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Date
1939-02-27
Description
Photograph from the Federal Theatre production of "Spirochete" performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. The image is of a scene on a boat with actors Billy Jones and Al Ray.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1936
Description
Photograph taken from the back of the amphitheatre known as the Texas Bowl in Dallas, Texas. On stage there is a set that looks like constructed homes in a Native American style. The stage is situated at the base of a small hill. On the right hand side behind the stage there is a car.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939., Texas Centennial Central Exposition (1936 : Dallas, Tex.)]
Date
1937-10-07
Description
Scene with the main character and tiger puppets from a ""Little Black Sambo"" marionette production in New Jersey.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939., Puppet theater.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
A group of men playing football in a field at a CCC Camp. Buildings are seen in the background. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
A group of men playing football in a field at a CCC Camp. Buildings are seen in the background. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1936-03-14
Description
This photograph was taken outside of the Lafayette Theatre on opening night of the Federal Theatre Project Negro Unit's production of "Macbeth". In the center of the photograph the viewer can see the backs of three men who are standing on a crate and are supporting a large spotlight onto the crowd.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Reprint photograph from negative depicting four men in suits who seem to be writing a radio broadcast. Two men are leaning on a table in the center of the photograph and two men are seated, one is writing at a typewriter. Also on the table is a WHN microphone.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Reprint photograph from negative depicting two men and one woman standing around a WHN microphone.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Three puppeteers are manipulating marionettes in a production of ""Little Black Sambo"".
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939., Puppet theater.]
Date
1938
Description
Photograph from a production of ""Little Black Sambo"" of a scene with actors dressed as monkeys sourrounding a central character.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1939-01-21
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" showing eight actors on stage. Characters represented are Gordon Miller, Gregory Wagner, Faker Englund, Senator Blake, Joseph Gribble, Harry Binion, Leo Davis, and Hilda Manney.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1939-01-21
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" showing the characters Leo Davis, Simon Jenkins, Gordon Miller, and Harry Binion.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Photograph of three women in costume posing as part of the production "Swing Mikado."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Photograph of woman in costume dancing as part of the production "Swing Mikado."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1939-05-11
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 2 - at last an angel.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1939-05-11
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 2 - a meal for a reading.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1937
Description
Photograph shows a scene from "Revolt of the Beavers", in which a group of actors huddle in a semi-circle and look at a book.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1937
Description
Photograph shows actors Sam Bonnell, Jules Dassin, and Kathleen Hoyt as Paul, Oakleaf, and Mary, in a WPA Federal Theatre Project of NYC Children's Unit production of "Revolt of the Beavers".
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1937
Description
Production photograph of three actors from "Revolt of the Beavers".
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1939-01-17
Description
Photograph from a production of Pinocchio at the Ritz Theatre in New York City. Image depicts Pinocchio in the mouth of a giant fish.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1937-03-02
Description
Production photograph of a scene from "Sloping West" with a "hillbilly band". Actors from left to right include; Ellery Berry, Austin Thompson, Phil Rickman, Lee Grigsby, Luigi Rangan, and Al Adams.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1937-03-02
Description
Production photograph from "Sloping West." This scene depicts a Spanish-Ethiopian bullfight. With an oversize razor, Lee Grigsby, African-American singer and dancer with the Oregon Federal Theatre, tames "Ol' Snorty."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-12-28
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 3 scene 2. Miller says "He died too soon."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-12-28
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 2. Davis says, "I'm hungry all the time."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-12-28
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 1. Hilda says, "It's beautiful, Mr. Davis."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-12-28
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 3 scene 2. Miller says "It's beautiful."
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-12-28
Description
Posed photograph from "Room Service" of three actors and a moose head.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-11-27
Description
Production photograph from "Room Service" of act 2. The setting is Gordon Miller's room in the White Way Hotel. Actors include Leon Forbes as Leo Davis, Frank Bolger as Gordon Miller, and Allen Walter as Harry Binion.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1936
Description
Photograph of broken pianos and debris at the base of a stage. On the verso it reads: "After the tornado - the day before we were to open." This refers to the play "Follow the Parade".
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939., Texas Centennial Central Exposition (1936 : Dallas, Tex.)]
Date
1936
Description
Production photograph from ""Macbeth"" adapted by Orson Welles and performed by the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project for New York City. This scene depicts the Voodoo Men, who replace the witches chorus in this version of the play.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
A male actor is sitting looking up at a female actress. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
[Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1938-01-27
Description
Production photograph showing a couple dancing together in the center, six men are on the left hand side of the photograph, and seven women are on the right hand side of the photograph. The actors are; Edwin Gibson, Dick Reed, Kenneth, Frank Calender, David Adhar, Sean Menino, Kurt Graff, Grace Graff, Ethel Serasin, Lorraine DeCara, Ida Gallen, Dorothy Davies, Sandy Devine, Phyllis Kalish, Helen Ornesak.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939., Dance--Photographs.]
Date
1936?
Description
Photograph of Hallie Flanagan with papers and a CBS radio microphone.
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Actors on stage in the background with audience in the foreground. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
A group of actors are on stage performing an unknown play at a CCC camp. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
A group of actors are on stage performing an unknown play at a CCC camp. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Image taken from the back of room with a large audience in the foreground and actors on a stage in the background. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Image taken from the stage of an audience watching a play at a CCC camp. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
Image taken from the back of room with a large audience in the foreground and actors on a stage in the background. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1935/1939
Description
A group of actors are on stage performing an unknown play at a CCC camp. [Negative suffering from vinegar syndrome].
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1939
Description
Copy photograph of a Philadelphia street scene featuring an advertisement for the Federal Theatre production of "Spirochete".
Subject
[Theater--United States., New Deal, 1933-1939.]
Date
1990
Description
A wooden cart with a broken wheel rests on the ground near a small automobile and a tractor trailer cab.
Format
Photograph; black and white
Date
1990
Description
View from out of a two-paned window on a construction project.
Format
Photograph; black and white
Date
1990
Description
Flowers are laid at a column of the Brandenberg Gate. A cannon barrel and several persons are in the background.
Format
Photograph; black and white
Date
1990
Description
A sculpture features two dinosaurs fighting.
Format
Photograph; black and white
Date
1990
Description
A truck driver leans into an office window before leaving a factory.
Format
Photograph; black and white
Date
1990
Description
Three children, using tools, work at taking apart the Berlin Wall.
Format
Photograph; black and white
Date
1989
Description
A man with a broom and pitchfork stand next to the entrance to a coal cellar in the side of a building (also, see image number 2).
Format
Photograph; black and white
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