a 1922 stage design
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Leon Bakst
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a 1921 orchestra pit see full size
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an illustration about overacting in 1855
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a poster for British transit by Margaret Calkin James, 1929
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an 1897 live theater illusion see full size
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a 1913 theater audience
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pre-recorded theater music in 1929 was protested by musicians see full size
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a Ronald Searle illustration for Holiday Magazine, 1968
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"Dainty Marie" a 1915 Vaudeville performer
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"Charmon - The Perfect Woman" 1915 Vaudeville
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a Marcello Dudovich 1899 poster for Puccini's opera 'Tosca'
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Maurits Cornelis Escher, 1920
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a Mabel Dwight print, 1925 see full size
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1928 see full size
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1930s cinema door handles
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1938 see full size
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a louvered cinema screen in 1952
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a 1960 theater seat ash receptacle
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a Rick Meyerowitz illustration, 1972
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François Schuiten
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an Arthur Getz illustration for the New Yorker Magazine
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Charles Burns see full size
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a Bruno Vetterli 1945 circus poster
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a Joseph Christian Leyendecker illustration
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"You know who I really hate? Circus folk! ... I say we go way way across town to where those circus folk live and SHUN them! ... We're not obsessed with you! Not in the least!"
a Rod Filbrandt cartoon
a Rod Filbrandt cartoon
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Seymour Chwast
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by Mary K. Brown, 1980