Touring West: 19th-century Performing Artists on the Overland Trails
Resource Type:
Online Exhibition
This online exhibition spotlights the professional performances by dancers, actors, slack- and tightrope walkers, jugglers, acrobats, singers, instrumental artists, authors, political activists, and orators who toured the United States from the time of the Louisiana Purchase (1803) through the 19th century.
URL:
http://www.nypl.org/west/
Libraries:
Library for the Performing Arts