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• Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres From the Beginnings to the Restoration (Boston et al: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by Joseph Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Elizabethan Stage (4 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923), by E. K. Chambers
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume IV: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Palace and Park, its Natural History and its Portrait Gallery, Together With a Description of the Pompeian Court, in the Undermentioned Guides: 1. Palalace and Park; 2. Portrait Gallery; 3. Ethnology and Natural History; 4. Extinct Animals; 5. Pompeian Court (5 guides in 1 volume; London: Crystal Palace Library, and Bradbury and Evans, 1854), by Samuel Phillips, R. G. Latham, Edward Forbes, Richard Owen, and George Scharf, illust. by Philip H. Delamotte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bulletin des Musées de France (in French) (partial serial archives)

• The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Il Teatro Greco di Siracusa (in Italian; Milan and Rome: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1923), by G. E. Rizzo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Il Teatro Greco di Siracusa (in Italian; Milan and Rome: Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1923), by G. E. Rizzo
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by Kate Davy (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Public Dance Halls of Chicago, by Louise de Koven Bowen (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A Treatise on Theatres (London: Printed for the author, 1790), by George Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Theatre (Corinth series v2; Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1952), by Richard Stillwell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Adrian Frazier (HTML at UC Press)

• Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miracle in the Evening: An Autobiography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1960), by Norman Bel Geddes, ed. by William Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945-65 (London: University of London Press, c2020), by Sam Manning (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Motion Picture Chums' New Idea: or, The First Educational Photo Playhouse (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park: or, The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986 (c2013), by R. M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Show Boat (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Museum Buildings (Volume 1: A Planning Study; only volume published; Washington: American Association of Museums, 1950), by Laurence Vail Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1987-1988 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1986-1987 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1985-1986 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1985), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Joanna Ekman, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1983-1984 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1983-1984 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Amy Horbar, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Polly Cone, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1981-1982 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Emily Walter, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1980-1981 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Joanna Ekman, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1979-1980 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Emily Walter, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Cairn (1976-) (full serial archives)

• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

• The Corning Flood: Museum Under Water (Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1977), ed. by John H. Martin and Charleen K. Edwards (PDF files with commentary at cmog.org)

• Radicalizing Care: Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v26; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2021), ed. by Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold, and Vera Hofmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

• Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977-2008 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), by James R. Houghton, Katharine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picón, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter A. Liedtke, Colta Feller Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm R. Daniel, Harold Koda, and John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977-2008 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), by James R. Houghton, Katharine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picón, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter A. Liedtke, Colta Feller Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm R. Daniel, Harold Koda, and John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977-2008 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), by James R. Houghton, Katharine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picón, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter A. Liedtke, Colta Feller Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm R. Daniel, Harold Koda, and John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Eighteenth Century in Italy (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 3; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Seventeenth Century in Italy (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 2; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• The Italian Renaissance (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1965), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Lighting of a Great Museum (Hackensack, NJ: American Lighting Corp., c1960), by I. D. Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mouseion (French museum journal) (partial serial archives)

• Art Museums in America, by George Fisk Comfort (page images at MOA)

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