A scale model of a theatrical set, featuring the word “Cabaret” hanging from the rafters, a mirrored backdrop flanked by red curtains, and a small figure of the character of the Emcee pointing a cane and raising his top hat

Set model for the Broadway production of Cabaret

Collage on multi-colored paper with photos and illustrations of people and buildings.

Romare Bearden’s Black Manhattan

Photograph by Robert Kato

Recording from Amelia Earhart’s International Broadcast in London, as picked up in New York by Silvertone
May 22, 1932
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Recording from Amelia Earhart’s International Broadcast in London, as picked up in New York by Silvertone

Aviator Amelia Earhart’s (1897–ca. 1937/39) transatlantic flight, begun May 20, 1932, marked the first crossing of the Atlantic by a solo female pilot and commemorated the fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s initial voyage. Conditions required Earhart to land in Ireland, rather than in France as planned, and she officially ended her flight on May 22 in London, where her address to the large and admiring crowd was broadcast internationally. Excerpts from that broadcast were recorded onto this five-inch souvenir disc, distributed with the first edition of Earhart’s The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and Women in Aviation (1932). The book was published by Brewer, Warren, & Putnam, the New York publishing house owned by her husband, George Palmer Putnam.

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