Vintage Entertainment Events

Photos documenting live performances and gatherings from the mid-20th century, highlighting audience engagement and celebratory atmospheres.

Anefo photo collection. 55th anniversary HBS- Holey The Hague. October 18, 1948

Anefo photo collection. Agricultural exhibition. Opening with a choir. August 25, 1948

Cheek to cheek technique, as demonstrated by Milton Mitchell and partner at the Jitterbug Jamboree in Sydney Town Hall last night. March 3, 1944.

U.S. Arena Stage Theater Exhibit. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Opening "Wonderland" in RAI building by Mayor Dailly. July 15, 1953

Anefo photo collection. Carnival mood Soestdijk Visit Limburgers princess Beatrix on stage. September 2, 1953. Soestdijk, Utrecht

Only at the finale, when all the company lines up, does Mrs. Sorlie ever appear on the stage. Then she is presented by partner le Brun and she makes a formal bow to her patrons. March 12, 1952.

Anefo photo collection. "Together from" New Snip and Snap Revue; Mieke Telkamp and Donald Jones. June 15, 1964

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Lyric Theatre tonight to see "The Little Hut".The crowd watch Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh leave after the show.Not enough of this... in this happy picture the Princess has just seen a play, the little hut, at London lyric theatre. But it was not like this in Canada. October 03, 1951.

Anefo photo collection. Evening party 75 years of cheese market Bodegraven. September 10, 1957. Bodegraven

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Performance Ubrica Cabaret. Performance of the Ubrica Cabaret U-Brigade cabaret in the Schouwburg in Batavia. October 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Cooking competition BK Enamel. May 21, 1957

Vintage Photograph. Conductor rehearsing group of teenagers. Frame 1

Anefo photo collection. Rock and Roll party Kras Amsterdam. February 3, 1957. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

US Fulbright Dance, Cite Universitaire. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. RAI building Textile Fair Volendam and Walcheren at the fair. January 23, 1956. Noord-Holland, Volendam, Walcheren

Queen Elizabeth II - Dancing - British Royalty. June 02, 1953. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

ENSA Concert in the Aldwych London Underground Station during World War II Date: 9th October 1940

Americanization program, Eufaula, Oklahoma. These are the performers 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Eufaula, Oklahoma , McIntosh County

Untitled, New Zealand, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Anefo photo collection. Generale rehearsal lustrum game Xerxes. USC. July 2, 1956. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Dolls Theater du Soleil drawn Tropenmuseum Amsterdam. 16 June 1986. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Rock and Roll party Kras Amsterdam. February 3, 1957. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Poll photo collection. Israel: Kirjat Hole (Kiryat Gat). Dance evening with live music in the Avia hotel. undated. Israel, Kirjat Hole

U.S. Arena Stage Theater Exhibit. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Fifty anniversary singing association Cecilia. January 20, 1947

Anefo photo collection. Book "bright" of Schrjver Max Heymans presented in the new De La Mar Theater in Amsterdam. Books, theaters. November 3, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the textile grossiers fair "textile" for 11,000,000 d Commission of the Queen in North Holland Dr. M. J. Prinsen. February 1, 1960. Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Nijkerk singing competition. July 18, 1946. Nijkerk

Anefo photo collection. USC. July 8, 1956

Anefo photo collection. Carnival Ball Xerxes Rotterdam. March 1, 1954. Rotterdam, South Holland

Boardleben Milwaukee. Bircle safe. Fixed room with music chapel

Anefo photo collection. USC. July 8, 1956

Jitterbug dance. A dance popularized in the United states and spread by American soldiers and sailors around the world during the Second world war. Pictured here the young danish couple John Engklint and Margit Nielsen when dancing the Jitterbug dance 1948 during a competition dance event. Photo: Kristoffersson ref AM59-4

Anefo photo collection. Vossius Gymnasium in Amsterdam. General rehearsal opera. November 1, 1951. Amsterdam

Cadiz Carnivals- 1992.

Anefo photo collection. Opening Diemer Ir. Otten in Switzerland. March 11, 1949. Switzerland

Radio artists, PBS, Palestine Broadcasting Service, Jerusalem. 1936, Jerusalem

Television of Operation. May 5, 1949. (Photo by Philips Electrical Industries of Australia Pty. Limited.)

10/31/1955. Comedy by José Luis Sampedro "A place to live".

01/04/1919. Madrid. At the Palace-Hotel. Contestants at the dance organized by the young element of the commercial union circle.

Anefo photo collection. Garden of Europe from Carol Briels, the Weener Congress dances dressed in colorful costumes. August 27, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Doorman-Cabaret. September 23, 1947

Anefo photo collection. Action open the village. Presenter Mies Bouwman in the marathon broadcast 'Open the village'. November 26, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Opening KLM Bus station Amsterdam. September 28, 1953. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. unknown . Lustrum celebration "John Tomes" in Utrecht. November 8, 1957. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Catherine Valente Show, recording in the RAI. June 6, 1967

Betting Ring at Melbourne Show Ground where the big ***** Trotting Championships will be decided this month. February 10, 1950.

10/11/1926. Madrid. In the house of "black and white" and ABC. The Choirs of the Galician center of this Court, during the visit they made yesterday to the editorial office and Spanish press workshops.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Mrs. Snijders dressed as Surinamese dances on the MS. Nestor on the way to Suriname. October 1, 1955

Anefo photo collection. Fanny Blankers-Koen in the Cineac in Amsterdam. August 16, 1948. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Children's show. 1938. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Education, African Americans , Education, Performances

Anefo photo collection. Generale rehearsal lustrum game Xerxes. USC. July 2, 1956. Utrecht

Sketch in the swimming pool ...

A party ball, February 3, 1940, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

US Fulbright Dance, Cite Universitaire. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Dancers with masks on a tiled floor during a slamatan in a pendopo. November 25, 1947. Indonesia, Madura, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Speedbeker (presumably) offered to the Uline Director, Mr Ter Wolbeek, by the 1 April Committee of the Savings Bank for the City of Amsterdam. Scottish dance, executed on the occasion of the ceremony. October 27, 1965. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. "Miss Disc" chosen in City Theater Amsterdam. Bernadette Walenkamp Miss Disc. December 16, 1969

Christmas (Parties) - Christmas. July 07, 1947.

Girlie show, carnival, Brownsville, Texas 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Anefo photo collection. First Dutch show academy gives Spanish dance lessons. March 19, 1962

Concert at the railway station.

Anefo photo collection. Preparation Flower parade Aalsmeer, car in auction hall / negagent strip. September 3, 1971. Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0902. 1956

Anefo photo collection. Assignment De Gelderlander: Preparation book ball. March 16, 1987

Anefo photo collection. Celebration Carnival by Justus van Maurik in Bellevue entry of Prince Carnival. 11 February 1961

Elsevier photo collection. Flora Theater, performance operetta "Trotsche Thea" this, POLDI ReIFF performs wife return India.15. Leon Boedels, Arnold Schottanus, Cor Smit, Weerdenburg, Marga Graf, Luigie Difraen, Agatha Reiff-Pordon POLDI ReIFF. 1928. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Scene of the Typical dance called the Wine Gardens. Seville 1902.

Anefo photo collection. Vara country day in mountain and forest. Performance by Josephine Baker. June 25, 1961

Poll photo collection. Nightlife in Paris. Guests in Dancing Balajo. undated. France Paris

MARILYN MONROE in LADIES OF THE CHORUS (1948), directed by PHIL KARLSON.

Anefo photo collection. Avros dance tournament in the Kurhaus in Scheveningen overview of the participants. 13 February 1960. Scheveningen, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Gijsbrecht van Aemstel in new style, the entrance to Thomasvaer (Wim van der Brink) and Pieternel (Nel Koppen) on a provousting. January 1, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Anti-Christmas celebration in Paradiso. December 24, 1969

Learning by Acting- Education Through Theatre For Evacuees at a 'camp School', Marchant's Hill, Hindhead, Surrey, 1943 Music teacher Arthur Shuttleworth (back to camera) leads the choir (right) and cast (on stage in the background) in a selection of traditional English songs, to conclude the play about Elizabethan England which they have put on in the recreation hall at Marchant's Hill School, Hindhead. The children have been evacuated from East Ham and all have contributed to the performance in some way. Clearly visible on stage, as Queen Elizabeth I, is 13 year old Mavis Clode.

Beauties on Parade. The antics of performers amused these bathing beauties as they paraded on a decorated float at the Empire Games carnival in Auckland during during the week-end. January 31, 1950. (Photo by W. Charles Bergman)

Players of Spanish-American show. Penasco, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Penasco, New Mexico , Taos County

Anefo photo collection. Anti-Christmas in Paradiso. December 23, 1969

Anefo photo collection. Assignment SHV St. Nicolaas at Makro. November 30, 1968

Anefo photo collection. 80th anniversary of the National Academy of Visual Arts. December 22, 1950

Anefo photo collection. AVSV Ball evening. November 7, 1952

Boardleben Milwaukee. Bircle safe. Fixed room with music chapel

Anefo photo collection. Rock and Roll party Kras Amsterdam. February 3, 1957. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Soul group "The Free" gives show in Amsterdam club 67 Freelates from The Free. February 19, 1969

El Escorial (Madrid), 07/24/1908. More than seven hundred people from the summer colony of El Escorial attended the dance given to them at the Reina Victoria Hotel by the Franco-Spanish Hotel Society.

Photograph of Unknown Female Performer on Stage.

Mr. Churchill Back At School -- Mr. Winston Churchill went back to his old school, Harrow, to-night to participate in a sing-song.Boys of Harrow school cheer their "old boy", the British Prime Minister, as he leaves after his visit for to-night's "sing-song". December 7, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).

Anefo photo collection. Televizier command. November 4, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Seth Gaaikema rehearses in Carré for his show Elf Leefgassingen: Seth Gaaikema and employees. November 6, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Outdoor game in Joka. Pagan papuas thrills the idols to rain. February 1955. New Guinea

Anefo photo collection. International Christmas session in the RK Church "The grape" in Amsterdam. January 1, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

WE, THE WOMEN (1953) -Original title: SIAMO DONNE-, directed by LUCHINO VISCONTI, ROBERTO ROSSELLINI, GIANNI FRANCIOLINI and ALFREDO GUARINI.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. party evening Queen's Day hunting club Hollandia officially polonaise. April 30, 1955. Hollandia, Guinea

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana is present at the film premiere 'the largest hours' in the Euro Cinema in The Hague. On the right next to Juliana The English ambassador Sir isham Peter Garran. They look at a bagpipe player. November 25, 1964. The Hague, South Holland

Penny Movies at the South Louisiana State Fair, Classic Photography

Anefo photo collection. Amsterdam youth at the Circus Mikkenie. October 22, 1948

10/12/1962. With spring, a new system of multiple drums for the National Lottery draws debuts. The first of these raffles was carried out by the children of the San Ildefonso school, as is traditional, and with the collaboration of a group of young nurses from the Red Cross, at the Spanish Theater in Madrid.

Scene from stage production The Big Little Princess. 1903. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Smith, Edgar, 1857-1938. Big little princess, Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. Little princess , Stage adaptations

The Crosby Quintet (left to right) Dennis, 15, Bing, Philip, 15, Gary 16, and Lindsay, 11, record at the Walt Disney Studio for the Disney all-cartoon feature Ichabod and Mr Toad. Bing does all the voices, & sings three songs in the film. November 13, 1949.

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