The collection contains approximately 110 black and white photographs (and one negative), ranging in size from 3x5 to 8x10 inches; it encompasses a miscellany that includes images of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) offices, AEA meetings, actors and actresses, and theaters. Other than a 1919 production photograph of Brandon Tynan performing in “Equity” (a play created as a benefit during the organization’s first strike), very little early AEA history is represented. Most of the images of theaters were evidently shot to document bad working conditions, so many of them show stage-door entrances littered with garbage and interiors with crumbling walls and defective plumbing, rather than glamorous facades. Notable images include a picket line by the Oriental Actors Guild in 1968, and Equity members, circa the early 1960s, gathered at the AEA New York City office’s “Equity Lounge” to look for work and avail themselves of other member services. Only a few of the individual actors and actresses identified (in portraits or in production photographs) are prominent. They include: Ethel Barrymore; Ralph Bellamy; Jeanette Conner; John Cornell; William H. Crane; Butho Davenport; Paul Dullzell; Philip Loeb; Alan Howland; Harrison Hoy; Colin Keith; George Pierce; Elaine Klaw Roesen; Blythe Sherwood; Marguerite Sylva; and Cyril Vane.