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The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment [web presentation]
- Title
- The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment [web presentation]
- Date Created
- Span: 1870-1920
- Language
- English, Yiddish
- Form
- web presentation
- Abstract
- "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
- Unpublished scripts for skits, monologues, Playscripts, Posters, Paper-print films,
Early sound recordings, Photographs - Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subject
- Vaudeville
- Repository
- Multiple Divisions, Library of Congress
- Online Collection
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
Last Updated: 08-21-2012