Poster for a concert by Nina Simone and The Vogues at Bushnell Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut, November 1968.

The Vogues original lineup consisted of Bill Burkette (lead baritone), Don Miller (baritone), Hugh Geyer (first tenor), and Chuck Blasko (second tenor).

Song in the Twilight by Franz Sedlacek - 1931

The Singer in Green by Edgar Degas - ca. 1884

Vaudeville Musicians by Charles Demuth - 1917

Violinist and Audience by Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman - 1942

Cabinet card image of two performers playing stringed instruments. Labeled 'European comic eccentric 'Bonitas' family'. Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University 1918 or earlier

Theater company at the table with a chamber orchestra, anonymous, 1920 - 1935

Flier for the 87 Def Jam Tour at the Oakland Coliseum - 1987.

THE 87 DefJam TOUR:

L.L. COOL J
WHODINI
ERIC B. & RAKIM
NEW CHOICE
ROXANNE SHANTE
Too Short

Flier for the “NY’s Best in Concert” presented by Mix Master Mike and Disco Dave September - 1983

A flier for “Chief Rocker Busy Bee's Birthday,” at Ecstasy Garage, October 1980.

Sunday, February 7, 1980 – Flyer by Buddy Esquire - Ecstasy Garage Disco - Brothers Disco - DJs Breakout & Baron, Cold Crush Crew - Charlie Chase, Tony-Tone.

A flier advertising a rap battle at the P.A.L at 183 Street and Webster Avenue in the Bronx, New York City, on May 11, 1979, designed by Buddy Esquire (Lenoin Thompson III).

A handbill flier for the Krush Groove Christmas Party, live from Madison Square Garden - 1985.

Friday, December 27, 1985 – Madison Square Garden – Krush Groove X-mas Party - Run-DMC, Whodini, Kurtis Blow, LL COOL J, Doug E Fresh, Mr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde (handbill, white with black & bright yellow printing).

Band design for Erich Kästner, Everyday Cares. Songs and prose 1945-1948 (Der tägliche Kram).

Emil Erich Kästner (23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1960 for his autobiography Als ich ein kleiner Junge war [de]. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Hellé: Opéra en 4 actes by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - 1896

Leonetto Cappiello, Poster, 'Macaronis Ferrari Opera Paris', 1904

Louis Anquetin : 1861-1932 Titre - Marguerite Dufay dans son répertoire Editeur - Imp. Edw. Ancourt, Paris Date - 1899.

In 1899, Louis Anquetin (1861-1932), a respected anti-Impressionist artist, published this lithograph of trombonist Marguerite Dufay. Part of the “Les Maitre de L’Affiches” series, it portrays a woman categorized among comique excentrique entertainers of the popular Parisian music cafes. Marguerite Dufay is said to have performed throughout Paris at its many music halls.

Edison Phonograph Ad by Alfred S. Seer - c.1878.

The wonderful two-headed nightingale - the eighth wonder of the world - Sanger's Royal Amphitheatre. J. W. Last & Co. Date (1877).

Advertisement Poster for the German Piano Manufacturer C. Bechstein published around 1920.

Julius Bittner’s Opera Der Musikant by Koloman Moser - 1909

Alfred Roller : Gustav Mahler, Uraufführung der VIII Symphonie (Gustav Mahler, Premiere of Eighth Symphony) - Poster for world premiere of Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony in Der neue Musik Festhalle, Munich, Germany - 1910

President Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House - December 12 1970

Print of the poster for Starseed Benefits 'See' with Allen Ginsberg, Barry Melton, Michael McClure and the Sufi Choir, 1973.

Starseed is a 1973 book by Timothy Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996), an American psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. He was "a hero of American consciousness", according to Allen Ginsberg.

In 1973, Leary was sent to Folsom Prison in California, and put in solitary confinement.

Little Variety Act with Singer by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - c. 1909

Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y., - Nov. 1946 by William P. Gottlieb

Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., - Feb. 1947 - William Gottlieb (Large).

Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister at Downbeat in New York by William P. Gottlieb - 1947.

Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics - c.1890–1920

Madama Butterfly by Adolfo Hohenstein - 1914. Madama Butterfly |(Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Barnum & Bailey - The Greatest Show On Earth - Wonderful performing geese, roosters and musical donkey - 1902.

Wiener Werkstätte Postcard by Rudolf Kalvach - c. 1908

Metropolitan Opera House, New York - a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann - 28 November 1937.

Les Cloches de Corneville - Opera Comique en 3 Actes & 4 Tableaux - Paroles de Clairville & Ch. Gabet Robert. Plaquette France, c. 1900 by Cândido de Faria.

Les cloches de Corneville (The Bells of Corneville, sometimes known in English as The Chimes of Normandy) is an opéra-comique in three acts, composed by Robert Planquette to a libretto by Louis Clairville and Charles Gabet.

Ambassadeurs Paulus by Faria - 1899.

Stieny Le Caméléon Musical France by Cândido de Faria - c. 1895

Yvette Guilbert in Les Ambassadeurs by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - 1894.

With a few deft strokes and patches of color, Steinlen conjures up an almost life-size image of the singer Guilbert in her trademark simple gown and black gloves as she prepares to go on stage. During her act at les Ambassadeurs she would stand almost perfectly still, gesturing with her long arms as she half-sang and half-spoke the raunchy lyrics of popular songs, some of them her own. A savvy self-promoter she commissioned her own posters and was also a favored subject of the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. - MOMA

Angela on the Album Shoot for Bon Jovi by Mark Weiss, 1986.

Mark Weiss:

The album was done. Three-hundred-thousand copies, with Angela in her provocatively cut wet t-shirt clinging to her 34DD breasts, had already been released in Japan. Everything was ready to go in the US. But this was 1986, and the PMRC was in full swing. Record stores were telling the labels to ease up on the explicit content and imagery or they wouldn’t sell the products. Polygram knew they had a smash album on their hands, and they didn’t want to jeopardize that success. They also knew the music stood on its own, so we went back to the drawing board to come up with another cover. Mercury destroyed nearly 500,000 copies before they ever left the warehouse to be distributed in the U.S.

Jon had issues with the Angela cover as well. Only in his mind, it was more about the color of the border around the photo than the actual photo itself.

Recently he told Howard Stern that his thinking was, “My career is over if we put out a hot pink album cover.” But if the pink border was the problem, why not just take it out?

I asked him what we were going to do and he replied: “I don’t know, but this is our last chance or the album gets held up.” Jon arrived at my studio, walked inside and didn’t even say hello. “Garbage bag. Spray bottle,” was all he said. I followed orders. I propped up the black bag and sprayed it with an oil and water mixture. Then Jon wrote the words SLIPPERY WHEN WET. As he was leaving he said, “That’s it. That’s their cover.” He didn’t even wait to see the Polaroid. The next day I delivered the photo, and the rest is history.

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Madame X's Maxine Petrucci by Mark Weiss in 1986. 

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Ozzy Osbourne taking a leak by Mark Weiss, 1984. 

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"I put prints in sealed plastic envelopes back with white board packed with strong cardboard preventing bends. Guaranteed not to be bent or a new print will be shipped," Mark Weiss. 

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