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EVB2933911: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Italian operatic composer, became musical director of La Scala, Milan, in 1929. 1902 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933915: Postcard showing bareback rider and acrobat, Lucille Mullhall, standing on back of horse. 1909 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932919: John Gay (1685-1732), English poet and playwright, best known for THE BEGGERS OPERA, 1728. Gay associated with Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Arbuthnot / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932944: Andres Bello (1781-1865) Latin American poet best known for SILVAS AMERICANAS, two epic poems lauding South America / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932954: Thomas Chatterton, (1752-1770) wrote his first mature poem when he was ten years old. During his teen years, he wrote through the imagined character of Thomas Rowley, a 15th century monk. After his early death by suicide, he was embraced by the emerging Romantic movement / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932966: Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet reading in 1941 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932976: Illustration of Edgar Allan Poe's (1809-1849), THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET, showing two men in boat lifting the body of Marie Roget from water. 1855 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932986: African American Poets at Jackson State College festival in 1945. Seated in front row, l. to r.: Sterling Allen Brown, unidentified, Margaret Walker, Langston Hughes, and in back row: Arna Wendell Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, President Jacob L. Reddix, Queen Dodson, and Robert C. Hayden / Bridgeman Images
EVB2932988: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French poet, associated with Arthur Rimbaud, was artistically associated with the "Decadents," Stephane Mallarme and Charles Baudelaire. 1891 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933003: Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), prepares to enter bankruptcy court in the Federal Building, wearing dark glasses, and holding papers. 1963 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933005: Vivian Alfretta Dandridge (1921-1991), was an African American singer and actress, was the sister of actress Dorothy Dandridge and the daughter of character actress Ruby Dandridge. She was a member of the Dandridge Sisters musical group, along with Etta Jones and Dorothy Dandridge. 1955 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933013: Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, in a stylized portrait by African American photographer Carl Van Vechten. 1933, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933721: Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933722: Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress, seated with others at dining table in her special railroad car, facing front, Dallas, Texas. 1906 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933724: Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress, in dramatic pose, kneeling with arms raised. c. 1892 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933735: Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852), established his reputation as an actor in England but abandoned his wife and son in 1841 and emigrated to the U.S. with Mary Ann Holmes. His career thrived and with Holmes he fathered ten more children including assassin John Wilkes Booth, actor Edwin Booth, and theater manager Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. Daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, c. 1848 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933736: Fanny Brice (1891-1951), American comedienne and accomplished singer in early portrait. Brice performed in the Ziegfeld Follies for two decades. After 1930 she performed for radio and movies. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933739: Frank S. Chanfrau, American actor, best known for his character Mose, in the play, NEW YORK AS IT IS. 1848 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933743: Benoit Constant Coquelin, (1841-1909), French actor as Mascarille in Moliere's one-act satire, PRECIEUSES RIDICULES. He played both classic and modern roles over his long successful career / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933749: Mary Anderson de Navarro (1859-1940), American actress as Galatea IN William Schwenk Gilbert's (of Gilbert and Sullivan) PYGMALION AND GALATEA. 1883 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933751: Marie Dressler (1868-1934), Canadian born comedienne, posing as a jester. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933775: Anna Held, 1899 (poster) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933779: DeWolf Hopper, (1858-1935) surrounded by six women, all in costume, starring in Sousa's El Capitan. Hopper's six marriages included one to the young actress who became known as Hedda Hopper. 1986 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933784: Hedda Hopper (1890-1966), as a young actress, modeling a fur coat. 1929 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933785: Japanise woodcut by Toyokuni Utagawa of actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII in the role of Kaja Yoshitaka from the play RAIGO AJOR KAISODEN. 1854 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933795: Bertha Kalich (18741939), Ukrainian born American actress, known for performances in New York's Yiddish theater. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933812: Robert B. Mantell. Hamlet, 1890 (poster) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2933816: Julia Marlowe (1866-1950), English born American actress, as Viola in Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT. 1888 photo by Benjamin Falk / Bridgeman Images
JAB7202983: South America Patagonian natives. 1861 (engraving), Hadamard, A. (fl.c.1840-1860) / Bridgeman Images
JAB7202989: Compressed air containers in the steam factory, to send pneumatic tubes at the Post Office, 1878 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images
JAB7202993: Connecting phone call in the central Post Office in 1878 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images
TAU7203172: Potatoe Girl, 1901 (Oil on canvas), Simberg, Hugo (1873-1917) / Bridgeman Images
TAU7203177: Hilma Westerholm, 1888 (Oil on canvas), Danielson-Gambogi, Elin (1861-1919) / Bridgeman Images
TAU7203178: The Road to Nieuport, c.1890 (Oil on canvas), Finch, Alfred William (Willy) (1854-1930) / Bridgeman Images
TAU7203184: Valley on the Kymi River, 1901 (Oil on canvas), Westerholm, Victor (1860–1919) / Bridgeman Images
ELD7203374: Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel and Luisa Sanfelice, Neapolitan aristocrats, sentenced to death in 1800. 1882 (Engraving) / Bridgeman Images