Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
Date: | 1978 |
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Description: | Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978). Schnaffner is looking through the viewfinder of a Panaflex camera. |
Date: | 1978 |
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Description: | Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978) in a quarter-length portrait taken during production. He wears a dark cap. |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Half-length publicity portrait of Lillie Langtry wearing a dress decorated with a large bat at the neckline. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Irene Castle in a complicated satin and tulle costume in her role as the cabaret dancer Palma May in the silent film "French Heels" (Holtre 1922). |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Dorothy Jardon in a White Studio publicity photograph for her first Broadway appearance, the musical comedy "The Merry-Go-Round," which opened at the Circl... |
Date: | 1956 |
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Description: | Director John Ford (in glasses and a hat) on the set of the film "The Searchers," with actors including John Wayne (left) and Doris del Rio. Behind them st... |
Date: | 08 1928 |
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Description: | A man operates a Mitchell camera from inside an MGM sound booth as Raquel Torres and Nils Asther perform seated in front of lights and a microphone. Direct... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | The mixer in a sound booth talks to actor Ramon Novarro and director Jacques Feyder as they record dialogue for the film "Son of India." |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James A. Herne in his Great Play" upper left, title and director upper right. Scene from play with Martin and Nathaniel Berry c... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James J. Corbett in His New Play A Naval Cadet" across top, Charles T. Vincent's name beneath title upper left and "Direction o... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Color lithograph on paper. Across top in caps "A splendid scenic revival of the greatest of American dramas." Title runs beneath. Scene from play in which ... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Color lithograph poster. Title runs across top and the poster features a portrait of Dan Russell, whose name runs across the bottom. The famous comedian... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Color lithograph poster. Title runs across top with author's name, William Gillette, under it in upper right corner. Scene depicts a well-dressed woman sta... |
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