Theatre

3,000 playbills from the United States and Europe. The playbills include drama, dance, music, and film productions from 1966–1987.

Five hundred volumes that includes a fine representation of the early editions of the works of John Dryden (1631–1700), with associated contemporary items.

Wickes Collection was assembled by Elbert A. Wickes, theatrical impresario and manager of lecture tours for world celebrities, including Winston Churchill and William Butler Yeats. The collection brings together photographs and books (often inscribed to Wickes) of the celebrities whose tours he arranged, and papers relating to the Abbey Players of Dublin whose three American tours he produced and managed.

Over ten thousand books, pamphlets, and periodicals, two thousand letters by well-known individuals associated with the theater, two hundred framed portraits, posters, photographs, and set and costume designs, a large collection of loose portraits, English and American playbills, manuscripts, and several stage models.

Useful to consult for props and costumes.

The Image Gallery includes over 530,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.