Historical Circus Performers

Vintage portraits of dancers and circus performers from the 19th century, showcasing costumes and poses in sepia tones, evoking a sense of nostalgia.

Adolph Bolm in Spanish guise. 1924. Photographs. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Dancers , 20th century, Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951

ENTR'ACTE (1924), directed by RENE CLAIR.

Maria Babanova in the Play 'A Profitable Position' by A. Ostrovsky by Russian Photographer /The State Central A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow/1923/Photograph/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre

The Witch Girl (cinema 1915). 1914. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Full dress rehearsal to find the 'deb' for the Royal Garden Party. News cutting from Illustrated.

A 1912 matt-albumin stereo photograph by Frédéric Boissonnas depicting dancers, showing their poses, costumes, and arrangement in the scene.

Film still from 'Bolero' starring George Raft, Sally Rand, William Frawley, and Carole Lombard.

Adrià Gual / Fotografía de escena, actores. Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

MLLE MUSIDORA Music hall artiste at the Folies-Bergere, Paris Date: 1914

Loie Fuller Dancing. Artist: Samuel Joshua Beckett (British, Shadwell, Stepney London 1870-1940 Bournemouth). Dimensions: 7.7 x 10.2 cm (3 1/16 x 4 in.). Date: ca. 1900.The American dancer Loie Fuller (1862-1928) conquered Paris on her opening night at the Folies-Bergère on November 5, 1892. Manipulating with bamboo sticks an immense skirt made of over a hundred yards of translucent, iridescent silk, the dancer evoked organic forms --butterflies, flowers, and flames--in perpetual metamorphosis through a play of colored lights. Loie Fuller's innovative lighting effects, some of which she patented, transformed her dances into enthralling syntheses of movement, color, and music, in which the dancer herself all but vanished. Artists and writers of the 1890s praised her art as an aesthetic breakthrough, and the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who saw her perform in 1893, wrote in his essay on her that her dance was "the theatrical form of poetry par excellence." Immensely popular, sh

The latest additional tango step, imported from the Wild West but performed here on stage in Paris, which combines the 'high kick' of the ballet with the approximation of partnership in the tango.The gentleman looks understandably apprehensive as his partner performs a handstand. 1913

Amalie Materna (1844-1918) as Brünnhilde in Opera Der Ring des Nibelungen by R. Wagner, Anonymous

Elsevier photo collection. Cilli Wang "The cheerful acrobaties". 1947

Geraldine Ulmar as "Yum-Yum" in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company stage production The Mikado (Gilbert And Sullivan).. 1885 - 1890. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado, Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, Operas & operettas

The ring toss / Clarence H. White. - digital file from original photograph | Library of Congress

01/31/1921. The theater in Germany. The notable artist Tilla Durieux is the protagonist of Ricardo Strauss' new work, "The Legend of Joseph." Photo: Becker & Maass -.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN in LIMELIGHT (1952), directed by CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

Rita Sacchetto, born Margaritha Sacchetto, (1880-1959) - German dancer and actress - pictured here with a remarkable long-necked stringed instrument and dressed as Pierrot. Date: circa 1910

Albumin photograph showing actors with hat and stick, highlighting props, posture, and costume, framed in a small passe-partout for visit format.

Italian actor Armando Falconi playing Falstaff, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLVIII, No 8, February 20, 1921.

DOLLY SISTERS Jenny and Rosie, American stage performers Date: 1922

Queen of Poetical Dancers - Ruth St Denis in Hindoo Dances is causing a sensation - A Broadway Play, circa 1910

CHRISTOPHER LEE in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU (1966).

Characters, customs and traditions of the Japanese, actor during a theatrical performance. Japan. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Aleksander Bandrowski as a title in the staging of the opera of Ignacy Jan Paderewski "Manru" at the City Theater in Lviv in 1901; Mazur, Dawid ( -1916); 1901 (1901-00-00-1901-00-00);Bandrowski, Aleksander (1860-1913), Bandrowski, Aleksander (1860-1913)-iconography, Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941)-music, Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941). Manru, Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915) - collection, city theater (Lviv), productions, theater costumes, opera (artist), portraits, men's portraits, theater (artist), singers

Scene from the Ballet Swan Lake, Mariinsky Theatre. 1895, Anonymous

Edmund Breese in "The Scarecrow"

Elsevier photo collection. Cilli Wang "The cheerful acrobaties". 1947

E. H. Sothern in a horse acting scene, circa 1916

Jeanne, actress at the already theater already ". Photography of Vaurie & Cie. Colorful stereoscopic view, on albumin paper. Between 1860 and 1900. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. 99953-16 Woman, portrait, stereo, stereo view, stereoscopic view

Publicity photograph of Vaudeville performers John Kelly and Thomas J. Ryan as published in unknown periodical.. 1900 - 1910. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Clippings. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Vaudeville, Kelly, John T., 1855-1922

Motion Picture Box

Shifsheser: familyen drame in 3 aen mi a prolog un epilog Stepsisters שטיפשוועסטער פראגראמקע. Freiman, Louis, 1891-1967. Theater programs, Programs, Photographs, Portraits, Plans. 1933. Dorot Jewish Division. Jewish arts, Yiddish drama, Theater, Yiddish

'Mlle. Marthe Regnier, role de Jacqueline. - La Passerelle. - Vaudeville', 1904. Creator: Unknown.

Program (dated 5/28/1951) for The King and I. Programs. 1951-05-28. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. King and I

Oberamergau , Actors, Passionstheater Oberammergau Oberammergau, Germany, Alexandre Benois Collection

Eddie Foy as Sister Anne in Mr. Bluebeard. Clippings. 1903. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Foy, Eddie, 1856-1928, Elephants

John Nevil Maskelyne performs a 'spirit cabinet illusion', c1910. 'It is easy to stand up, even when tied, and to put an article through the opening with the mouth'. John Nevil Maskelyne took up a challenge by Sir Hiram Maxim to reproduce a trick originally performed by the Davenport brothers, fraudulent spiritualists from America, and by an imitator of theirs, a Mr Fay. Maskelyne (1839-1917) was a British stage magician, escapologist, paranormal investigator and inventor of the pay toilet. From "Mr. Maskelyne's Reply to Sir Hiram Maxim", published in "The Strand Magazine, an il

Advertisement for a variety show, a white and a black dancer, 1920s, Germany, Europe

Portrait of Edward Reszke (1853-1917), Piwak, in a stage costume, in the role of MEFIST at the "Faust" opera of Charles Gount at the Grand Theater in Warsaw; Mieczkowski, Jan (Warsaw; photographic Zak 1893 (1893-00-00-1893-00-00);Gounod, Charles (1818-1893). Faust, Mephisto (lit.), Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-collection, Reszke, Edward (1853-1917), Reszke, Edward (1853-1917)-iconography, guitars, musical instruments, theater costumes, opera (artist .), portraits, men's portraits, theater (artist), singers

Gus Smith and Louis Sharp as Forty-Four and Shine Sommers. 1936 - 1936. 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, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Turpentine

Edward C. Compton 1854-1918, English actor and director, who specialized on tours by the English provinces with pieces by Shakespeare, Sheridan and Goldsmith. Compton as a dromio of Syracus in the comedy of William Shakespeare's trials. Heliogravure, approx. 1895., historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not stated

Franz Mayer, goldsmith at the Macart Festival , Julius Gertinger -, photographer

Bennett Sisters

Image of Iocaste, played by J.S. Royaards, with two servants in the play Oedipus Rex of Sophocles.n.b, performed by students from the Utrecht Student Corps. The premiere took place on April 11, 1891 in the Schouwburg (Vredenburg) in Utrecht.

Harrigan and Hart. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Harrigan & Hart, Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911, Hart, Tony, 1855-1891

Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co. Theatre poster; Roeber and Crane Bros Vaudeville-Athletic Co. c1898. Caption: The waiter and the maid, Ford and Dot West, comedy sketch artists.

Group of artists performing as fashion and stage employees in the operetta `The Merry Widow` by Franza Lehár at the Theatre an der Wien, Vienna, 1906. unknown, publisher

Madrid, 1889. Julián Gayarre in "The Pearl Fishers", by Bizet, at the Teatro Real.

Advertisement for Giraudel's Throat Pastilles. Dated 19th century

Publicity photos of (left) Mme. Adeline Dudley as the Sorrowful Mother and Mme. Vera Sergine in the stage production The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. The Theatre Magazine, July 1911, pg. 6. 1911. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Scrapbooks. Billy Rose Theatre Division

The Prayer of a Horse (Cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

The Three Monkeys. 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, New Lafayette Theatre

Granada, Retrato de un grupo flamenco.

Tamara Karsavina in the Ballet The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu) by I. Stravinsky, Anonymous

LUISA TETRAZZINI She performed in opera houses all over the world and is seen here recording a peformance. Date: 1871 - 1940

1917 The Graphic carries a photo feature on the play Chu Chin Chow

HERMIONE GINGOLD in AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1956), directed by MICHAEL ANDERSON.

Mr. and Mrs. Botrel performing by the little finger

In Old Mexico , Guitars, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

The Pom Pom Pierrots, entertainers of wounded soldiers. The troupe was formed expressly for the voluntary entertainment of convalescent and wounded soldiers in hospitals, and also of soldiers in various camps and barracks. Date: 1915

Mime about to eat a phallic-like object. Unknown maker, French

Elsevier photo collection. Bariton Jos Orelio. paljas "I pagliacci". 1917

Don Quijote (cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Card Number 26, Miss Elton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes 1880s Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-1), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the first subset, N145-1. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.. Card Number 26, Miss Elton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. 1880s. Albumen photograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

The wedding - digital file from original | Library of Congress

Sir George Robey (1869 1954), English music hall comedian and singer. Here dressed as Dame Trot, in the Panto-Land: Hipprodrome Leads. Date: 1922

'May Blossom' Madison Square Theatre

The daegeum is a large bamboo flute, a transverse flute used in traditional Korean music. It is specific to Korea as it is not found in China nor in Japan. At one-third of the distance from the end of this flute is a hole called Chong, which is covered with a thin membrane taken from a reed. This fibre vibrates and produces a blaring sound. It is used in court, aristocratic, and folk music, as well as in contemporary classical music, popular music, and film scores.

The dancer Ellinor Tordis as Maria, Anton Josef also, Antios Trka -, photographer

Original Film Title: THE BUCCANEER. English Title: THE BUCCANEER. Film Director: ANTHONY QUINN. Year: 1958. Stars: CHARLTON HESTON.

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