The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment
Span: 1870-1920
English, Yiddish
web presentation
"American Variety Stageā 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.
Unpublished scripts for skits, monologues, Playscripts, Posters, Paper-print films,
Early sound recordings, Photographs
American Variety Stage
Material related to Vaudeville in America.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Vaudeville
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Multiple Divisions, Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
IHAS
120821
loc.natlib.scdb.200033715