THEA 240: Theatre History I: Media

The Ringling Collection is comprised of cabinet cards, postcards and photographs of American and British actors and actresses. The Collection is one of several housed in the Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts in the Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections on the campus to the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL).

Various digital image collections covering many aspects of theatre, from photographs, to scrapbooks, to clippings files, posters, video, and more.

The Performing Arts glass plate negatives collection, ca. 1890–ca. 1920 (bulk 1900–1910), consists of 95 photographic glass plate negatives. Forty-six images are from twenty theater productions in New York and thirty-four images are from unidentified productions. The photographs show actors in costume, often on a stage set, depicting the action for a particular play. Among the identified productions are images from plays such as Ben-Hur, The Count of Monte Cristo, Human Hearts, The Pit, The Rose of the Rancho, Salome (1909), The Sign of the Cross, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Zaza. Images of actors include Mrs. Leslie Carter, Rose Melville, Olga Nethersole, E. H. Sothern, and David Warfield. Eight images show theater building exteriors and seven images are of other subjects, generally theater equipment and portraits of people who may be in costume, but do not appear to be in a specific scene from a play.

The City Museum has received generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize its theater production files--more than 30,000 photographs documenting over 5,000 Broadway productions. They'll be made available here as they're digitized and cataloged.

From Eric Colleary, theatre historian and curator.

Brings together materials from America's libraries, archives, and museums and makes it freely available.

Europeana is a European digital library which gives access to online collections of many European institutions (archives, libraries, museums).