https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/precarious-women daily 0.75 2019-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1550632012887-UFEPC6ZSBJ40YAK5UR8I/Fluffy+2.png Precarious Women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1550632012887-UFEPC6ZSBJ40YAK5UR8I/Fluffy+2.png Precarious Women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1550631602328-8QCV2G1QR09R691S8B0M/Fluffy+Ruffles.png Precarious Women - Precarious Women A new project exploring the financial and physical precarity of working women across American media from 1900-1930 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/books daily 0.75 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1647024551812-3FW45FN7S8Z7CXCDFR1G/subway+exit.jpg Books - Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway Underground Movements illustrate the subway's central importance as a site of abstract connection, both between different parts of the city and between city dwellers who ride the train together. Available at Amazon and UMass Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1647024551812-3FW45FN7S8Z7CXCDFR1G/subway+exit.jpg Books - Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway Underground Movements illustrate the subway's central importance as a site of abstract connection, both between different parts of the city and between city dwellers who ride the train together. Available at Amazon and UMass Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1647024750720-PAGYLQGZ18OB65WG56XF/Modernism+Tech+cover.jpg Books - The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology My chapter included in this anthology: “Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose.” Order at EU Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1647035740333-55QZTZNI3QDIW956H9W0/imitation-artist.jpg Books https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/tank-acts daily 0.75 2019-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1552082889945-754AECT32TS7E0MFCQ4R/night+at+the+bath.png Tank Acts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1552082889945-754AECT32TS7E0MFCQ4R/night+at+the+bath.png Tank Acts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1552082407032-UMARJGHKR7S6TF7OLW8A/Annette_Kellerman1.jpg Tank Acts - How and why did the water tank become central to vaudeville? This project considers the evolution of contained onstage water as a site of spectacle from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1552081825766-DOMUC1W285ZYC8UC2FTH/image.jpg Tank Acts https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/research daily 0.75 2020-02-25 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome daily 0.75 2026-02-23 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2026/2/23/the-closing-ceremony-and-the-grand-opera-ball monthly 0.5 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a0477c2a-73ee-4362-a283-5c10ebef807c/opera+olympics+on+x.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Closing Ceremony and the Grand Opera Ball - Make it stand out A picture of the stage from the closing ceremony of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics as posted on Twitter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/863a78d2-ffe0-4c7a-9a87-fbaebe8433d4/box-7-folder-1-113647.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Closing Ceremony and the Grand Opera Ball - Make it stand out “Better Times Theatrical Production - Box 7 Folder 1,” image, New York Public Library, January 1, 1922, https://picryl.com/media/box-7-folder-1-113647. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/dd80f72f-0454-4227-b1f6-459f16abf1a7/grand+opera+lyrics.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Closing Ceremony and the Grand Opera Ball - Make it stand out “Better Times: A Super-Musical Spectacle in Three Acts - NYPL Digital Collections,” accessed February 23, 2026, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/85951290-4285-0132-84ec-58d385a7bbd0?canvasIndex=18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/66c329c8-2b4c-4b86-86e3-99058dee09a7/opera+book+cover.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Closing Ceremony and the Grand Opera Ball - Make it stand out placeholder cover for forthcoming book by Kristen Turner called The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Popular Music Stage https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/10/15/entertaining-the-masses monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/ed083d36-9d6b-4c64-8453-63f82b1e136f/masses+cover+november+1916.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Entertaining the Masses - Make it stand out Cover for the November 1916 issue of The Masses, via Modernist Journals Project https://modjourn.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/fa73686c-0e87-4a38-92d1-91f5459c7f72/Die_Weber_1897_by_Emil_Orlik.jpeg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Entertaining the Masses - Make it stand out A poster from the original production of The Weavers in 1897 via Wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Weber_1897_by_Emil_Orlik.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/3db0a29b-6cb5-4630-9ee6-c7f8c69253a5/The_Dolly_Sisters_in__His_Bridal_Night__%281916%29.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Entertaining the Masses - Make it stand out White Studio - New-York Tribune (New York [N.Y.]), June 4, 1916 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1916-06-04/ed-1/?sp=13 Via Wikimedia https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/8/31/elephants-cut-from-the-act monthly 0.5 2025-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/d6d28498-d019-4549-a3c2-4ec561eb9231/unnamed.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Elephants cut from the act - Make it stand out A cat sleeps on a raised part of the desk, her face on the keyboard portion of a laptop where a picture of three elephants is displayed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/68ad5646-4c70-476a-8834-bacdcf1a2b77/Salmaggi.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Elephants cut from the act - Make it stand out A picture of Salmaggi from the Edward Ansara book The Fabulous Maestro: A Remembrance of Alfredo Salmaggi and His Legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/65dc61a1-c3c0-4ff3-9faa-c44b46e4be5c/Irving_Place_Theatre.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Elephants cut from the act - Make it stand out I can’t find a picture of Giglio, but this is a picture of the Irving Place Theater, where he ran Italian-language movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Place_Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/dcd4e8f8-ef8c-4428-8686-2f0688b00632/CCC-Lea-Stuart-dancers-776x1024.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Elephants cut from the act - Make it stand out Claire Lea and Charles Stuart strike a tree pose in the club gardens Source: https://nyacknewsandviews.com/blog/2023/06/a-colorful-4th-of-july-extravaganza-at-the-clarkstown-country-club/ https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/8/4/whos-that-woman-follies-keeping-me-from-the-hippodrome monthly 0.5 2025-08-04 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/6/9/boxing-and-anti-fascism monthly 0.5 2025-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/d74903a6-1de8-48f7-a081-00cc0d104aae/17495235676044678557088109389284.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Mike Jacobs's Offices, or Boxing and Anti-Fascism - Make it stand out Newspaper ad for Diamond Jim and the “Small-Time Cavalcade” show at the Chicago vaudeville/movie theater called the Palace. c. late 1935-early 1936. Via https://rss.listal.com/movie/diamond-jim/concept-art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/d22d65c7-1ebb-4a18-9122-570da043e4aa/Mike_Jacobs_1942.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Mike Jacobs's Offices, or Boxing and Anti-Fascism - Make it stand out Jacobs, circa 1942 ringside at the Henry Armstrong/Barney Ross bout at the Madison Square Garden Bowl, Long Island City, Queens, New York on May 31, 1938. Los Angeles Daily News via Wikimedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jacobs_(boxing)#/media/File:Mike_Jacobs_1942.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/cd08699f-adf9-4c60-8f68-78d8fb3da6c5/NMAAHC-2013_120_12_2_001.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Mike Jacobs's Offices, or Boxing and Anti-Fascism - Make it stand out Frame advertisement for the rematch between Louis and Schmeling in June 1938.Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. https://collections.si.edu/search/record/ark:/65665/fd5af0e213de1e34db0b3cb952722679cde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/ef606b07-f859-4b8b-a6a9-7fc125196923/Sidewalk+Speculators+cropped.JPG Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Mike Jacobs's Offices, or Boxing and Anti-Fascism - Make it stand out Chapman, John. “Sidewalk Specs.” New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 1933, p. 24.Via newspapers.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/d48847e7-5712-4ab6-864c-e68ff13f52e7/Madison_Square_Garden_1941_Postcard.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Mike Jacobs's Offices, or Boxing and Anti-Fascism - Make it stand out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1925)#/media/File:Madison_Square_Garden_1941_Postcard.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/4f69a820-0d89-42ca-aac2-1135f833356f/Oppose+protest+pic+edit.JPG Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Mike Jacobs's Offices, or Boxing and Anti-Fascism - Make it stand out “Oppose Maxie’s Fight Here.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 19 Nov. 1937, p. 36. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/4/12/one-womans-impressions-of-the-hippodromes-opening monthly 0.5 2025-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/43fd32ea-a5c0-4777-b056-eedad66f0272/One+woman%27s+impression.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - One Woman's Impressions of the Hippodrome's Opening - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/3/23/more-on-albertina-rasch monthly 0.5 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/b8c45437-3604-49dc-a776-ff505510e064/ARasch+premiere+danseuse+at+the+Hippodrome+1911+-+Hiawatha.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - More on Albertina Rasch - Make it stand out Albertina Rasch in her second season at the Hippodrome playing Ioneta, daughter of Chief Keneu “The War Eagle” in The Ballet of Niagara. Image from https://dimitritiomkin.com/biography/albertina-rasch/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/3fc3a449-e6cd-4eca-88c4-29ee4c56461a/rhapsody+in+blue.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - More on Albertina Rasch - Make it stand out Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "A moment from the Rhapsody in Blue ballet, created and staged by Madame Rasch for a company of her girls, who performed it in the Keith theaters" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1929-02. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b39b9ea7-6924-3293-e040-e00a18064a68 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/01ae2821-de52-4e35-8b27-126c91437119/dancing+in+the+dark.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - More on Albertina Rasch - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Albertina Rasch Dancers featured in The Band Wagon" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1931. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-3883-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/1/26/murdock-pembertons-poems monthly 0.5 2025-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/621adc2e-c45d-4c33-b3bc-d0b7eeea53d9/murdock-pemberton.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Murdock Pemberton's Poems - Make it stand out Image from Llyn Towner. The New Yorker’s First Art Critic: A Portrait of Murdock Pemberton. 17 July 2013, https://waamblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/the-new-yorkers-first-art-critic-a-portrait-of-murdock-pemberton/.. The New Yorker’s First Art Critic: A Portrait of Murdock Pemberton. 17 July 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/40410ed5-d1b1-4e74-964b-f2ff5b20b472/algonquin+hotel+W_44_St_Sep_2021_01.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Murdock Pemberton's Poems - Make it stand out Picture of the Algonquin hotel in September 2021 by epicgenius via Wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel#/media/File:W_44_St_Sep_2021_01.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/5af15180-cf9d-4a29-9ae8-66a3cd80b200/Better+Times+cover.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Murdock Pemberton's Poems - Make it stand out The cover for 1922-1923 Hippodrome show Better Times, from https://www.tumblr.com/newyorkthegoldenage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/41d2f0e3-0bd1-4ac2-afc0-bd8551791012/long+tack+sam.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Murdock Pemberton's Poems - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Long Tack Sam (magician)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 2020. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-18ae-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2025/1/6/how-do-you-find-comp-titles-for-something-thats-incomparable monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/4fb4810d-b6f7-45a7-9e01-9a568b40efc4/Subway+Map+Everything+Manhattan+Map+detail.jpeg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - How do you find comp titles for something that's incomparable? - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "New York City subway map with Everything cover" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1918 - 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/822ed850-61fe-0132-7188-58d385a7b928 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/377ad539-cee2-4766-a854-7bd0682ec6da/Butterbeans_Susie.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - How do you find comp titles for something that's incomparable? - Make it stand out Butterbeans and Susie, a comedy duo who made their name on the T.O.B.A. circuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterbeans_and_Susie#/media/File:Butterbeans_Susie.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/fdbd081d-3393-45b8-b23b-5dc382592b9c/women%27s+house+of+detention.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - How do you find comp titles for something that's incomparable? - Make it stand out Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. "Women's House of Detention" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935 - 1943. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/77782ee0-d56d-0131-f1ac-58d385a7bbd0 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/11/12/passengers-getting-to-the-hippodrome-and-feeling-transported-in-your-seats monthly 0.5 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/12ee4bbf-4121-4fb5-8f86-86269a3398b6/Say+Why+Don%27t+You+Get+a+Horse.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Passengers: getting to the Hippodrome and feeling transported in your seats - Make it stand out Detail from O’Sullivan, Burns. Untitled (A Yankee Circus on Mars) : Drawing, Undated. The New York Hippodrome : Drawings, 1905-1908. 1905. https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:495365297$1i. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, MS Thr 1716 (Folder 1). Accessed 6 Oct. 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/dd30f60a-28c4-4512-af93-6151010ea8d8/Around+the+World.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Passengers: getting to the Hippodrome and feeling transported in your seats - Make it stand out Inside front cover of Around the World program, Arthur Voegtlin Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/90ed1459-15e1-4bab-9b04-e6ded2777901/If+you+havent.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Passengers: getting to the Hippodrome and feeling transported in your seats - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "New York City subway map with Everything cover" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1918 - 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/822ed850-61fe-0132-7188-58d385a7b928 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/b17b48f4-b51a-4f5e-ad3d-d7c8bde8f106/Subway+Map+Everything+Manhattan+Map+detail.jpeg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Passengers: getting to the Hippodrome and feeling transported in your seats - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "New York City subway map with Everything cover" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1918 - 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/822ed850-61fe-0132-7188-58d385a7b928 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/8/30/the-memory-palace-true-short-stories-of-the-past monthly 0.5 2024-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/93da7fe6-4b34-4e92-a969-7712482d1eae/cardiff.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past - Make it stand out The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "View in Cardiff Glen, near Fort Dodge, Iowa." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1873. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-6206-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/cd113901-48dd-4650-b250-3ded9591536c/sandhogs.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past - Make it stand out Seymour B. Durst The Hudson & Manhattan Tunnels: Uniting New York and New Jersey in Picture and Story. American Photograph Co., 1908. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100854803. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/8/14/the-hippodrome-demolition monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/7/30/s6w0qyjmk0j0mjj7pksl27u0aiqai6 monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/ab9337fa-93da-4a89-b428-2f5fa7f76d63/Fred+Thompson+Toyland+LOC.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Come Along to Toytown - Make it stand out Fred Thompson with sketches for Toyland, George Grantham Bain collection, Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.21555/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/e524cfa2-98a2-4fa7-9379-dc6db6a187a1/A+Scene+from+Toyland+from+HHH.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Come Along to Toytown - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Hippodrome souvenir booklet for Hip! Hip! Hooray!" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/440c9950-2bf0-0132-63be-58d385a7bbd0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/d63b8eee-c205-409a-838a-d8b395425f60/Kiddies+scene+Mark+Lawson.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Come Along to Toytown - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Kiddies' scene" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/86107850-5633-0132-725e-58d385a7bbd0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/112555d4-3d9f-438e-ad0d-3e2afaf50a78/Toytown+street+from+Light+magazine.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Come Along to Toytown - Make it stand out J. W. Henley, “Saved for the Children.” Light: The Magazine of the National Lamp Works of General Electric Company, July 1924, pp. 8–9, 32. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a8fce0a1-7f82-4c7b-95dc-90f60ea8943f/Diana_Serra_Cary_-_Jun_1922_EH.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Come Along to Toytown - Make it stand out Baby Peggy holding a Baby Peggy doll, via wikimedia Exhibitors Herald (Apr. - Jun. 1922) on the Internet Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/02c80bb3-8f3c-4b35-b6cb-f1b8e6b341b6/Kiddies+Karnival+pic+from+Whiteman+program+1925.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Come Along to Toytown - Make it stand out “Kiddies Karnival” exhibit in Toytown from Keith Hippodrome souvenir program 1925 season https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/6/17/pride-month-at-the-hippodrome monthly 0.5 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/e2aa4465-4b02-4e17-b327-960dde3e7c6a/Will+Barnes+Hippodrome+costumes.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Complicating the Chorus Girl: Pride Month at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Will R. Barnes costume designs for Get Together. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "[untitled]" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1921 - 1922. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ec1cda90-11c1-0131-c0cb-58d385a7bbd0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/f62f3df1-21e2-4945-9d67-e0d1477936cc/haresfoot+u+of+wisconsin+1949.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Complicating the Chorus Girl: Pride Month at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Haresfoot Club chorus line from a womanless musical in 1949, via https://x.com/FluffyRuffles25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/bdffa4fe-d05e-403d-9f78-46c88a56143e/Tiny+Kline+1891-1964.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Complicating the Chorus Girl: Pride Month at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Tiny Kline preparing at Disneyland, photo from National Geographic August 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/c54451a3-1b59-435e-bbad-ee5ea5ed5250/ballet+of+the+states.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Complicating the Chorus Girl: Pride Month at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Hippodrome souvenir booklet for Hip! Hip! Hooray!" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/440c9950-2bf0-0132-63be-58d385a7bbd0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/2f51ccf8-1e61-4509-a5a1-dbc805da839a/Mae+West+cover+Broadway+Brevities+August+1922.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Complicating the Chorus Girl: Pride Month at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out cover of Broadway Brevities, August 1922, via Internet Archive https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/5/8/the-hippodrome-perpetually-part-of-lost-new-york monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/7b6b5572-76d0-4097-8d32-f6a4b7a2dccf/forty-two_kids_2014.79.2.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Hippodrome: Perpetually Part of Lost New York - Make it stand out George Bellows, Forty-Two Kids (1907), National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. 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"Women on Strike, 1909." (Viewed on March 22, 2024) <http://jwa.org/media/women-strike-1909>. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/30b5d020-2fea-4f02-8395-6c471956a190/Strikers+with+sashes.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Women's History Month: Shirtwaist Strikers and Suffragists at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out “Strike Pickets.” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014684499/. Accessed 22 Mar. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/aa8a8fa3-db67-4cf0-a846-5443857ba4c5/Crowd+Girl+Strikers+Hip.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Women's History Month: Shirtwaist Strikers and Suffragists at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Girl Strikers, At Hippodrome, Cheered by 8,000 Sympathizers. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library., Anna Marble Pollock scrapbook 1909-1910 season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/26c5f98b-91dc-427f-8319-f339126dbe8a/Theresa_Malkiel.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Women's History Month: Shirtwaist Strikers and Suffragists at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Theresa Malkiel Portrait. https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/m/pics/malkiel-theresa.jpg. 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Accessed 22 Mar. 2024. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/2/25/the-fastest-game-in-the-world monthly 0.5 2024-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/ea8aee7c-6ea5-4cd9-9093-026130891060/Merkles_Boner_game_Polo_Grounds_Sept23_1908.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Fastest Game in the World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/2c3fd03c-c4c8-4b54-9603-ad2a995d617f/1000001444.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Fastest Game in the World https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/2/2/finding-my-way-into-opera-at-the-new-york-hippodromej monthly 0.5 2024-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/ab04ef48-5f0a-485f-beb3-ed2482c6bbfa/Marceline_%281927%29.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Finding my way into opera at the New York Hippodrome and re-discovering Caterina Jarboro - Make it stand out Marceline in "The Baltimore Sun" on November 20, 1927, via Newspapers.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marceline_Orbes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a7515315-6c76-40aa-80b2-e21d51c90815/Belle+Storey+as+Truth.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Finding my way into opera at the New York Hippodrome and re-discovering Caterina Jarboro - Make it stand out Belle Storey as Truth, pictured in the Dry Goods Economist, via “Costumes for ‘Good Times’ at the Hippodrome.” Deep in the Heart of Textiles, 11 Oct. 2017, https://textileranger.com/2017/10/11/costumes-for-good-times-at-the-hippodrome/. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/4df07be6-21d9-4e34-84ca-bf1ba65d0a17/caterina+jarboro.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Finding my way into opera at the New York Hippodrome and re-discovering Caterina Jarboro - Make it stand out Jarboro in what I think is her costume from Aida, on a flyer for a fundraiser in Wilmington NC. Contributed to Staton, John. “7 Diva-Worthy Moments from the Life of a Wilmington Opera Legend.” Wilmington Star-News, https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/03/27/the-diva-worthy-life-of-wilmington-opera-legend-caterina-jarboro/69987163007/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/12ab8ec7-d7c2-410d-baf2-624d6dbb8f01/Sissieretta+Jones+big.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Finding my way into opera at the New York Hippodrome and re-discovering Caterina Jarboro - Make it stand out “The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the Greatest Singer of Her Race.” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, https://www.loc.gov/resource/var.1857/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2024. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2024/1/5/mla-paper-for-biography-roundtable monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2023/12/14/architectural-elephants monthly 0.5 2023-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/5907f961-7816-4fa3-8e93-826973b03ee5/Lucy-USpatent268503_1882.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Architectural elephants - Make it stand out Patent for Zoomorphic Architecture received by James V. Lafferty, via Wikpedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/5c57d15c-a942-4eca-9739-676361c8cf25/Topsy_the_elephant.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Architectural elephants - Make it stand out An illustration of Topsy, a female Asian elephant killed at a Coney Island, New York park by electrocution on January 4, 1903. 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Tribute to Jenny Lind, this week at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out [Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters to the left, facing front, seated], Daguerreotype from Matthew Brady’s studio, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c10191/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/8a6a3710-d37e-448a-9840-adde40c3857a/Mme+Hempel+as+Jenny+Lind.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Tribute to Jenny Lind, this week at the Hippodrome - Make it stand out Newspaper story about the Carneigie Hall celebration of Lind’s centennial, New York Herald, 10/7/1920, page 9 via Chronicling America https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2023/7/21/wvbybde1nsd247lbh7ash13sacw9rq monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/3e925b36-bc55-44e1-a9bc-b3444b5c85aa/Frank+Melville+piv.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - "He Can Tell You What’s What About Animals" -- Frank Melville's circus life - 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Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Sioux Falls showing American flag flying over street, building identified as Cataract House." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1930. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-6f90-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2023/6/12/the-sordid-lives-of-the-voegtlin-men-part-2 monthly 0.5 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/69b92387-bcfe-4f63-ae6f-f7164fd0efb9/Emil+V+and+others+in+Professional+Criminals+of+America.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, Part 2 - Make it stand out Emil Voegtlin mug shot from page 111 of Thomas F. Byrnes, Professional Criminals of America (New York, Cassell & Company, 1886), http://archive.org/details/cu31924096989177. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2023/5/11/the-sordid-lives-of-the-voegtlin-men monthly 0.5 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/3fc930bc-1aaf-4f83-adb8-a7d89e49cecf/wm+voegtlin+landscape.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, part 1 - Make it stand out William Voegtlin landscape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/bd78e467-21da-4faf-b3c8-40eee81921dd/William+Voegtlin+pic+from+Bohemian+Club+1876.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, part 1 - Make it stand out William Voegtlin c.1876 from the postcard below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/06283b81-1388-490a-a867-ea3456ebae1b/bohemian+club+front.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, part 1 - Make it stand out Members of the Bohemian Club, 1876-1877, via San Francisco Public Library digital collection https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A153552 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/c2c77394-5937-4eb8-839f-298d1f3b3282/midsummer.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, part 1 - Make it stand out Image via Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive by Michael Goodman https://shakespeareillustration.org/2016/08/01/oberon-titania-puck-and-bottom/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/53ee30c6-f454-464d-bda4-ed756316879a/Voegtlin+bigamuy.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, part 1 - Make it stand out Daily Alta California, Volume 38, Number 12855, 24 June 1885, via California Digital Newspaper Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1683828292447-5194ZXOFZ2PHFULBOSZ1/Emil+V+and+others+in+Professional+Criminals+of+America.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Sordid Lives of the Voegtlin Men, part 1 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2023/3/3/venice-in-new-york-arthur-voegtlins-immersive-environments monthly 0.5 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/fa113557-550f-4521-9397-cd59e3820dbe/1280px-Crookfinale.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Venice in New York: Arthur Voegtlin's Immersive Environments - Make it stand out Final of The Black Crook via Library of Congress Prints and Photos Division. http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/var.1527/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/659e83e2-b4b5-4b55-9d3e-c03e4e11f4a0/john+duss+2.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Venice in New York: Arthur Voegtlin's Immersive Environments - Make it stand out John Duss in his bandleader’s uniform via https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/classic/john-duss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a8a39e7e-f834-40d1-aa2d-d7a27ece63d4/Madison-square2.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Venice in New York: Arthur Voegtlin's Immersive Environments - Make it stand out Postcard of the exterior of Stanford White’s Madison Square Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a936cd5a-833b-447f-be35-c537c6392697/MSG+Venice+Harpers+1903.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Venice in New York: Arthur Voegtlin's Immersive Environments - Make it stand out The design for Venice as it appeared in Harper’s Weekly April 11, 1903 via hathitrust.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/46f0960f-cb50-4f45-94ef-5cc0a8b2ec6e/dr-venice.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Venice in New York: Arthur Voegtlin's Immersive Environments - Make it stand out Canals of Venice, Dreamland, Coney Island, public domain via https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/file_sets/zg64tp22d https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2022/12/22/where-to-begin-frederick-thompson-at-the-columbian-exposition monthly 0.5 2022-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a288d883-028c-45dc-bc32-ee2dd4e3181c/Birds+Eye+View+of+the+World%27s+Columbian+Expo+LOC.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Where to Begin? Frederick Thompson at the Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out Rand Mcnally And Company. Bird's eye view of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. [S.l, 1893] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/98687181/. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/6e660467-dcd8-4bda-adb0-b5b84193158f/Frederic_Thompson_001.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Where to Begin? Frederick Thompson at the Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out New York Star (October 3, 1908) Vol.1 No.1 via Wikipedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/3642cea1-1d6e-4087-ac33-7e5b3438b0e2/Thompson+letter+header.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Where to Begin? Frederick Thompson at the Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out My photo of the letterhead for Fred Thompson’s letter home to his folks from the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, which is part of the Theater Arts Mss. Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/81a837a3-a4ef-4707-8bf4-4f15310504d7/Court+of+Honor+by+Moonlight.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Where to Begin? Frederick Thompson at the Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out Davis, George R. (George Royal). Picturesque World’s Fair : An Elaborate Collection of Colored Views : Comprising Illustrations of the Greatest Features of the Word’s Columbian Exposition and Midway Plaisance : Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Scenic and Ethnological. Chicago : W.B. Conkey, 1894. http://archive.org/details/picturesqueworl00davi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/fe580147-2973-43e7-bd54-96a861756410/%27%27Columbian_Fountain+_Columbian_Exposition%2C_Chicago%2C_1893.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Where to Begin? Frederick Thompson at the Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out ‘’Photographs of the World’s Fair: An elaborate Collection of Photographs of the Buildings, Grounds and the Exhibits of the World’s Columbian Exposition with a special description of The Famous Midway Exposition’’, The Werner Company, Chicago, 1894 via wikimedia. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2022/11/17/before-the-tiller-girls-there-was-the-pony-ballet monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a2342c9e-829f-40b7-ad0a-69817833d7cf/Training+the+Pony+Ballet.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Before the Tiller Girls, there was the Pony Ballet - Make it stand out Headline “Training the Pony Ballet” appears above arrangements of young women in a “human arch,” one standing on the shoulders of another and holding up her leg, and other acrobatic poses. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2022/8/12/cast-of-characters monthly 0.5 2022-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/0068758f-5312-4835-8516-f29af10c44f4/Frederic_Thompson_001.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out New York Star (October 3, 1908) Vol.1 No.1 via Wikipedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/033046d7-ff57-4a91-ac2e-faa16376955a/Francis+Z.jpeg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out New York Tribune (July 19, 1914) via Chronicling America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/18937172-7d4a-4ef8-9597-d318362cbb39/Arthur+V.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out Photo from Around the World souvenir program, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/15fd47da-d7c7-41cb-9b7d-70451434a924/Carroll+F.jpeg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out Photo from Around the World souvenir program, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a6cbb03c-d007-4b4d-bb5f-043a21572604/Burnside.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Hippodrome souvenir booklet for Hip! Hip! Hooray!" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/440c9950-2bf0-0132-63be-58d385a7bbd0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/02f0030a-abbf-4fbd-9e87-e3adfb5085bb/thumb_Murdock-Pemberton-1915.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out Murdock Pemberton: History’s Forgotten Tastemaker | Kansas Public Radio. https://kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/murdock-pemberton-historys-forgotten-tastemaker. Accessed 16 Aug. 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/0f08d686-a68c-4431-8541-da6afe649347/A1_589+Photo+portrait+Albertina+Rasch+1920s%2C+Arthur+Murray+Studio.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Backstage at the Hippodrome Cast of Characters - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2022/7/4/american-onstage-and-onscreen monthly 0.5 2022-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/7990e45f-a298-4419-8e2b-37461989672f/USA+Limited+picture+from+America+in+archives+for+RHB+correspondence.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - USA Limited -- thinking about collective movement on stage and on the street - Make it stand out “USA Limited” number from America, White Studios photo, included in a letter from Charles B. Dillingham to R.H. Burnside, May 17, 1917. Box 6. R.H. Burnside Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/fd997ad7-67b3-4d44-806a-e1a71323c629/America+program+cover+LPA.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - USA Limited -- thinking about collective movement on stage and on the street - Make it stand out Cover of America Hippodrome Souvenir Program, 1913-1914 season, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Library for the Performing Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/554ccb70-17cf-4b5b-b33d-1b952ed88628/Suffrage+rally+pic+in+America+1913+HRC.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - USA Limited -- thinking about collective movement on stage and on the street - Make it stand out “Suffrage Parade Photo,” Box 46, America folder. Production Photographs Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/0541201a-7fdd-41ad-98cc-27a75564e4c8/Suffrage_parade-New_York_City-May_6_1912.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - USA Limited -- thinking about collective movement on stage and on the street - Make it stand out Originally copyright by American Press Association, published 1912, courtesy of Library of Congress via Wikimedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/5cc68c5e-016d-4458-aa33-797e6c07a812/1917_Silent_Parade_first_blood-1200x956.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - USA Limited -- thinking about collective movement on stage and on the street - Make it stand out Photo of the Silent Protest Parade where Black women dressed all in white are lead by a Black man carrying a sign that reads “The First Blood For American Independence Was Shed By a Negro, Crispus Attucks.” Photographs by Underwood and Underwood, digitized by the Beinecke Library and held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library collection Photographs of Prominent African Americans. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2022/6/8/vafruj322aywx0mqyukrr0yr3o1bl6 monthly 0.5 2022-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/d101d954-2782-46bd-a6c0-cbcc7b7ddb06/Maori+performers+in+program.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Māori performance in and around the Hippodrome: haka, tourism, and suffrage rallies - Make it stand out Performers in the souvenir program for 1909-1910 Hippodrome season, my collection. I wish I knew more about indigenous art styles at the time so I could tell if the background has any relation to the performer’s culture. Weirded out by the phrase “specially imported” in their caption, but I guess it does make the performers’ role as exotic commodities clear, doesn’t it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/db79b27b-95b5-4522-bab8-cd5d50e1cc4c/haka+illustration+from+Marble-Pollock+scrapbook.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Māori performance in and around the Hippodrome: haka, tourism, and suffrage rallies - Make it stand out “Scrapbook -- Hippodrome Season 1909-1910,” n.d. Series VII, box 57. R.H. Burnside Collection, Library of the Performing Arts. “Supes” are supernumerary actors, typically extras in a crowd scene. Their “vociferations” appear comparable to the contemporary haka performances I’ve scene in terms of crouching posture and arm position. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/04bb47fc-effe-4949-a86b-062003ddd46d/Inside+the+Earth+NYPL+digital.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Māori performance in and around the Hippodrome: haka, tourism, and suffrage rallies - Make it stand out New Zealand Maori tribe performing in the stage production Inside the Earth at the Hippodrome. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ace95ec1-ea57-290a-e040-e00a180618fb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/a09d0d61-39ac-4105-808c-e4edf93c2f33/Maori+go+to+suffrage+meeting.jpg Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - Māori performance in and around the Hippodrome: haka, tourism, and suffrage rallies - Make it stand out “Scrapbook -- Hippodrome Season 1909-1910,” n.d. Series VII, box 57. R.H. Burnside Collection, Library of the Performing Arts. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2022/5/18/paying-off-the-line-paydays-at-the-new-york-hippodrome monthly 0.5 2022-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/8137b875-f6ed-4c33-a5a0-6265eeec798c/time+card+Margaret+Townsend.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - "Paying Off the Line" -- Pay days at the New York Hippodrome - Make it stand out Time card for Margaret Townsend, who played Queen of the Mermaids in Neptune’s Daughter. Will A. Page, “How They Pay Off at the Hippodrome.” The Theatre, December 1908. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/3345eb2b-4977-4db6-bcae-d6b72202beaf/pay+line.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - "Paying Off the Line" -- Pay days at the New York Hippodrome - Make it stand out “The Saturday Pay Line Behind the Scenes at the New York Hippodrome,” The Theatre, December 1908. 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One demure, younger women’s portrait on the bottom left, a photo of a car in front of a large house in the middle, an older and more imperious looking women’s portrait on the top right https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2021/6/28/the-great-war-popular-performance-and-james-weldon-johnson-on-harry-lauder monthly 0.5 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1624896914614-0SL2BKEZU2X8JVT9YKL9/WWI-Having-Fling-Art-Young-Masses-Sept-1917.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Great War, popular performance, and James Weldon Johnson on Harry Lauder - Make it stand out An editor, capitalist, politician, and minister dance onstage, showered with money and pro-war slogans while Satan conducts the orchestra of war in a box above them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1624897270209-Y1IRGM3EUGT58HA5673H/JWJ+on+Harry+Lauder.png Backstage at the New York Hippodrome - The Great War, popular performance, and James Weldon Johnson on Harry Lauder - Make it stand out James Weldon Johnson, Harry Lauder as an Orator.” The New York Age, October 25, 1917, sec. 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Me outside Cater Hall on the Auburn University campus https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/interviews daily 0.75 2023-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1589047722203-QVSBDQOB5B8VP8DPGFFW/imitation-artist.jpg Interviews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/da5b889c-05d8-4284-bc46-c86c80be1ad4/imitation-artist.jpg Interviews - Imitation Artist interviews and podcasts Book cover Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/reviews-interviews daily 0.75 2022-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/1589041752178-4QSMO7JWDH6HS6C28773/imitation-artist.jpg Reviews - Imitation Artist Reviews Book cover Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/583544494043 daily 0.75 2020-05-09 https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/books-1 daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/52ef3ee0-754e-4af3-ba19-1e1bf944bb0d/Modernism+Tech+cover.jpg Books Including my chapter, “Subways: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/8e6f2228-cc1c-4163-9c91-70d016c9f448/imitation-artist.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/c0d472da-08f0-4397-af0a-f2ca9f5b2918/Underground+Movements+cover.jpg Books https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/current-projects daily 0.75 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c6caeca65a707acc6336b05/9ac2cb41-5fa9-4cd4-8949-f133cc6a4408/Around+the+World.jpg Current Projects Interior pages of a program for the 1911-1912 New York Hippodrome season