James Purdy, James Roose-Evans, George Bernard Shaw, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Jule Styne, Laurette Taylor, Eli Wallach, Jerome Weidman, Arnold Wesker, Tennessee Williams, Sandy Wilson, Audrey Wood, and many others. The organizational archives of B. J. Simmons & Company, Theatre Guild, and the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. An extensive library of early modern plays and theatrical books including three Shakespeare First Folios and one of only three known copies of the 1594 quarto of the True Tragedie of Richard the Third published by an anonymous writer. A historic collection of 19th and 20th century portrait photography of actors and dancers, and production photography holdings including Joseph Abeles and Leo Friedman, Fred Fehl, and Bob Golby. Design archives of Norman Bel Geddes, Gordon Conway, Eldon Elder, and Boris Aronson. David Garrick's diary from his 1751 trip to Paris, which formerly belonged to Harry Houdini. John Wilkes Booth's personal production promptbook for Richard III. Original costumes from the Ballets Russes including pieces from Narcisse and The Rite of Spring. Design holdings include two of Pablo Picasso's costume designs and a set design from The Three-Cornered Hat. The original manuscripts for George Aiken's 1852 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the archive of its producing company, George C. Howard. A 1730 manuscript of George Frideric Handel's Coronation Anthems made by his principal copyist. Film and television The papers of Robert De Niro, David O. Selznick, Nicholas Ray, Edward Carrick, Alfred Junge, Jay Presson Allen, Lewis Allen, Ernest Lehman, King Vidor, Tobe Hooper, and Gloria Swanson. Selected costumes, script drafts, storyboards , and audition media from Gone with the Wind. These are part of the David O. Selznick Collection Unused props designed by Salvador Dalí to have been used in the dream sequence in the 1945 film Spellbound The sunglasses worn by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard Scripts, drafts, notes, props, costumes, digital video and research material from the American television series Mad Men Art Two paintings by Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) and Still Life (with Parrot and Fruit) A complete set of Pablo Picasso's 1930–1937 Vollard Suite A she-wolf statue carved in stone and coated with gold leaf (now worn off) by Eric Gill, creator of Gill Sans typeface Busts of various writers (on display in the lobby and reading room) Large holdings in art by writers and portraits of literary