Boston coliseum. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Peace movements

Ruy Blas Acta 5, scene 3

Tangeelen from the Gentile World. Leaf with 4 performances of foreign peoples and scenes. A Japanese house, Sultan Beck and his family, melting iron on Madagascar and a village on Madagascar. Under every image a caption.

Theatrical representation of two fighting men in historic costumes ..

Photo production from a print to a painting by Francis Wheatley, representing a scene from the tamed feeks by William Shakespeare, Anonymous, c. 1873 - In or Before 1883 photomechanical print paper theatre, theatrical performance

Children's party ..

Scene in salon: ballet ..

Exposition Universelle (World Fair) Paris, 1900; The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The style that was universally present in the Exposition was Art Nouveau. The fair, visited by nearly 50 million, displayed many technological innovations; black and white photograph of a performance by Mlle. Cleo de Merode in an Indochinese theatre company.

A Belle's Stratagem. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Cowley, Hannah, 1743-1809. Belle's stratagem

Chick Turner's Cabaret dancer: Act II. 1937 - 1937. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans , Performing arts, African Americans , Theater, African American theater, African Americans in the performing arts, Plays, Theatrical productions, The Case of Philip Lawrence

Card Party, No. 1.. New York Stereoscopic Company

Bliej Kultury unknown

World's peace jubilee, 1872. Boston coliseum. 1872. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Peace movements

Salon scene with dancers. Charles Gaudin Ch. G. (French, active 1860s)

Photograph of an award ceremony at the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris, captured by Adolphe Block on albumin paper in stereo format.

View of audience filling the coliseum. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1869 - 1872. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Massachusetts, Boston (Mass.), Peace movements, Interiors, Arenas

The laughing audience (or a pleased audience) , Food vendors, Theater audiences, Seduction. William Hogarth (1697-1764). Prints

Etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki illustrating a 1783 theater calendar with scenes from Schiller's play 'The Robbers', showing characters, stage setting, and dramatic action, produced in 1782.

Bliżej Kultury unknown

View of the death of Benedikt Fontana during the Calven-Feier in Chur, Lienhard & Salzborn, c. 1898 - in or before 1899 photomechanical print Put paper collotype group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. dying. mountains

Scene from the staging of the comedy `Cyrano de Bergerac` by Edmond Rostand at the Bagatela Theatre in Warsaw, as performed by the Łódź company of Michał Wołowski. Scene from the third act; performing: as Roxane - Maria Pankiewicz, as Cyrano - Józef Sosno. Ryffert, Władysław i S-ka (Warszawa ; zakład fotograficzny ; 1899-), photo studio

Scene from unidentified play

, Volksprater - Jantschtheater and Restoration Eisvogel, postcard, Carl Karl Ledermann jun, Producer

Tuileries - Apollo show. Apollo show, Tuileries Palace, 1st arrondissement, Paris. Tuileries Palace. Apollo show. Paris (IER ARR.). Anonymous photography. Transparent stereoscopic view colored on albuminum paper.

Robt Webb, musician in Gartland's Band. March 1903. Julius M. Wendt (American, active 1900s - 1910s)

View of a Wajangtheater in the Dutch East Indies, Anonymous, c. 1883 - in or before 1894 photomechanical print Dutch East Indies Haarlem paper collotype theatre, theatrical performance. puppet

Clown in the circus Carré ring. .

Theatrical performance of the work at a hairdresser, Anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880 stereograph France cardboard. photographic support albumen print barber, barbershop Paris

Love Laughs at Danger.. London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890)

Gender group Cinematographic reconstruction of Champs-Elys�es: group of genre, 1860-1865.

Poster for "A Night Out". Unknown maker, French

Genrescene with in the background 'Sketches for the Steoscope by A. Silvester', Alfred Silvester, 1850 - 1864 stereograph London cardboard. paper albumen print advertising England

Brussels, Dupont, Sigling, Premier groupe des interprètes du Crépuscule des dieux, Four portraits of actors from a performance of Götterdämmerung, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, Le deuxième groupe le même format., height 145 mm, width 107 mm, photographer, 1897 - 1902, paper, collotype, photoprint, cliché maker

The cast performing the merry go-round scene in the stage production School Days as published in The Standard and Vanity Fair, October 16, 1908. 1908. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Scrapbooks. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Edwards, Gus, 1879-1945, Vaudeville

Photo production of a performance by Little Red Riding Hood, Anonymous, 1855 - 1885 Photograph. visit card paper. cardboard albumen print tales and fairy tales: Little Red Riding-hood

Les Truas, in "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Paul Foucher, according to the novel by Victor Hugo, at the Théâtre des Nations (today theater of the city). Paris (ivème arr.), June 7, 1879. Tax on albumin paper. Photography by Etienne Carjat (1828-1906). Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 76324-14 French actor, theatral attitude, French comedian, scene costume, foot portrait, 19th XIX 19th 19th 19th century

Toneel performance in the open air, Michel Mourot, After Adriaen van Ostade, 1840 - 1843 print There are two men on stage. The audience watches. A church in the background. The performance, in an oval, is caught in a list. In the corners of the list of objects including a jug, a trumpet and a gun. The Hague paper actor (on the stage). theatre (building) - AA - open-air performances

Students of Schule Schloss Salem perform a play, c. 1929 photograph Part of Fotoalbum by Schule Schloss Salem. Salem photographic support gelatin silver print education. group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. automobile Salem

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