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Vintage photographs capturing musical performances, congress gatherings, and cultural celebrations from various eras.

Gelatin silver print - Group portrait of the Artisans Canadien Français brass band, Montreal, Quebec, 1900-1910

Dancing company in Salon, Anonymous, 1855 - 1875 tissue stereograph photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / perforating ball, formal dance

The Houston Stage Canteen, Auditorium Hotel, Houston, Texas. Everything free to all enlisted men, sponsored by Houston Little Theatre, professional show people, and civic minded Houstonians. Dancing, entertainment, and refreshments , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Madrid, 10/29/1933. Comedy Theatre. First act of Spanish Falange. Appearance of the presidency during the founding ceremony.

The Country Parson (cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Hollywood, Los Angeles (United States), February 1929. In the «Charlot» studio: filming of the film «City Lights». In the image, Charlot (x) tells jokes over the loudspeaker during a break.

05/06/1919. Madrid. In the Center theater. A scene from the Operetta, by Fernández de la Puente and maestro Luna, "la Mecanófraga", Premiered last night.

04/01/1923. Madrid. In the Novedades theater. A scene from the Operetta, "Uncle Sam's Daughters", the work of our editorial colleagues Palacio Valdés and Aracil, music by Maestros Mugüerza and sailing.

LAURENCE OLIVIER in SPARTACUS (1960), directed by STANLEY KUBRICK.

05/21/1919. Madrid. In the Apollo theater. At the Sainete festival. 1.-Artists of the Infanta Isabel who represented "pepa la Frescachona". 2.-Artists from Lara who premiered Casero's sainete, "Verbena night". 3.-Ramón Peña and Julita Fons in the duo De "la Mecanófraga".

Group portrait of a company in costumes with musical instruments, presumably French amateur theater players. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of a family, Distillery Delizy & Doakau Fils, the army and sights in France.

Scene from unidentified play

First Grade Rhythm Band Performs. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

THE REAL GLORY (1939), directed by HENRY HATHAWAY.

Old Heidelberg (Cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

A scene from the play 'What happened to Jonas', photo agency Stevens, 1936 photograph Album magazine with a photo of a scene from the performance of the play 'What Jonas happened to' on February 22, 1936. A group of women and men on stage. Part of the photo album 'Annual parties of the Corps M.T.S. in Haarlem '. Haarlem photographic support. paper gelatin silver print vocational education, e.g.: junior technical school. students' organization. theatre, theatrical performance Haarlem

The Rex Float, Mardi Gras Carnival, New Orleans, La still image. Postcards. 1913 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Carnival , Louisiana , New Orleans, Floats (Parades) , Louisiana , New Orleans

Elsevier photo collection. Rehearsal music library Amsterdam opera "Zauberflöte" Mozart De Nederlandsche Opera Foundation. Opera throughout leadership John Den Hertog (behind piano). November 1939. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Group portrait of European men and women dressed in costumes for a theatrical production of Lalla Rookh. They pose on a stage with painted backdrops and set behind them, dressed in a variety of orientalist and medieval costumes. Lalla Rookh is a romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. Caption reads: Lalla Rookh.

Concert in Ormody's home in Budapest, 1880, historical woodcut, Hungary, Europe

07/31/1918. The summer in El Escorial. Main Performers of the Comedy "Jesus, Joseph and Mary", Performed in the theater of the Universidad de lo Pp. Agustinos.

Bliżej Kultury unknown

Film set during the filming of a Silent era film. Circa 1925

Birthday Party Se.Majesty at armesgr.kmdo.erzh.karl. 18.8. .

The Gallery of the R'hira Steam Bath during a concert - Algiers, Algeria. Date: circa 1907

Performance between shows at Sells Floto Circus, 1920's

04/03/1920. Madrid. In the Infanta Isabel theater. A scene from the toy Comico in Two Acts by García Alvarez. "the tragedy of the Vineyard" Premiered last night.

Groepsportret Eerste Europese Damesorkest; First European Ladies Orchestra.

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Emil Młynarski, from the Concert Room of the Philharmonic. Kowalski, Leonard (-1917), photographer

Elsevier photo collection. Scenes plays united stage. Play "The Mary Dugan's process" carried united stage. Actress Nel Stants middle chair .. 1928. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Pinehaven Progressive Association Ball, October 14, 1956, 14 October 1946, New Zealand, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Silver Slipper Casino - Reno, Nevada, USA. Gamers taking on the roulette wheel and betting against the house in Blackjack. Date: circa 1950s

, folk cheese - folk amusement - Prater showcase, Rudolf Lechner -, photographer

Food Administration - Anti-Waste Campaign - War savings stamps carnival, polo grounds, New York. Section of the "Elijah" chorus singing 1918

January 14, 1917. A concert for the Blind. Miss Magdalena Molina at the Artistic Evening held yesterday by the Spanish Blind and Semi-Blind Association at the Hijos de Madrid center.

Red Lake High School Band. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1964-. Photographs

Group portrait of the Utrecht Stedelijk Orkest (U.S.O.) under the leadership of Wouter Hutschenruyter in the Great Hall of Tivoli (Park Tivoli, Kruisstraat) in Utrecht.n.b. In 1965 the name was changed in Utrechts Symphonie Orkest.

BRIDE TO BE (1975) -Original title: PEPITA JIMENEZ-, directed by RAFAEL MORENO ALBA.

Photograph by Rudolf Lechner showing the performance of Calderons 'Fame of Austria' by the Leo Association in the Vienna City Hall court, dated 30 May 1898, printed in a glossy collection on a box.

12/31/1934. Artistic Festival at the municipal theater of Las Palmas.

'Trooping the Colour Pageantry', 1937. Artist: Unknown.

Publicity photograph of Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys for the Keystone Company as published in Moving Picture World, October 23, 1915. 1915. Locke, Robinson, 1856-1920. Scrapbooks. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Foy, Eddie, 1856-1928

Performance of the English music corps of the Salvation Army, at the Lucas Bolwerk in Utrecht.

T Methodios and his Celebrated Roumanian Orchestra at.... Margate! Date: circa 1920

11/11/1919. Madrid. At the Zarzuela theater. A scene from the Work, by Ferraz Revenga, music by maestro Lloret, "little night of Saint John", Premiered last night.

Three Arts Club booth, Actors fund fair

Founding committee of the Société musicale indépendente 1909. Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) and Jean Roger-Ducasse (1873-1954), French composers, at the piano, accompanied, behind them, by Louis Aubert, Maurice Ravel, A.Z. Mathot, Andre Caplet, Charles Koechlin, Emile Vuillermoz and Jean Hure, from left to right.

GOLDEN OLDIES (EV007191_H)

A nice scene: the ring stitches, a really old Dutch entertainment that is only rarely missing during such festivities!

Singing to patients at a London hospital, c1901 (1903). Artist: EH Harnock.

A. M. Palmer's company in 'Alabama'

Ward & Hudson Maxim

07/31/1918. At the Queen Victoria Theater in Madrid. The artists of the operetta company who will soon resume their work at the Carrera de San Jerónimo theater.

Old Heidelberg (Cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Scene from the play Musotte by Jacques Normand in the Théâtre du Gymnase, Paul Boyer (1861-1908), 1891 photograph Paris paper. cardboard albumen print theatre, theatrical performance Gymnasium

Česke kvartetto Varšavské filharmonie Portrait of members of the Czech string quartet at the Warsaw Philharmonica on 24 VIII 1903 - post card with autographs of the musicians. unknown, photographer, Lantner, Boh. (fl. ca 1903), publisher

Heart of the war cinema in Pomorzany.

Photograph by Rudolf Lechner showing the performance of Calderón's play 'Fame of Austria' at the Vienna City Hall on May 30, 1898, organized by the Leo Association, capturing stage, actors, and audience.

Gelatin silver print - Harmonie Ste-Cécile concert band of the Académie du Sacré-Coeur, Grand-Mère, Quebec, 1904-1918

Granada. Danza de jitanos por el Capitán Juan Amaya.

Danza de Gitanos por el Capitán Juan Amaya.

Elsevier photo collection. Fraction play "The club 't feeling' Amsterdam Student's theater association. 1923. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

The railway music choir in Västervik.

On Vredenburg a music company brings the mood in it. The One-Steps and Bostons are a bit in contrast to the Egyptian motifs that people discern all around!

Old Heidelberg (Cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Circus: Foamy, Hippodrome, to Circus: Foamy, Hippodrome, around 1880.

A notable group in 'Watch Your Step' at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Left to right: Mrs. Vernon Castle, Vernon Castle, Frank Tinney, Elizabeth Brice, Charles King, Sallie Fisher, Harry Kelly, and Elizabeth Murray.. Clippings, Programs. 1915. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Photograph of Poster advertising the staging of Giuseppe Verdis opera `Aida` at the Teramo in the Summer season of 1903, with photographic portraits of conductor Vincenzo Lombardi and singers, performing the main roles: Maria Grisi, Francesco Albiach, Ma???????????????????. unknown, photographer

The Henrietta: Act 3. "Damn Henrietta". Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908. Theater programs. 1888. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Union Square Theatre

Recording a man playing the piano using Edison's improved model phonograph. Date: 1891

Historical photo, music group consisting only of men, ca. 1920

Agamemnon - Greek play at Harvard, 1906 , Open-air theatrical productions, Stadiums. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

The Choice Artists and musicians directed by the Amiable Band Leader Mr Lange, Constantinople. Date: 1905

Chorus Girls selling tickets

Image of a group of players in the play Oedipus Rex of Sophocles.n.b, performed by students of the Utrecht Student Corps. The premiere took place on April 11, 1891 in the Schouwburg (Vredenburg) in Utrecht.

Scherbaums Concert - EnsembleCarlsbad. Scherbaum's concert ensemble

The Lavenham Salvation Army Band, Suffolk Date: circa 1907

Old Heidelberg (Cinema 1915). 1915. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division

Image of a scene from the second company of Henri Ghéon's play 'The Holy who did not want his saint', staged in the Schouwburg (Vredenburg) in Utrecht on the occasion of the 7th Lustrum of the Utrecht Student Association Veritas.

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