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1. .5 linear feet (1 box)

Summary

1. Programs for vaudeville openings from January through December 1905. Programs are primarily for the presentations by the Orpheum and B. F. Keith circuits at venues including the Alhambra, Broadway, Circle, Colonial, Dewey Music Hall, Hammerstein's Paradise Roof Garden, Hammerstein's Victoria, Hurtig & Seamon's Harlem Music Hall, Hyde & Behman's, Imperial, Keith-Albee’s New York Hippodrome, Metropolis, Morrison's, New York Roof and Wistaria Grove, New Union Square, Orpheum, Pastor's, Palace, Palace Garden, Proctor's 23rd Street, Proctor's 58th Street, Proctor's 5th Avenue, Star, Teller's Broadway, West End, and Yorkville Theatres in New York City. Some other cities, including Boston, Carthage (N.Y.), Cleveland, Hoboken (N.J.), Irvington-on-Hudson (N.Y.), Mount Vernon (N.Y.), Newark (N.J.), Perth Amboy (N.J.), PIttsburgh, Sandy Hook (N.J.), and Tarrytown (N.Y.), are also represented.
2. Notable performers include Annie Abbott, Pearl Andrews, Katie Barry, Louise Beaudet, Nella Bergen, Grace Cameron, Carmencita, Emma Carus, Charlie Case, Anna Chance, Albert Chevalier, Maggie Cline, Josephine Cohan, Cole and Johnson, Will M. Cressy, Henrietta Crosman, George W. Day, Henry Dixey, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, Arthur Dunn, Eddie Foy, John D. Gilbert, Harry Gilfoil, Charles Grapewin, Louise Gunning, Rosario Guerrero, Charles Guyer, Edward Harrigan, Edith Helena, Adelaide Herrmann, Leon Herrmann, Robert Hilliard, Ernest Hogan, May Johnson, Herbert Kelcey, Harry Kellar, John T. Kelly, Anna Laughlin, Henry Lee, Eddie Leonard, Bert Leslie, Frank Lincoln, Cecelia Loftus, Henry Miller, Jessie Millward, Geroge W. Monroe, Victor Moore, Tom Nawn, Fred Niblo, Fred Nowlin, Nellie O'Neil, A. M. Palmer, Papinta, John W. Ransone, Fannie Rice, Adele Ritchie, R. A. Roberts, Will Rogers, Pat Rooney, Lillian Russell, Josie Sadler, Effie Shannon, Lillian Shaw, Edwin Stevens, Paul Valadon, Billy Van, Clarice Vance, Aida Overton Walker, Charles Warner, Frank Whitman, Marshall Wilder, Gus Williams, and Julius and Agnes Zancig. Also of note is the inclusion of motion picture presentations in many programs, including works by American Vitagraph and American Biograph, and using the Kinetograph and Tellerscope.

Subject

1. Abbott, Annie, 1860-1915
2. Andrews, Pearl
3. Barry, Katie
4. Beaudet, Louise
5. Bergen, Nella, 1873-1919
6. Cameron, Grace
7. Carmencita
8. Carus, Emma, 1878-1927
9. Chance, Anna, 1879-1943
10. Chevalier, Albert, 1861-1923
11. Cline, Maggie, 1857-1934
12. Cohan, Josephine, 1876-1916
13. Cole, Bob, 1868-1911
14. Cressy, Will M. (Will Martin), 1863-1930
15. Crosman, Henrietta, 1861-1944
16. Day, George W
17. Dixey, Henry E., 1859-1943
18. Drew, Sidney, Mrs., 1890-1925
19. Drew, Sidney, 1864-1919
20. Dunn, Arthur
21. Case, Charley, 1858-1916
22. Foy, Eddie, 1856-1928
23. Gilbert, John D
24. Gilfoil, Harry
25. Guerrero, Rosario
26. Gunning, Louise
27. Grapewin, Charles, 1869-1956
28. Guyer, Charles
29. Harrigan, Edward, 1844-1911
30. Helena, Edith, 1876-1956
31. Herrmann, Adelaide, 1853-1932
32. Hilliard, Robert Cochran, 1857-1927
33. Herrmann, Leon, 1867-1909
34. Hogan, Ernest, 1865-1909
35. Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954
36. Johnson, May
37. Kelcey, Herbert, 1856-1917
38. Kellar, Harry, 1849-1922
39. Kelly, John T., 1855-1922
40. Laughlin, Anna, 1885-1937
41. Lee, Henry, 1857-1910
42. Leonard, Eddie, 1875-1941
43. Leslie, Bert
44. Lincoln, Frank
45. Loftus, Cecilia, 1876-1943
46. Miller, Henry, 1860-1926
47. Millward, Jessie, 1861-1932
48. Monroe, George W., approximately 1857-1932
49. Moore, Victor, 1876-1962
50. Nawn, Tom, 1863-1949
51. Niblo, Fred, 1874-1948
52. Ransone, John W., 1860-1929
53. Nowlin, Dave
54. O’Neil, Nellie
55. Palmer, Albert Marshman, 1838-1905
56. Papinta, 1867-1907
57. Proctor, F. F. (Frederick Freeman), 1851-1929
58. Rice, Fanny, 1859-1936
59. Ritchie, Adele, 1874-1930
60. Roberts, R. A
61. Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
62. Rooney, Pat, 1880-1962
63. Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922
64. Sadler, Josie, -1927
65. Shannon, Effie, 1867-1954
66. Shaw, Lillian
67. Stevens, Edwin, 1860-1923
68. Valadon, Paul, 1869-1913
69. Van, Billy B
70. Vance, Clarice
71. Walker, Aida Overton, 1880-1914
72. Warner, Charles, 1846-1909
73. Whitman, Frank
74. Williams, Gus, 1847-1915
75. Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1859-1915
76. Zancig, Agnes
77. Zancig, Julius
78. Alhambra Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
79. B. F. Keith (Firm)
80. B. F. Keith's Theatre (Organization : Cleveland, Ohio)
81. B. F. Keith's Theatre (Organization : Boston, Mass.)
82. B. F. Keith's Colonial Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
83. B. F. Keith's Palace Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
84. Keith-Albee’s New York Hippodrome
85. Metropolitan Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
86. American Vitagraph Company
87. Biograph Company
88. Orpheum Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
89. Howard Athenaeum
90. Magicians
91. Vaudeville -- New York (State) -- New York
92. Vaudeville -- United States
93. Theatrical productions -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Programs.

Call number

1. MWEZ+ n.c. 11909

Title

1. Vaudeville (U.S.) programs, 1905.

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1. MWEZ+ n.c. 11909