Vintage Theatrical Productions

Historic performances in theaters, depicting scenes from plays with cast in period costumes, creating a sense of nostalgia and artistry.

Roy Royston and June, in 'Little Nelly Kelly' 1923

Showgirl dances with a long string of beads Date: 1928

A scene in a Paris night club at midnight: semi-naked dancers and their admirers Date: 1926

Plansza Z Programu Bal des Inconsivents Z 1892 r. Album E. Maindron The illustrious programs of theaters and concert cafes. Menus, invitation cards, small prints, etc. Maindron, Ernest (1838 1908), Neumont, Maurice (1868 1930)

Roy Royston and June, in 'Little Nelly Kelly' 1923

SACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, with his wife Yvonne Printemps in a production of 'Mozart' 1926

At a German Carnival Ball two couples double their fun when they join forces to form a foursome Date: 1908

Get-Together Dinner Menu. Cunard West Indies Cruise, 1930. R.M.S. Franconia. Tuesday, December 2, 1930.

La Goulue and Valentin la Desossee. Poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French artist, 1864-1901. La Goulue was the stage name of Moulin Rouge dancer Louise Weber. Val

Partitura musical del pasodole España Cañí, del maestro Pascual Marquina. Año 1930.

Woman with play viewer on balcony in theater; La Loge Au Mascaron Doré. A woman is sitting on a balcony in a theater and looks through a scenery. The balcony is decorated with a golden mask.

Gentleman putting on carrick coat while leaving a fashionable salon. A public room at Frascatis, Paris, Year VIII, 1800. Famous salon for parties, balls, concerts and gambling. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzannes Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898.

Illustration showing two gentlemen trying to steady a clumsy lady on an ice rink. Date: 1934

Poster for Papier à Cigarettes Job. Georges Meunier, 1869-1942, Renowned poster artist, influenced by Jules Cheret.

Backstage, showgirls compete for the favours of an rich old patron, who has jewels to give to his favourites. Date: 1928

Herbert Mundin, Henry Lytton, Anton Dolin and Jessie Mathews, in Charlot's Show, 1926 1926

Belle Otero: Folies-Bergere, Dance

An artist's impression of one of the scenes in 'The Piccadilly Revels' when performed at The Piccadilly Hotel. Date: 1925

Album Tangoville-sur-Mer -Trois Dancers Isoles: A Spanish dancer, Beautiful Otero, Mr. Urribaren plays Castanets and down the Prince Igor Troubetzkoy Dance to Russian SEM (Georges Goursat, said, 1863-1934) / j. SAUD�. "Album Tangoville-sur-Mer -Rois Dancers isolated: A Spanish dancer, the beautiful Otro, Mr. Urribaren plays Castanets and down the Prince Igor Troubetzkoy Dance to Russian". Color lithography.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Chocolat Dancing in the Achille Bar, French, 1864 - 1901, photomechanical process in black, red, and yellow

Two French dancers performing 'le Turkey-Trot' are privileged to be depicted by the noted artist Juan Gris, better known as a cubist ! Date: circa 1910

Slides of the Opera at the Grévin Museum, 1891 ..

At the Opera Ball by Grévin 36. / Three o'clock in the morning! ...

Dance salon in the New Carlton Hotel in Shanghai; Odori Shanghai Nyu Karuton Shoken. Two ladies at a round table, on which two cocktail glasses, looking at four dancing couples.

Joseph Goebbels (18971945) Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, silencing a singer in a radio broadcast recital, c1936-1940. Censorship included the music of Jewish composers. Anti-Semitism

Theater of Athenee-Comic, Boudreau Street (Auber Street), Paris-sur-Scene Lucien Marie Fran�ois Metivet (1863-1932). "Ath�n�e-Comic Theater, Boudreau Street (Auber Street), Paris-on-Scene". Poster. Color lithography, circa 1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum.

Movie poster The Merry Canary by Lev Kuleshov, Gerasimovich, Iosif Vasilyevich (1893-1986)

The echo, Chicago, August 1, 1895 , Musicians, Guitars, Periodicals

A leading dancer performs while the chorus girls hover in the background Date: 1897

Bliżej Kultury unknown

Five musicians, c. 1899 - in Or Before 1952 print Five musicians standing, with the backs against each other. paper. printing ink brass band, street band - CC - out of doors

Behind the scenes of the opera at the Grévin museum, 1891, Jules Chéret, 1891 poster

The Comedy-Ballet of Marionnettes, as performed by the troupe of the Theatre-Impossible, posed in the second of three drawings. A lady and her weak-chinned companion approach a set of double doors. Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley in The Yellow Book, volume II, July 1894. Date: 1894

Magic poster - Disappearing act

The gallant sergeant audience and two charming lawyers, Miss Jouard and Melle Rospars (PL 21) SEM (1863-1934). "The gallant sergeant audience and two charming lawyers, Miss Jouard and Melle Rospars (PL 21)". Lithograph, around 1918.

Female acrobats on trapezes at circus by Calvert Litho. Co. / Private Collection / c. 1890 / The United States / Colour lithograph / Poster and Graphic design / Art Nouveau

Anton DOLIN (1904-83) British ballet dancer and choreographer dancing the name role in the Vic-Wells Ballet's production of Lord of Burleigh with Ursula Moreton as Lady Clara. At this time. Dolin was princial dancer with the Vic-WelIs.

Cinderella arrives at the ball, the footmen bow deferentially, the major-domo waves her in Date: circa 1896

Poster for "Marriage" a lost Soviet film of 1936 . Screen version of the play by Gogol . The first directorial work of the famous actor Erast Garin. A copy of the film was not preserved. Garin and Lokshina purposefully searched for their film, asking even the French cinematheque .

Reproduction of 2 parts of the composition from the artistic program of the Parisian cabaret La Scala Album E. Maindron Les Programmes Illustres des Theatres et Cafes Concerts. Menus, Cartes d'Invitation, petites estum, etc. unknown, Maindron, Ernest (1838 1908)

Portada del semanario de amenidades ¡Hola!, editada en Barcelona, septiembre de 1944.

An American illustration of a dancer in a burlesque theatre 1870

A couple dancing in pierrot costume Date: 1924

Betsy and Ozma, Wizard of Oz

The officers' ball at the Continental Hotel; The parade

Sketches of a scene taken from the musical The Better Ole by Bystander cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, staged at the Oxford Theatre (formerly the Oxford Musical Hall) in London in 1917 where it ran for 811 performances. It brought to life Bairnsfather's character Old Bill, a grumpy, walrus-moustached soldier along with a cast of other British 'types'. Date: 1917

'La Lune' featuring Miriam Kornfield , Singers, Dancers, Dance. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Magic poster - Pull Bros. Wonder Show

Color print by Alexandre Lunois from around 1895 depicting Flemish dancers, showing costumes, movement, and group arrangement.

Illustration from a French, satirical magazine showing the theme of marriage

Partitura musical del tango "Fumando espero", de Juan Viladomat. Editado en Madrid, 1958.

Young gymnast lowering a rope in a theater. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1885

Poster for the Opera The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan by Hardy, Dudley (1866-1922) / Private Collection / 1897 / Great Britain / Colour lithograph / Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Poster and Graphic design / 77x49 / Art Nouveau

Woman Dancing for Sailors. ca. 1941, JUST A COUPLA FANS

A 1897 color print by Léonce Burret depicting 'The Black Cat', illustrating late 19th-century theatrical poster design and entertainment promotion.

Anonymous, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Rosa-Josepha (common name), 1880. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Pau Roig Cisa, Circus: Two Clowns and Baboon Dressed as Baby, 1911, lithograph on paper.

Am I Come Hither to Serve You with Water, Pray - Scene from the Fairy by Charles Perrault

A lady plays the piano to entertain her gentleman friend: practice makes perfect. Date: 1920s

An advert for Abdulla Superb Cigarettes showing a party in full swing. Date: 1928

Cartoon, The Interview. A professor on another planet gives a journalist his views on life on Earth. On the subject of the First World War, the journalist asks: Who will be the winner, people or fire Date: 1918

LOIE FULLER (Mary Louise Fuller) American dancer as Le Papillon de Nuit at the Bouffes-Parisiens Date: 1862 - 1928

French satirical Illustration, depicting gambling in France. 1907. A rich couple arrive to play roulette at a casino

The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. c1899. (poster) lithograph Theatre poster depicting a chorus girl from an american music hall show

Publicidad. Anuncio de la película El Lirio, producida por William Fox (1872-1952), director de cine norteamericano de origen húngaro. Año 1926.

American trade card for Hoxie's patent medicine c1890

Page displaying a glorious array of fancy dress and carnival costumes. Date: 1930

Irene Browne, in 'No, No, Nanette', and Emma Haig and George Gee, in, most probably a 1927 production of 'The Girl Friend' 1920s

ANNA PAVLOVA Russian ballet dancer as the Dying Swan in a performance of 'Swan Lake' in 1912 Date: 1881 - 1931

'A DOLLS' HOUSE' The famous French actress Suzanne Despres in the role of Nora Date: 1907

Anonymous. Poster for the show of "Hacker and Lester". Color lithography, 1880-1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Acrobat, acrobatics, artist, circus artist, poster, bicycle, circus, communication, cycle, two 2, print, balance, balance, balance, lithography, wheel, spectacle, 19th XIX 19th 19th 19th 19

'Carnaval', a romantic ballet to music by Robert Schumann. Date: 1928

Albert Morris Bagby's new novel Miss Traumerel. , Pianos, Pianists, Flowers, Books

Ridiculous dancers, caricatures by Georges Goursat, known as Sem (1863-1934), from The Tatler, No 1389, February 8, 1928, London.

A chorus line at the Alhambra theatre. Date: 1890

A group of people huddle together in a sitting room to watch the latest gadget in 1954, a television. 1954

Colourful New Year Greetings card from Germany - featuring two jolly German ladies in bonnets, one playing the trumpet and the other beating a large side drum. Date: 1906

Caricatura de Julio Francés (1869-1944), violinista y profesor en la Escuela Nacional. Año 1911. Author: ROMÁN BONET SINTES "BON".

Sheer Surprise, Mutoscope Card, 1940s

Design for a frontispiece to John Davidson's plays by Aubrey Beardsley, featuring caricatures of Sir Augustus Harris, theatre manager; Oscar Wilde; Beardsley's sister Mabel (nude woman); Henry Harland, literary editor of the Yellow Book (faun); poet Richard Le Gallienne (masked figure); dancer Adeline Genee (ballerina). Date: 1894

Last Waltz, Clarence Underwood

Snow White and the seven dwarfs circa 1936-1941.

Grafin Mariza: A German Operetta, Violin & Cello

Marjo is fired. Marjo is behind a typewriter. She has a round object in her hand and turns around. Behind her state the director who raises his finger.

Dancer with circus sideshow

The lark for May , Musicians, Pipes Musical instruments, Periodicals

Dorothy and the King, Wizard of Oz

Wizard Cut the Sorcer in Two, Wizard of Oz

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003.

Album sem at the blue sea: Nice at the casino, the faithful of Negresco SEM (Georges Goursat, says - 1863-1934) / J. SAUD�. "Album Sem at the Bleue Sea: Nice at the casino, the followers of Negresco". Color lithography.

Cover of catalogue of Manufrance (Manufacture Francaise dArmes et Cycles) Saint Etienne, c1920. A large fish outwitting amateur fishermen. Rod Line Net Boat Comedy

Portada de la revista gráfica Gran Mundo, editada en Barcelona, mayo de 1925. Portada de La Divina Ofrenda, de Fray Galán.

Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - The Tango de l'Opere Comique A man covered with bandage dance with Madame Dean, surgeon's wife; This one looks at them with apron and butcher tools SEM (Georges Goursat, says - 1863-1934) / Saud� Jean. "Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - The Opera-Comic Tango a man covered with bandage dance with Madame Dean, surgeon woman; he looks at them with apron and butcher tools". Color lithography.

Wishing you a Happy and Pleasant Easter. Two clowns and a cascade of Easter eggs sending Easter wishes. 1906

La Farce du Munyer Meunier, a play by Andre de la Vigne, in which the Devil carries off a miller's soul to Hell. Showing a delighted Devil in orange costume, holding up a bag which contains the miller's soul. Date: 1496

Magic poster - Thurston The Great Magician - Arrow Shot Through a Girl's Body

MARGARITA SE LLAMA MI AMOR (1961), directed by RAMON FERNANDEZ.

Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - The return to Buenos-Aires-Carlos Gardel (Argentinian dancer who featured the national tango) addresses a bonus of Castellane and Melle Iznaga "Mi Querco, ME VAS A ENSENAR A Bailar El Famoso Parisian tango SEM (Georges Goursat, said, 1863-1934) / Saud� Jean. "Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - The return to Buenos-Aires - Carlos Gardel (Argentine dancer who features the national tango) is aimed at Boni de Castellane and Melle Iznaga" Mi Querido, ME VAS A ENSENAR A BAILAR EL Parisian tango famoso "". Color lithography.

The Castle Walk. Castle, Irene, 1893-1969. Illustrations. 1914. Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Ballroom dancing , 20th century, Ballroom dancing , Study and teaching

Two minuet dancers, from Figaro illustre, Year XXI, No 165, Christmas issue, 1903.

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