Links to Digital Images > Popular Images > Broadway

Over 1 million photographs chronicling theatre, vaudeville, burlesque, film, television, radio, the circus, beauty pageants, parades and the world of magic can be found in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. The division's collection also includes over 1 million programs and playbills, 11,000 originals (i.e. designs, caricatures, etc.), and 27,000 posters and window cards.

Jill Haworth and Burt Convy in Cabaret Gwen Verdon in Damn Yankees Katherine Dunham and cast in Cabin in the Sky John Granger, Horst Bucholtz, and Kim Stanley in Cheri Noel Coward, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne in Design for living Prof. Higgins' study in My Fair Lady. Set design by Oliver Smith Raul Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona

Rosalind Russell and cast in Auntie Mame Yul Brynner, Gertrude Lawrence and cast in The King and I The Rumble from West Side Story Diosa Costello and Desi Arnaz in Two Many Girls Oh! Calcutta! Bette Midler in Clams on the Half Shell The Wiz

Women Behind Bars Godspell Hair, revival Twiggy and Tommy Tune in My One and Only Anita Morris in Nine Peter Firth rehearsing for Equus