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| Frontispiece (Colored Plate) | 1 |
| Stage of Modern Theatre | 18 |
| Lotta | 22 |
| Interior of Modern Theatre | 36 |
| Decorating a Scene Painter | 47 |
| The "Masher" | 56 |
| The Big Hat | 61 |
| George and Harry | 63 |
| Louise Montague | 64 |
| Maud Branscombe | 65 |
| Selina Dolaro | 68 |
| John McCullough | 70 |
| Belle Howitt | 73 |
| John A. Stevens | 76 |
| Lillie West | 79 |
| Pauline Markham (Colored Plate) | 80 |
| Adah Isaac Menken | 83 |
| Millie La Fonte | 85 |
| Ballet Girl's Dressing-Room | 87 |
| Edwin Booth | 89 |
| McKee Rankin | 91 |
| The Three Villas | 93 |
| Sarah Bernhardt | 96 |
| The Late Adelaide Neilson | 99 |
| Dressing an Actress' Hair | 102 |
| Marie Roze | 105 |
| In the Green-Room | 106 |
| A Green-Room Tableau | 107 |
| Getting their "Lines" | 109 |
| Milton Nobles | 110 |
| Improving Spare Moments | 112 |
| An Actress' Useful Husband | 113 |
| Making Love in the Side Scenes | 115 |
| M'lle Geraldine and Little Gerry | 117 |
| Sobering a Comedian | 120 |
| McCullough as Virginius | 121 |
| Kate Claxton | 123 |
| The Late Venie Clancie | 126 |
| Catherine Lewis | 128 |
| Chanfrau | 131 |
| Fanny Davenport | 134 |
| Dion Boucicault | 135 |
| Mrs. Boucicault | 136 |
| Maud Granger | 139 |
| Portia and Shylock | 143 |
| Lizzie McCall | 145 |
| Pin up my Skirts | 148 |
| Annie Pixley as M'liss | 150 |
| The Call Boy's Revenge | 151 |
| Thos. W. Keene | 154 |
| Emma Thursby | 156 |
| Lillian Russell | 158 |
| Joe Jefferson | 159 |
| Roland Reed | 160 |
| Lizzie Webster (Colored Plate) | 160 |
| Lawrence Barrett | 161 |
| J. K. Emmett | 164 |
| John T. Raymond | 166 |
| Katherine Rogers | 168 |
| Josephine D'Orme | 170 |
| Ferdinand and Miranda | 173 |
| Lester Wallack | 175 |
| Clara Morris | 177 |
| Helen Dingeon | 178 |
| Scott-Siddons | 181 |
| John Parselle | 184 |
| Sol Smith Russell | 187 |
| Rose Coghlan | 189 |
| The Raft Scene | 192 |
| Minnie Hauk | 197 |
| Helping the Scene Painter | 201 |
| The Old Woman of the Company | 204 |
| The Æsthetic Drama | 205 |
| Kitty Blanchard | 209 |
| Mrs. Langtry | 213 |
| Marie Prescott as Parthenia | 217 |
| Mme. Fanny Janauschek | 222 |
| Rose Eytinge | 226 |
| Agnes Booth | 230 |
| "Now then, Ladies and Gentlemen, all Together" | 234 |
| Training Ballet Dancers | 235 |
| National Dances | 237 |
| Marion Elmore (Colored Plate) | 240 |
| Drilling for the Chorus | 245 |
| The "Sucker" | 248 |
| Donna Julia's Eyes | 253 |
| Oberon and Titania | 255 |
| Measuring for the Costume | 257 |
| M. B. Curtis | 260 |
| A Premiere before the Audience | 262 |
| A Bowery "Masher" | 276 |
| Lady Macbeth | 278 |
| Working a Greeny at a Matinee | 280 |
| From one of the Mashed | 282 |
| Adelina Patti's "Mash" | 287 |
| J. H. Haverly | 288 |
| A Monkey Spoiling a Mash | 292 |
| Ambleleg | 295 |
| Serving a Writ on Fanny Davenport | 304 |
| Ernesti Rossi | 307 |
| Slippers for Free Puffs | 311 |
| Miss Connolly (Colored Plate) | 320 |
| Little Corinne | 322 |
| Taglioni Congratulating Emma Livry | 326 |
| Lotta | 332 |
| Maggie Mitchell | 333 |
| Emma Abbott | 334 |
| Called before the Curtain | 338 |
| Fay Templeton | 342 |
| Chinese Theatre | 348 |
| Chinese Property Room | 351 |
| Minnie Maddern | 352 |
| Crowning a Tenor | 356 |
| Patti | 359 |
| Gerster | 361 |
| George Christy | 370 |
| You are the Sort of Man I Like | 373 |
| Jim Crow | 378 |
| G. H. Adams | 382 |
| Fencing Scene in Black Crock | 390 |
| Mad. Theo | 392 |
| Gus Williams | 394 |
| She Tickled Him Under the Chin | 399 |
| M'lle Genevieve (Colored Plate) | 400 |
| Armado and Jaquenetta | 402 |
| Laura Don | 404 |
| Benedick and Beatrice | 405 |
| Materna | 406 |
| Thatcher, Primrose and West | 407 |
| A "Bowery" on a Lark | 408 |
| Concert Saloon Band | 410 |
| Female Band | 411 |
| Female Orchestra | 412 |
| James O'Neill | 413 |
| An Ideal Masher | 414 |
| Edwin Harrigan | 417 |
| Tony Hart | 418 |
| Herman's Sell | 432 |
| The Box Trick, Fig. 1 | 440 |
| The Box Trick, Fig. 2 | 441 |
| The Box Trick, Fig. 3 | 441 |
| The Box Trick, Fig. 4 | 442 |
| The Box Trick, Fig. 5 | 443 |
| On the Road | 465 |
| The McCall Tragedy | 472 |
| Blackmailing an Actress | 474 |
| Jealousy | 476 |
| Edward Kendall | 478 |
| Out in the Cold | 480 |
| John Wilkes Booth | 485 |
| Scene from Grand Duchess | 493 |
| John W. Norton | 496 |
| Mary Anderson (Colored Plate) | 496 |
| A Candidate in Regalia | 504 |
| Muck-a-Muck | 508 |
| The Circus World | 512 |
| Twenty-five Thousand Dollar Beauty | 517 |
| Adam Forepaugh | 520 |
| Beating the Circus | 523 |
| W. H. Donaldson | 525 |
| Catalina Georgio's Frightful Death | 526 |
| Bareback Riding | 537 |
| Trapeze | 539 |
| Mdme. Lasalle | 542 |
| Annie Livingstone (Colored Plate) | 545 |
| Circus Riders | 546 |
| Dan Rice | 550 |
| A Human Pyramid | 562 |
| Leaping | 565 |
| Bicycle Riding | 571 |
| Giant and Giantess | 579, 580 |
| Performing Elephants | 596 |
| Jumbo | 599 |
| Curtain | 608 |