Performing Collection

Couples Dancing at Steeplechase Park
(Original Caption) 6/11/1944-JAM SESSION.... There is even a corner for the hepcats at Steeplechase Park

Dance Partners in German "Rubber-Legged" Contest
Ilse Kuffler does a musical somersault while dancing with Carl Dirr. The Munich couple placed third in the "Rubber-Legged" contest

Josephine Baker W/Hands In Air
(Original Caption) Josephine Baker is shown in a jubilant pose, her hands extended way up in the air. Ca. 1956

Marilyn Monroe Sings for Troops
(Original Caption) 2/18/1954- Korea: The power of a woman. Over 10, 000 GI's turn out to hear and see Marilyn Monroe as the bosomy blonde makes an appearance in Korea, February 16th

Jerry Lee Lewis Singing atop a Piano
Standing atop a piano, rock n roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis gives an enthusiastic performance at the Cafe de Paris in New York City on June 10, 1958

Joan Sutherland as Lucia in Lucia Di Lammermoor
(Original Caption) Joan Sutherland performs her most famous role, Lucia in Lucia Di Lammermoor, for the television show she is filming

Keith Moon Playing the Drums During Tommy
Keith Moon, drummer with the British rock group The Who, plays the drums intensely during a performance of the rock opera Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan

Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder Singing
Mick Taylor (L) and Mick Jagger (C) of the Rolling Stones perform with Stevie Wonder (R) at Madison Square Garden

The Dodge Twins
(Original Caption) 5/8/1929- New York, NY: Photo shows Beth and Betty, the Dodge twins, as they arrived here after four years after being the outstanding attraction in Paris

Shoshoni Dancers at Fort Washakie
A group Shoshoni dance at the Fort Washakie reservation in Wyoming. Standing at far left, with his arm outstretched, is Chief Washakie

Scene From The Mikado
Fred Billington plays Poo-Bah and George Thorne plays Ko-Ko in an 1885 New York production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado

Magician Pulling Cards from Jacket
(Original Caption) Magician producing long sheets of cards from man's jacket. Undated photograph. BPA 2 #2918

Theodore Thomas And His Orchestra
(Original Caption) Theodore Thomas and his orchestra at Steinway Hall, New York, April 17, 1890. Photograph

All-Black Military Band Performing
(Original Caption) Auteuil, France-World War I: Jim Europe and his all Black Military Band at Auteuil, France. Photograph

Marcel Marceau Performing
(Original Caption) Marcel Marceau, French Pantomime during a performance. Undated Photo

Benny Goodman And His Orchestra
(Original Caption) Benny Goodman and his orchestra. Undated photograph

Three Black Men Performing; Band
(Original Caption) New Orleans, LA: Comedians, Skete and Pete perform in Prima's 500 Club in the French Quarter. There are 3 men in the act, they call temselves Skete and Pete

Jazz Pianist Fats Waller At The Organ
(Original Caption) Fats Waller, jazz pianist, at the organ. Undated photograph

Frank Sinatra Singing into Microphone
(Original Caption) Waist-up portrait of singer/actor Frank Sinatra singing into an NBC microphone. Undated photograph

Magician Leon Harrmann
(Original Caption) Magician Leon Harrmann performing a trick. Photograph

Trainier With Jumping White Horse
(Original Caption) Action shot at the Spanish riding school in Vienna, Austria. Shows a Lipizzaner stallion performing a capriole from the hand. Undated photograph

Leonid Massine Does Exaggerated Walk
(Original Caption) Leonide Massine (1896-1979), Russian dancer and choreographer doing a cake walk. Undated photograph

Benny Goodman & Martha Tilton Performing
(Original Caption) Manhattan Beach, NY- Martha Tilton and Benny Goodman are settling down in New Yrok this fall

Mechanized Band Playing Instruments
(Original Caption) "Remarkable Performing Automata, " - mechanical band playing music. Undated engraving

James Cagney Performing In Movie Scene
A scene from the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy

Al Jolson With Blackface Performing
(Original Caption) Al Jolson with blackface performing on stage in "The Singing Fool." Movie still. A Warner Bros. Production

Street Musician Performs With Puppets
(Original Caption) A sketch at Naples - A street musician performs with puppets. Undated engraving. BPA2# 4978

Poster Of Trapeze Artists 1890
(Original Caption) Trapeze artists swinging through air. Lithograph, 1890. BPA2# 698

Ella Fitzgerald Performing Full Length
(Original Caption) Ella Fitzgerald, famous American blues singer during a performance. Undated photograph

Phyllis Diller Onstage Full Length
(Original Caption) Actress and comedienne Phyllis Diller (b. 1917) performing onstage, holding a pocketbook and wearing gloves. Undated photograph

Woman Swallowing Sword at Sideshow
(Original Caption) A circus woman performs a sword swallowing trick. Undated photograph

Phyllis Diller Profile Onstage
(Original Caption) Actress and comedienne Phyllis Diller (b. 1917), from a profile view while performing onstage. Undated photograph

Glenn Miller And His Orchestra Perform
(Original Caption) Bandleader Glenn Miller and his orchestra perform for the Chesterfield Radio Show, circa 1940-41

W.C. Fields Juggling Top Hats
1900-W. C. Field in his younger days, juggling hats during a vaudeville skit. Photograph, May 1900

Girl Dancing the "Charleston"
Harriet Fowler wins the "Charleston Contest" in the 1920's

Louis Armstrong Performing with his Band
Jazz musician Louis Armstrong performing with his band. Undated photograph

Stunt Performer Schindler in Flight
Stunt performer Schindler balances above the cockpit of a stunt plane. He was killed moments later when his plane collided with another

Indian Braves Performing War Songs
(Original Caption) Indian braves performing war songs in front of a grammaphone. Photograph, 1913

Houdini Hanging Above Subway Tracks
Spectators watch as escape artist Harry Houdini frees himself from a straightjacket while he hangs from a hook above a subway

Men Performing Ax Throwing Stunt
(Original Caption) Lupino Lane standing against door of fire station while his brother, Wallace Lupino, surrounds him with hatchets he is throwing. B/W movie still photograph

Jazz Band Performing in Berlin
(Original Caption) Berlin, Germany: Photo shows a happy Jazz Band in Berlin, Germany. Undated photograph, circa 1920

Young Judy Garland with the Gumm Sisters on Stage
(Original Caption) Judy Garland (left) and her two sisters as they appeared in their first professional stage appearance in Los Angeles

Circus Acts
(Original Caption) A general view of circus acts performing. In the ring are clowns, the ringmaster and an acrobat atop a horse. Ca. 1920-1940

Floor Show from The Cotton Club
(Original Caption) Floor show from the famous Harlem night club, "The Cotton Club", featuring leggy row of chorus girls. Photograph, 1920's

Performing on Brighton Beach
(Original Caption) 7/18/1922-Brooklyn, NY: Miss Dorothy Jardon was the featured member of musical favorites who appeared at the Brighton Beach Pavillion recently

Minstrel Group of Edward Le Roy Rice
(Original Caption) 1925: Minstrel group of Edward Le Roy Rice performing "At the White House." Photograph

Ruth Hiatt Singing
Comic actress Ruth Hiatt holds a score of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and sings

Jazz Orchestra Playing in Venetian Pool
(Original Caption) 2/28/26-Coral Gables, Florida: In the beautiful Venetian Pool at Coral Gables, Fla

Woman Playing a Saxophone
A member of a jazz band in a Viennese night cafe

The Jazz Singer Playing at Warners Theatre
A huge billboard on the side of Warners Theatre in New York advertises The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie", in 1927

Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake at Piano
American composer Noble Sissle (Left) and pianist Eubie Blake (Right), at the piano, 1927. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Southern Belles From Ziegfield Follies
(Original Caption) The Original Ziegfield Follies of 1927: Southern Belles. Photograph

Trio W/Clay Jackson, Durante Performing
(Original Caption) 1927-New York, NY: The famed Clayton Jackson and Durante trio performing in a New York, nightclub, 1972

Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
Al Jolson, in blackface, as Jakie Rabinowitz, in The Jazz Singer, the first "talking" motion picture. (Photo by AS400 DB/Bettmann Archive)

Joseph De Vigilio on Stilts on Rooftop
(Original Caption) September 24, 1927 - Boston, Massachusetts: Photo shows Joseph De Vigilio who calls himself the modern Longfellow and who to judge from the picture lives up to that name

Irving Berlin Singing
Irving Berlin sings at the dedication of the Los Angeles City Hall

Russian Troika on Ice at Winter Olympics
(Original Caption) Russian Troika performing on ice during the 1928 Winter Olympics at St. Moritz

The Glenn Miller Orchestra
A movie still of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in their appearance during the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade

Frank Sinatra at CBS Radio Microphone
The young Frank Sinatra, probably still in his teens, sings into a CBS microphone with his hands on his hips

Louis Armstrong and Jazz Combo Playing
American jazz musicians Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Barney Bigard (l to r) during a concert

Al Jolson with Band
(Original Caption) Al Jolson singing with band. Undated Photograph

Bandleader Glenn Miller and Singer Ray Eberle
Bandleader Glenn Miller playing his trumpet with Ray Eberle as the featured singer. Undated photograph

Floor Show Dancers at the Tropicana
Costumed dancers perform in a floor show at the Tropicana nightclub in Havana

Cootie Williams Playing Trumpet at the Savoy
Cootie Williams plays his trumpet in a crowed Harlem ballroom with Duke Ellington's band in the 1930s. With Ellington's band, Williams found his trademark sound--the growl

Rumba Dancers Performing Poolside
These five pretty dancers are giving a demonstration of the popular dance of the tropics, the Rumba, at the Nautilus Bath Club

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Flying Down to Rio
(Original Caption) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing in moving picture "Flying Down to Rio." Movie Still

Jack Pearl Toasting the End of Prohibition
Popular radio performers Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall perform in front of the Michel brewery in Brooklyn

Ginger Rogers Fan Dance for Movie
Ginger Roger performs a fan dance for the movie "Sitting Pretty"

Fred Waring And Lane Sisters
Band leader Fred Waring directs his orchestra as the Lane Sisters sing

Quintette de Hot Club de France
(Original Caption) Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) and Stephane Grappelli, of the Quintet de Hot Club de France. Photograph, ca. 1934

Dancers Performing at the Cotton Club
An audience at Harlem's Cotton Club, a popular night club, watches a performance

Woman in Military Beauty Contest
(Original Caption) 8/22/1934-Venice, CA: Alma Carroll, wearing an Army overseas cap, has answered the beauty draft call here, where "Miss America of National Defense"

Grable Dancing on Movie Set
Movie star Betty Grable dances with choreographer Hermes Pan on a movie set. Actress Evelyn Poe tries to break in between the pair

Amos and Andy During Their Radio Program
(Original Caption) 9/1/1935-: For the first time since they went on the air, "Amos N Andy, " this week allowed photographers to snap them during their nationwide radio program

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Dancing
Fred Astaire plays John "Lucky" Garnett and Ginger Rogers plays Penelope "Penny" Carroll in the musical number "Pick Yourself Up" in the 1936 film Swing Time

Edna May Harris Singing on Stage
Edna May Harris performs during the Red, White, and Blue Ball, given for Elsa Maxwell at the Waldorf Astoria

Conductor and Singer at Radio Station
Radio singer Gladys Swarthout and CBS Musical Director Lud Gluskin during a broadcast presented in behalf of the National Mobilization for Human Needs

Girl Performing an Acrobatic Pose
(Original Caption) 12/6/1937- Picture shows Barbara Kempson, 12, is shown performing a acrobatic pose on a drum

Dancing in African American Church Service
A preacher encourages his congregation in their dancing as he plays a guitar behind his head. December 14, 1937

Cab Calloway Leads Orchestra at New Year's Ball
American bandleader and singer Cab Calloway leads an orchestra during a New Year's Ball at the Cotton Club in New York, 1937. | Location: Cotton Club, New York, New York, USA

Orson Welles Broadcasting for CBS
(Original Caption) Orson Welles: 1915-[1985]. American actor and producer, broadcasting for CBS in 1938. Four photographs. (montage)

The Earl Hines Orchestra
(Original Caption) The Earl Hines Orchestra of 1938. Photograph

The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra Performing
Jimmie Lunceford leads his band as they perform

Goodman and Krupa Playing Together
Swing band leader and clarinetist Benny Goodman and drummer Gene Krupa play swing for jitterbugging

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