Theatre and Dance

Part of the Ameriican Memory Project. Playscripts, playbills and programs, plus sound recordings and photographs.

Along with dance instruction manuals, also has many antidance manuals, histories, and treatises on etiquette.

Photographs, scrapbooks, writings, costume and set designs, choreographic notes, music scores, diaries, and programs.

Manuscripts, books, diaries, choreographic notebooks, correspondence, moving image materials, music scores, photographs, posters, programs, set and costume designs, and scrapbooks.

Stage and costume designs, photographs, posters, playbills, programs, and playscripts.

Photographs and video recordings.

Swedish theatrical producer, director, and publisher Lars Schmidt (1917-2009) spent over 50 years in the theater business. Collection focuses on Schmidt's efforts to bring English-language plays and musicals, mostly from the United States, to Nordic and Parisian stages.

Concert programs, clippings (including press announcements and reviews), libretti, scripts and photographs.

From burlesque to vaudeville to Harry Houdini, thousands of posters from the late19^th-early 20^th century.

From the 1890s to 2010, recordings of American stage and show songs.

Animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus.

Since 1990, this Library of Congress-curated archive has collected and digitized millions of historically important documents. Everything from photos to audio recordings can be found here.

The story of America through its newspapers, digitized and searchable.