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Online Collection
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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment [web presentation]
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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment [web presentation] - Date Created
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Span: 1870-1920 - Language
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English, Yiddish - Form
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web presentation - Abstract
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"American Variety Stage” is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This online collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included here are English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, theater playbills and programs, early motion pictures, sound recordings and photographs and memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. - Contents Note
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Unpublished scripts for skits, monologues, Playscripts, Posters, Paper-print films,
Early sound recordings, Photographs - Copyright
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Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply. - Subject
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Vaudeville - Repository
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Multiple Divisions, Library of Congress - Online Collection
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
Last Updated: 08-21-2012