An Audience at the Casino.

Theaters--New York (State)--New York.

Interior architecture--New York (State)--New York.

Interior decoration--New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

An image taken from the stage toward a two-level auditorium filled with theatre goers. The orchestra pit and its members are all visible. The audience is well dressed, many men in evening wear. Designed by Architects Kimbal & Wisedell, the Casino Theatre stood on this corner from 1882 to 1930. It was renovated and partially reconstructed in 1905 following a fire. For approximately 50 years, some under the management of the Shuberts, the theatre showed musicals, operettas and vaudeville acts.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

E. Idell Zeisloft, ed., The New Metropolis (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1899), 355.

ca. 1899

Unknown

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Photographs

Broadway at West 39th Street

Interior of Koster and Bial's Music Hall.

Theaters--New York (State)--New York.

Herald Square (New York, N.Y.)

Interior architecture--New York (State)--New York.

Interior decoration--New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Interior view of Koster and Bail's Music Hall from the stage toward the audience. Six levels of seating are visible including ornate box seats, mezzanine seating and high balcony bench-style seating. A prominent vaudeville venue from 1893 to 1901, this theatre was demolished in order to build Macy's Department Store.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

E. Idell Zeisloft, ed., The New Metropolis (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1899), 351.

ca. 1899

Unknown

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Photographs

Broadway and 34th Street

The Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Arranged for an Entertainment.

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.)

Interior architecture--New York (State)--New York.

Interior decoration--New York (State)--New York.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Ballrooms.

Photograph depicting the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel with the stage set for a performance and the floor filled with seating.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Robert Stewart, "The Hotels of New York," Munsey's Magazine in The New New York, 77.

Undated

The American Architect, Boston

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Photographs

Fifth Avenue and 34th Street