New York Public Library Digitized More Than 100,000 Pieces of Theater Ephemera

The archive includes a collection of posters, script drafts and rare photographs of famous actors.

New York Public Library uploaded more than 100,000 pieces of theater ephemera of the 20th century, Open Culture writes. Billy Rose Theatre Division catalogue is available at Digitalcollections.nypl.org.

The archive includes a collection of posters, script drafts and rare photographs of famous actors.

Among other things, it has personal papers of Katharine Hepburn, a book about the creation of the Birth of a Nation by David Griffith and scripts of plays written based on this film.


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(All photos: The New York Public Library)

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