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Research Collections at the Performing Arts Library
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Billy Rose Theater Division
Holdings illuminate every type of performance, from street corner to stage to studio.
Subject: Theater
Format: Video, Film, Ephemera
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Chronicles the art of dance in all its manifestations — ballet, ethnic, modern, social, and folk.
Subject: Dance
Format: Books, Films, Video, Audio, Clippings, Iconography, Manuscripts, Memorabilia
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Music Division
Chronicles the art of music in all its diversity — opera, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, musical comedy, orchestral, rock, and pop music.
Subject: Music
Format: Printed Books, Scores and Periodicals, Clippings, Programs, Archives, Sheet Music, Electronic Resources
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Performing Arts Circulating Collection
Coverage encompasses the fields of dance, drama, film and video, television, radio, music, recorded sound, and arts administration.
Subject: Theater, Performing Arts
Format: Sheet Music, Periodicals, Books, DVD's Film
Location: Library for the Performing Arts
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Over 500,000 sound recordings in every format: cylinder, 78rpm, LP, reel-to-reel tape, cassette, CD, laser disc.
Subject: Recorded Music, Literature and Speech
Format: Recordings, Moving Images, Printed Materials
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Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
Documentation effort, recording Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, and dialogues between notable theatre personalities.
Subject: Theater
Format: Film, Tape
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Picture of the Day
May Day in New York (1856). NYPL Picture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery