Research Catalog

  • Twiggy : an autobiography.

    • Text
    • London : Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Twiggy) 77-2623Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Onnageinin kikigaki / Gotō Minako cho.

    • Text
    • Tōkyō : Ushio Shuppansha, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OSM 88-2052Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Las mujeres del tango / Estela dos Santos.

    • Text
    • Buenos Aires : Centro Editor de América Latina, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGS (Argentine) 88-6056Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Notable women in the American theatre : a biographical dictionary / edited by Alice M. Robinson, Vera Mowry Roberts, and Milly S. Barranger.

    • Text
    • New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 90-4171Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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  • Brown sugar : eighty years of America's Black female superstars / by Donald Bogle.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, [1990], c1980.
    • 1990-1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 90-182Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Babe Hines portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1920?-1939?>
    • 1920-1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Hines, BabeSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Freda Payne portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <197-?>
    • 1970-1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Payne, FredaSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Women in folk theatre / Fouzia Saeed, Adam Nayyar.

    • Text
    • Islamabad, Pakistan : Lok Virsa, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OHO 91-14044Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Aida Overton Walker portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1895?-1979?>
    • 1895-1979
    • 1 Item

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    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8903b2c0-c5f1-012f-080d-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=255:57e95e00-fb07-0131-2baf-58d385a7b928
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Walker, Aida OvertonSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Valaida Snow portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1924-1935>
    • 1920-1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Snow, ValaidaSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • First half / Toni Lamond.

    • Text
    • Sydney : Pan Books, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMC 92-122Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Flirt und Flitter. Lebensbilder aus der Bühnenwelt.

    • Text
    • [Düsseldorf] E. Diederichs [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 89-25052Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Mr. Blackwell's worst : 30 years of fashion fiascos / Mr. Blackwell with Vernon Patterson.

    • Text
    • New York : Pharos Books, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 92-1900Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Evie Hayes "And I loves ya back!" / John Crampton.

    • Text
    • Pymble, NSW, Australia : Angus & Robertson, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Hayes, E.) 92-13071Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Kisaeng in the Koryŏ period [microform] / by Kathleen Louise McCarthy.

    • Text
    • c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMD-581Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Zhongguo shi ge ji wai zhuan / Ai Ning ... [et al.] bian zhu ; [cha tu Xiao Jishi].

    • Text
    • [Wuhan shi] : Jing Chu shu she : Xin hua shu dian Hubei fa xing suo jing xiao, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OVP 94-2740Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Rose McClendon scrapbooks, 1919-1935.

    • Mixed material
    • 1919-1934
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc Micro R-6634 r. 1: v. 1 (1919-1932)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc Micro R-6634 r. 2: v. 2 (1932-1934)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Stagestruck : an autobiography / by Val Jellay (Mrs. Maurie Fields).

    • Text
    • Richmond, Vic., Australia : Spectrum, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Jellay, V.) 96-1817Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • A trade like any other : female singers and dancers in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk.

    • Text
    • Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGV 95-1298Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Égypte, un pays contre sa danse : danse orientale.

    • Text
    • 1995
  • Susy Díaz, anatomía de una democracia / Carlos Chávez Toro.

    • Text
    • Lima : Arteidea Editores, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 96-17911Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Film reviews : "A little for my heart, a little for my God."

    • Text
    • 1995
  • Maya Angelou : more than a poet / Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli.

    • Text
    • Springfield, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 96-377Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Dita : the very private life of a very public person : based on the life of Dita Cobb / written by Dita Cobb and Barbara Moore.

    • Text
    • St. Leonards, NSW : Windermere, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Cobb, D.) 96-14427Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Paris by night : a tour of the capital's gay pleasure haunts / by Jacques Robert ; translated by Stephanie and Richard Sutton ; edited by Alain De Moinerie ; photographs by Daniel Frasnay and others.

    • Text
    • London : Charles Skilton ; Paris : Distributed in France by Librarie Ley, c1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 8-DOL (Robert, J. Paris by night)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Showgirls / Andrea Stuart.

    • Text
    • London : J. Cape, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGY 98-11820Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 97-124Offsite
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  • India cabaret [videorecording] / produced and directed by Mira Nair.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-2498Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Meiji o irodoru onnatachi : Oume, Osuma, Ponta, Okoi, Saikichi / Chiya Michio.

    • Text
    • Tōkyō : Bungei Shunjū, Shōwa 60 [1985]
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OSM 86-2844Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Gypsy Rose Lee papers, 1910-1970.

    • Mixed material
    • 1910-1970
    • 87 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/fc900de0-ab68-0139-488f-0242ac110005
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material *ZC-532 Reel 4 = Scrapbooks 7-8Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material *ZC-532 Reel 5 = Scrapbooks 9-10Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material *ZC-532 Reel 6 = Scrapbooks 11-12Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • The right to bare : containing and encoding American women in popular entertainments of the 1920s.

    • Text
    • 1997
  • Chorus girls I have known : forty types of the merry, merry, and one that don't belong / by Frank Deshon ; compiled and edited by Charles E. Thropp.

    • Text
    • New York : J.S. Ogilvie, c1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWET [RBS] 97-705 (Deshon, F. Chorus girls I have known)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Qué linda es Cuba! : issues of gender, color, and nationalism in Cuba's Tropicana nightclub performance.

    • Text
    • 1997
  • From Mae to Madonna : women entertainers in twentieth-century America / June Sochen.

    • Text
    • Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 99-5306Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Yu ling shi / Tan Fan zhu.

    • Text
    • Shanghai : Shanghai wen yi chu ban she, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OVL 99-1766Offsite
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  • Ziegfeld girl : image and icon in culture and cinema / Linda Mizejewski.

    • Text
    • Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MFL 99-7494Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Rank ladies : gender and cultural hierarchy in American vaudeville / M. Alison Kibler.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWFH 99-6953Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Sugar Land : a novel / by Joni Rodgers.

    • Text
    • Duluth, MN : Spinsters Ink, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 99-13270Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Performing women : stand-ups, strumpets and itinerants / introduced, interviewed and edited by Alison Oddey.

    • Text
    • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : Published in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 99-11913Offsite
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  • Marie Lloyd : the one and only / Midge Gillies.

    • Text
    • London : Gollancz, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 99-723Offsite
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWES (Lloyd, M.) 01-2616Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Liza Minnelli [videorecording] / The Shubert Organization, in association with Ron Delsener presents ; directed by Bob Fosse ; written by Fred Ebb ; choreographed by Bob Fosse & Ron Lewis ; original musical material by Fred Ebb & John Kander ; [video producer, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director]

    • Moving image
    • New York, c1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 21 Videodiscs 1 and 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Lillian Russell, ca. 1915 / photograph by White.

    • Still image
    • New York : White, [1915?]
    • 1915
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ed343d6-6129-095a-e040-e00a18060cf0
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image *T-Pho A (Russell, Lillian, no. 28)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Martha Jean-Claude : mwen se fanm de peyi = femme de deux îles / [textes de Nicole Arcelin, Richard Mirabal, CIDIHCA].

    • Text
    • Montréal : Editions du CIDIHCA, [1999?]
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 00-351Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Stripped and teased [videorecording] : tales from Las Vegas women / Bal-Maiden Films ; directed by Amie Williams ; produced by Jodie Evans.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : Cinema Guild, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-4625Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Cool careers for girls in performing arts / Ceel Pasternak & Linda Thornburg.

    • Text
    • Manassas Park, Va. : Impact Publications, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWET 01-1583Offsite
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  • The chanteuse at the city limits : femininity, Paris, and the cinema / by Kelley Conway.

    • Text
    • 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 01-356Offsite
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  • Performers : actors, directors, dancers, musicians / Karen Covington.

    • Text
    • Austin : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 01-4825Offsite
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  • The avante-garde woman typescript and notes, circa 1957.

    • Mixed material
    • 1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material *T-Mss 2001-032 Box 1Offsite
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  • Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 02-451Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A to Z of American women in the performing arts / Liz Sonneborn.

    • Text
    • New York : Facts on File, Inc., c2002.
    • 2002
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-RMRR PN2286.8 .S66 2002Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 02-6332Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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  • Hollywood moms / photographs by Joyce Ostin ; introduction by Carrie Fisher.

    • Text
    • New York : H.N. Abrams, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWER 02-4027Offsite
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