Vintage Entertainment Posters

Historic promotional materials highlighting theatrical performances, emphasizing the art and culture of past eras.

'Abdulla's Theatre Guide: Detective Drama - The Abdulla Fiend', 1939. Artist: Unknown.

F'luette for life!

La Musique populaire, Vol. 3, no. 142. text. Periodicals. 1884-07-03. Music Division. Music

Primrose and West's Minstrels/Abachi & Masaud/Billy Van , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

RETANA , ALVARO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. CARTEL DE PROPAGANDA DE SU LIBRO SOBRE LAS ESTRELLAS DEL CUPLE.

Odeon National Theater Subscription to the classic evenings of Mondays and Fridays, Fourth year 1890-1891 Eugene-Samuel Grasset (1845-1917). Advertising poster for subscriptions to classic evenings of the Odeon National Theater. Paris (old arr.). Color lithography. 1890.

Prof. Adolf Nichols and orchestra , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The mascot , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The planter's wife , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

La Musique populaire, Vol. 3, no. 126. text. Periodicals. 1884-03-13. Music Division. Music

'Abdulla's Theatre Guide: Detective Drama - The Abdulla Fiend', 1939. Artist: Unknown.

May and Lord Hope with Hope Diamond "Bad dream". Clippings. 1947-03-30. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Yohe, May, 1869-1938

Wedding music ,

The crust of society the original version of the the famous play-John Stetson's Company of Players , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The black hussar , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The Cadenza, Vol. 9, no. 10. text. Periodicals. 1903-06. Music Division. Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin

A brilliant piece for bass and tenor, bedografia z serii the good musical heads w: the charivari Aubert et Cie (Fl. CA 1840 1860), Bouchot

The Gorman's High Class Minstrels , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Der prayz fun liebe: drama in 4 aen, fun Y. Zoloaresi, oyfgefihr fun Herr Mas Rosenhal, muzi fun Yozef Rumshinsi Price of love פרייז פון ליעבע פראגראמקע. Zlatarewski, I., 1875-1945. Theater programs, Programs, Photographs, Portraits, Plans. 1916. Dorot Jewish Division. Jewish arts, Yiddish drama, Theater, Yiddish

Vivian Martin and Niles Welch in the motion picture Jane Goes A-Wooing. Lobby cards, Advertisements. 1919. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Advertising , Motion pictures, Martin, Vivian, 1893-1987, Welch, Niles, 1888-1976

Broadsheet with songs for a two-step dance (paso doble), a man and woman talking while elegantly dressed couples dance in the background ca. 1918 (published) José Guadalupe Posada. Broadsheet with songs for a two-step dance (paso doble), a man and woman talking while elegantly dressed couples dance in the background. José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851-1913). ca. 1918 (published). Photo-relief and letterpress on pink paper. Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1850-1917, Mexican). Prints

Anonymous, soon/ Doctor/ Festa/ soon/ Catalepsy/ hypnotism/ suggestion/ Pascal Delagarde/ Director (title registered (letter)), 1888. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Di Poylishe aseneh: in 3 aen mit eyn epilog Polish wedding פוילישע חתונה פראגראמקע. Thomashefsky, Bores, 1866-1939. Theater programs, Programs, Photographs, Portraits, Plans. 1916. Dorot Jewish Division. Jewish arts, Yiddish drama, Theater, Yiddish

La Musique populaire, Vol. 3, no. 148. text. Periodicals. 1884-08-14. Music Division. Music

International music and drama, Vol. 2, no. 5. text. Periodicals. 1915-01-28. Music Division

The pirates of Penzance , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Partitura musical y cancionero. Fue un error, banda sonora de la película Mi chica favorita, música de Ralph Rainger. Barcelona, 1942.

Poster Voor Songs Galantes Door Paul Delmet, Léonce Burret, 1899 print. poster Company in a park near moonlight. On the right a woman with sheet music in her hands and a masked man with a guitar. On the left a man and a woman hug. Three dancing women in the background. paper moonlight. dancing. cithern, mandolin, guitar, balalaika - CC - out of doors

Au concert , Concerts, Ault & Wiborg Co.. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Prints and Drawings

The Cadenza, Vol. 9, no. 3. text. Periodicals. 1902-11. Music Division. Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin

Poster for la pantomime l'Enfant prodigue. Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue. (Acte III, ScËne V.) Willette, Adolphe, 1857ñ 1926. French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret.

Partitura musical de "Those Ragtime Melodies", de Gene Hodgkins, editada en Nueva York, 1912.

In response to a request from one Officer fighting at the front who wrote to The Tatler syaing , 'wWe are fed up with war pictures, let us see some pretty faces,' a double page spread from the magazine featuring some of the entertainers of the day. From left, Miss Sadrene Storri, a dancer on tour with 'The Pearl Girl', Miss Teddie Gerrard and Mr Harry Pilcer, revue artists, at that time appearing at the London Pavilion and on the right, Miss Gwendoline Brogden, musical comedy actress, appearing

Scribner's: "Tommy and Grizel" by J. M. Barrie, February 1900 Anonymous, American, 20th century. Scribner's: "Tommy and Grizel" by J. M. Barrie, February 680843

Theatre programme for Elën by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (Thétre Libre, 14 February 1895). Dimensions: 39.2 cm x 30.5 cm, 34.3 cm x 26.5 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert.

Fra Diavolo,,Bennett & Moulton's Comic Opera Company , Entertainment, Auber, D. F. E. Daniel François Esprit, 1782,1871. Fra Diavolo, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Folder of music sheet with woman with hat box to her arm and old man; Les Vieux Messieurs. Folder of music sheet for the text of the song Les Vieux Messieurs with elegantly dressed woman with a hat box on her arm and an old man with a top hat looking at her. The name of singer Yvette Guilbert is listed at the top left, she acquired great fame with this song that was written by Maurice Donnay.

The world for laughter / third year. - issue 103/13 February 1870./ Lucrece Borgia

International music and drama, Vol. 1, no. 10. text. Periodicals. 1914-12-24. Music Division

At the opera ball. - Unmasked.

International music and drama, Vol. 2, no. 19. text. Periodicals. 1915-05-08. Music Division

SHOW BOAT (1929), directed by HARRY A. POLLARD.

International music and drama, Vol. 3, no. 23. text. Periodicals. 1915-12-04. Music Division

Fifth and last concert of the Y.M.C.A. Star Course Leland T. Powers, impersonator , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald Book Cover

Aladdin Jr. a tale of a wonderful lamp. c. 1894.

Program for the out-of-town tryout of Pipe Dream, dated October 22-29, 1955, at the Shubert Theatre (New Haven, Conn.). text. Theater programs. 1955-10. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Shubert Theatre (New Haven, Conn.), Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. Pipe dream

Portada del semanario popular "Catalunya Teatral", nº 2, publicado en Barcelona 9 junio 1918, con las fotografías de Carlonia Soto, actriz, y Amadeu Vives, compositor.

The Greatest Colored Aggregation in the world to-day. Photographs, Broadsides. 1850 - 1890. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. African Americans in the performing arts, African American entertainers, Popular culture in advertising, Advertisements

International music and drama, Vol. 3, no. 11. text. Periodicals. 1915-09-11. Music Division

Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1921 American film directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford and starring Mary Pickford as both Cedric Errol and Widow Errol. The film is based on the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

CHARPENTIER, Gustave (1860-1956). French composer. 'Louise'. Performance at the Theatre National de l'Opera-Comique in 1900. Poster (80 x 60 cm). Litography.

Mikado, or the town of Titipu,D'Oyly Carte's Opera Company , Entertainment, Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Sisters Theylly / Duettists Fantasy (registered title (letter)) Esch, the sisters Thelyly / Duettists Fantasistes (registered title (letter)), 1880. Color lithography. Carnavalet Museum, History of Paris.

Life with Father, Cass Theatre -- Detroit, Mich. , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Souvenir book for The Big Show. 1916 - 1917. text. Ephemera, Advertisements. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theater , New York (State) , New York, Theater , Production and direction, Hubbell, Raymond, 1879-1954. Big show, Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 , Portraits

The play pictoral, Vol. 10, no. 61, Cover. Magazine covers. 1907-10. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Acting, Drama, Elsie, Lily, 1886-1962, Coyne, Joseph, 1867-1941

Sheet music cover for Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean. Ed. Gallagher and Al Shean. 1910 - 1923. Photographs. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Gallagher and Shean

The Wonders of Palmistry, Life Cartoons still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Earl Carroll Theatre, Theater - New York

"Inaugural ball, March 4th, 1901 - Engaged for Another Dance", Political Cartoon Featuring President William McKinley and Columbia, arm-in-arm, Heading for the Inaugural Ball, Artwork by Udo J. Keppler, Lithograph by J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Published by Kep

The charity ball , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Cover of 1948 French song book for songs sung by the popular choir group, Les Compagnons des chanson

Othello , Entertainment, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The Woman in White 1871 Block cut by William Harcourt Hooper British Walker designed this poster for Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White," staged at the Olympic Theatre, London in 1871-2. Collins adapted the script from his enormously successful mystery novel published in 1859, and Walker was a friend. Considered the first theatrical poster by a well-known artist, the image represents the actress Anne Catherick swathed in a white cloak, flinging open a church door to step out into a graveyard at night.. The Woman in White 648529

Magic poster - Schichtl's Marionetten Variété-Theater

La Musique populaire, Vol. 3, no. 132. text. Periodicals. 1884-04-24. Music Division. Music

The Sunday journal , Musicians, Pipes Musical instruments, Periodicals

Opera, Clarence Underwood

The bookman, a literary journal. April number now ready. , Reading, Periodicals

International music and drama, Vol. 3, no. 21. text. Periodicals. 1915-11-20. Music Division

Raven, Movie Poster

Mrs. Patrick Casey's Swell Pink Tea, 1898, New York, Publisher, Weber, Fields & Stromberg, Songs, Italian Americans, Alcoholic beverages, Fighting, Police, Violence, Humorous songs, 1 score (4 p.); 35 cm, Title page featuring the title 'Mrs. Patrick Casey's Swell Pink Tea,' with additional titles indicating themes of conflict and chaos at Casey's establishment. The page highlights the cultural context of the song, focusing on Italian American experiences, humor, and references to social issues such as alcohol and violence

Freund's musical weekly, Vol. 8, no. 3. text. Periodicals, Portraits. 1894-11-28. Music Division. Music, Musical instruments , Construction , Marketing, Advertising , Professions, Musicians, De Lussan, Zélie, 1861-1949

International music and drama, Vol. 2, no. 21. text. Periodicals. 1915-05-22. Music Division

'The show is over' - Music Sheet Cover by Sam Coslow, Con Conrad and Al Dubin, featured by Miss Elsie Prince. An illustration of the title and a drawn woman and on the left bottom is a photo of the singer Miss Elsie Prince. Date: circa 20th century

Katy Mahone, 1894. An Irish song featuring the title 'In that little brown cottage that stands over there dwells my sweet Katy Mahone.' The first line relates to the romantic theme of the piece, while the chorus begins with 'Oh, Katy Mahone, I'm yours alone! Why keep me waiting for you' The song was issued in 1894, published by T.B. Harms & Co. and Francis, Day & Hunter in New York and London. It is a song pertaining to courtship and love during the 1890s, comprising 1 score of 8 pages and measures 35 cm in height

International music and drama, Vol. 2, no. 11. text. Periodicals. 1915-03-11. Music Division

Depicts Daly's Theatre, created in color by Edgar Wilson before 1896, showing the building exterior and theatrical signage.

Music Hall star, Madame Marzella with her cockatoos. Date: 1905

The singer and the song, 1899 - c1899/1908. Additional titles include 'Weep no more my lady' (first line of chorus) and 'I was sitting at a table, in a concert hall one night' (first line of song). Issued in New York by Howley, Haviland & Co. and Herbert H. Taylor, Inc. The publication includes themes of songs, concerts, man-woman relationships, and remorse., 8 pages; 34 cm

First concert in the Y.M.C.A. Star Course by the G.R. Clark Concert Co. , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

The Mikado,Bennett & Moulton's Comic Opera Company , Entertainment, Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. Mikado, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

Inside back cover of the periodical The Vaudeville Prompter, No. 3, featuring caricatures of various performer types. Illustrations. 1902. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Entertainers , Caricatures and cartoons, Vaudeville

The Pastime moving picture show 1913. Advertising poster for Thomas Edison's kinetoscopic films shows in the background, a boardwalk visible on the horizon; in the foreground, two women are perched on a rock in the ocean, they are wearing turn-of-the-century bathing costumes; one of the women is waving a white handkerchief.

Title: The runaways from New York Casino c1908. (poster) lithograph showing a famous American Musical revue

The Cadenza, Vol. 7, no. 9. text. Periodicals. 1901-05. Music Division. Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin

Advertising note for the series Little Novels, Anonymous, After Isabel Watkin, c. 1897 print A pierrot sitting on a crescent moon, reading in a book. The earth under him. paper earth, world as celestial body. moon as celestial body. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Pierrot. reading. book

An advertising page in The Boy's Realm, Christmas 1921. Artist: Unknown

Partitura musical y cancionero. No hay otro amor, banda sonora de la película Vuelve a mi, música de Harry Warren. Barcelona, 1948.

Broadside advertising a motion picture show: text reads: 'Coming! Coming! The greatest moving picture and stereopticon exhibition of the season, thrilling dramas, roaring comedies, scenes from all over the world, the very latest productions interesting and instructive. Everyone will enjoy this superb entertainment, Come and bring the children', circa 1909.

Bronx Opera House, Theater - New York

First concert in the Y.M.C.A. Star Course by the G.R. Clark Concert Co. , Entertainment, Brockton Public Library Archival Collection

You Must Not Touch, Additional, Ah! This is Too Much, You Must Not Touch, Hands Off! At Once I Say., First Line of Chorus Girl from Maxim's., Additional, When Jean Was But a Tender Child, a Boy of Five or Six., 1899, New York, Publisher, Howley, Haviland & Co., Songs, Men, Waltzes, Flirting, Musicals, Conduct of Life, 6 p.; 35 cm., The cover of a 1899 music sheet titled 'You Must Not Touch,' featuring ornate designs characteristic of the late 19th century. The title is prominently displayed at the top, with additional titles and information presented in smaller print. The overall aesthetic reflects the musical themes of flirting and romance

Magic poster - Adelaide Herrmann and Company

Advertisement for Black & White Scotch Whisky, featuring a fine silhouette of Niel Blane telling a tale to a serving girl of how he had promised Duncan whisky which would cause him to breathe blue flames! Also featured is quote from 'Old Morality' by Sir Walter Scott 1927

Magic poster - The Famous Newmann the Great American Hypnotist and Mind Reader

Advert for Ewart's Geyser for hot water, 1928. Artist: Unknown

Musical world , Vol. II, no. 1.

Cover of French songbook 'Serenade près de Mexico' music by Kennedy sung by Tino Rossi 1939

La Petit Illustration - Metropolis, Vintage Film Posters

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