EVB2933707: The Black Crook Company, portraying four couples in evening dress drinking champagne. The musical group employed the European practice of using females in male roles. 1893 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933709: Maude Adams (1872-1953), American actress, 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933728: Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress, in role of Shakespeare's Hamlet. 1887 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933729: Edwin Booth (1833-1893), American actor, in costume as Hamlet. Photo by J. Guerney, c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933730: Edwin Booth (1833-1893), American actor, was trained by his father, Junius Brutus Booth, he emerged as one of the most popular and respected Shakespearean actors in the 1860's / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933734: Edwin Booth (1833-1893), American actor, in costume as Hamlet. Photo by J. Guerney, c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933737: Capitano, a stock character in the Commedia dell'arte, with theatrical stage set and spectators in background. Commedia dell'arte used professional actors who performed in public and accepted donations. 1618 etching by Jacques Callot / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933738: Mrs. Patrick Campbell, (1865-1940) English actress, holding pet dog. 1901 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933740: Frank S. Chanfrau, (1824-1884) American actor, in costume, c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933747: Lotta Crabtree, (1847-1924) American Actress, began her acting career as a child in the goldfields of California. 1868 portrait by J. Gurney / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933754: Marie Dressler (1868-1934), Canadian born comedienne, and later Oscar-winning character actress wearing lamp shade style hat, with brim down. c. 1909 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933759: Minnie Maddern Fiske, c.1896 (photo), Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933761: Mrs. Fiske, ''Salvation Nell'', 1909 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933768: Trixie Friganza (1870 – 1955), vaudeville musical star, supported and demonstrated in the U.S. Suffragist movement. 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933773: Louise Closser Hale (1872-1933), American actress and novelist. From 1929 until her death in 1933, she had roles in several films including SHANGHAI EXPRESS and DINNER AT EIGHT. c. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933776: F. Ziegfeld Jr. presents Anna Held in ''Papa's'' Wife by Dekoven & Smith, 1900 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933789: Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), American actor. c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933094: Mahalia Jackson singing from the Lincoln Memorial, 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933095: Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), African American gospel singer. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1962, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933100: Charlie Parker, 'Yardbird', (1920-1955), African American Jazz saxophonist in 1947 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933104: Cole Porter (1891-1964), American song writer and many sophisticated classic songs including: “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Begin the Beguine,” “I've Got You Under My Skin,” and many more / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933105: Elvis Presley (1935-1977), performs on THE MILTON BERLE SHOW, April 03, 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933108: Elvis Presley (1935-1977), in a prize-winning performance portrait by Bob Moreland of the St. Petersburg Times. 1957 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933112: Leontyne Price (b. 1927), African American opera star as Bess, from George Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS. 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933120: Paul Robeson (1898-1976), addressing the World Conference of Partisans of Peace in Paris in 1949. Robeson publicly expressed his leftist politics throughout the Cold War, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933134: Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and his attorney, Milton Rudin (right), on the street, arriving for court appearance in Las Vegas concerning tax reports of a casino with which Sinatra had been involved. 1967 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933141: Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) receives the applause at Radio City on March 5, 1938 at the conclusion of the broadcast of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Toscanini was the Orchestra's conductor from 1937-1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933166: Edward Bates (1793-1869), former Whig politician was Lincoln's Attorney General. As an anti-slavery Southerner, he was a strong contender for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, but lost it to Lincoln / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933174: Edwin M. Stanton was Lincoln's second Secretary of War. Photograph by Mathew Brady c. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933181: John C. Breckenridge was one of four candidates running for the 1860 presidential election, and split the Democratic vote with Stephen Douglas, hence enabling the victory of Republican Abraham Lincoln. Breckenridge joined the Confederates as an active General and later as Confederate States Secretary of War / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933184: Death of Lincoln on April 15, 1865 (print) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933188: David E. Herold a Lincoln Assassination conspirator in maniacals at the Washington Navy Yard. This photograph was taken on one of the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, where the conspirators were for a time confined. David Herold accompanied Lewis Powell to the home of Secretary of State William Seward on the night of April 14 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934295: Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), at the White House, Washington, D.C. April 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934301: Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (1890-1950), a talented writer, married John Barrymore in 1920. They divorced in 1925 and had one child, / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934302: Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954), with his second wife, actress Irene Fenwick (1887-1936). They were married in 1924, after his marriage to Doris Rankin ended. c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934320: Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), French civil engineer and architect of the Eiffel Tower / Bridgeman Images