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Over 100,000 photographs chronicling classical, opera, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, musical comedy, orchestral, rock, and pop music can be found in the Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. The division's iconography collection also includes 5,000 set and costume designs for opera, 400,000 pieces of sheet music, and the Joseph Muller Collection of 6,000 fine prints of musicians' portraits from the 15th through the mid-20th centuries.

Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly
John Lennon of The Beatles
John Lennon of The Beatles
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
 
Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale"
Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale"
Maria Callas
Maria Callas
 
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz
Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra