Curated by Jesse Aaron Cohen

This exhibition features publicity images of actors and performers in the 1910's and 1920's.

Wherever these performers graced the English, Yiddish, or German language stages throughout the United States, Eastern Europe, and Germany, these photographs followed...
These images were selected from Record Group 8 - The Esther-Rachel Kaminska Theater Museum Collection, at the YIVO Institute in New York.

A. Amelia. Liepaja, Latvia, 1917.

Anne Dolores. Portland, Oregon, 1924.

Rose Goldberg. Poland, 1914.

"Ms. Bernstein", first name, date, location unknown.

Hersh Balbirsky. Lodz, Poland, 1912.

Garte Bulman. Date, location unknown.

Belle Didjah in various roles. United States.

Hermann Heuser in various roles, including: Rasputin (top left) and Macbeth (top right). Germany, year unknown.

"Yiddishe Wunderkind" children dancers, the Badensteins, in costume. Lublin, Poland, 1918.

If you are unable to view the images, they can also be found at: Headshots

Supplementary Material:
[1] How to prepare for your headshot
[2] Yiddish Theater
[3] Organic Headshots
[4] 5,000+ Headshots
[5] "The Headshot"

About this series:
This is installation twenty of a monthly series of Email Exhibitions. A new exhibition opens on the last Friday of every month. Each exhibition contains low-resolution images with a text and some supplementary readings. Please feel free to forward these exhibitions to whomever you want, but please don't reproduce the images in print or on your website without asking me first. Thanks.

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Jesse