| | Frank S. Chanfrau as Mose, the fireboy, in Benjamin Baker's A Glance at New York, 1848 | 146 | |
| | | William C. Macready as Claude Melnotte in Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons | 148 | |
| | | The Astor Place Riot, May 10, 1849 | 151 | |
| | | Ellen Bateman as Richard III, 1850 | 167 | |
| | | Cordelia Howard as Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852 | 172 | |
| | | Mrs. George C. Howard as Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin | 172 | |
| | | The fire scene in Dion Boucicault's The Poor of New York, 1857 | 186 | |
| | | Edwin Booth as Hamlet | 192 | |
| | | Backstage at The Black Crook, 1866 | 197 | |
| | | Joseph Jefferson III as Rip Van Winkle | 201 | |
| | | Joseph Jefferson III as Bob Acres in Sheridan's The Rivals | 201 | |
| | Lotta Crabtree as the Marchioness in her play based on Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop | 205 | |
| | | George L. Fox as Clown in a scene from the pantomime, Humpty Dumpty | 207 | |
| | | Lydia Thompson, leading lady of the British Blondes | 210 | |
| | | Interior of Booth's Theatre, New York, on its opening, February 3, 1869 | 215 | |
| | | Frank Mayo in the title role of Frank Murdoch's Davy Crockett | 225 | |
| | | Tommaso Salvini as Othello | 230 | |
| | | Eliza Weathersby, demure comedienne of Evangeline | 234 | |
| | | Steele MacKaye's double stage in the Madison Square Theatre, New York | 236 | |
| | | Steele MacKaye's Paul Kauvar, or Anarchy | 238 | |
| | | Sara Bernhardt as Adrienne Lecouvreur | 240 | |
| | | Ada Rehan and John Drew in the comedy The Railroad of Love | 242 | |
| | | Augustin Daly's production of The Merchant of Venice | 243 | |
| | | The duel scene in The Count of Monte Cristo with James O'Neill | 245 | |
| | | Design for an Edward Harrigan production, Baxter Street, New York | 248 | |
| | | Eleanora Duse as Camille | 264 | |
| | | William Gillette in a tense scene from his play Secret Service | 269 | |
| | Backstage scene in David Belasco's production of Zaza with Mrs. Leslie Carter, 1899 | 272 | |
| | | Ben Hur, scene on the galley, 1900 | 275 | |
| | | Victor Herbert's operetta Babes in Toyland, 1903 | 290 | |
| | | Edward Sheldon's Salvation Nell with Mrs. Fiske, 1908 | 300 | |
| | The New Theatre production of Antony and Cleopatra, 1909: Julia Marlowe as Cleopatra | 304 | |
| | | Max Reinhardt's Sumurun, 1912 | 312 | |
| | Harley Granville-Barker's production of Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, 1915 | 318 | |
| | | Lionel Barrymore as Milt Shanks in Augustus Thomas's The Copperhead, 1918 | 325 | |
| | The slave auction scene in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, Provincetown Players production, 1920 | 335 | |
| | | Louis Wolheim in the title role of Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, 1922 | 339 | |
| | | Rudolf Friml's musical comedy Rose Marie, 1924 | 343 | |
| | John Barrymore as Hamlet, Sidney Mather as Laertes, Arthur Hopkins produc- tion, 1922 | 347 | |
| | The Moscow Art Theatre production of Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch, the last act | 351 | |
| | The last scene of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine, New York Theatre Guild production, 1923 | 352 | |