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We opened in one; recollections of vaudeville, 1929-30, by Rosanna "Ann Williams" Wheaton. Edited by James W. Wheaton.

Book/Text

Hingham, Mass. [J. W. Wheaton] 1970.

1970

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Wheaton, R.) 72-1449Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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Vaudeville U. S.A., by John E. DiMeglio.

Book/Text

Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green University Popular Press [1973]

1973

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWFH 74-930Item locationOffsite
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The AGVA news [microform].

Microform

New York.

1950-1966

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall number*ZAN-*T13 [Microfilm] Library has: v. 1-16, no. 2; Aug. 1950-summer 1966 (incomplete). v. 12-16 (1962-1966)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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FormatMicroformCall number*ZAN-*T13 [Microfilm] Library has: v. 1-16, no. 2; Aug. 1950-summer 1966 (incomplete). v. 9-11 (Jan. 1959-Dec. 1961)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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FormatMicroformCall number*ZAN-*T13 [Microfilm] Library has: v. 1-16, no. 2; Aug. 1950-summer 1966 (incomplete). v. 1-8 (Aug. 1950-Dec. 1958) (inc.)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Once upon a stage : the merry world of vaudeville / by Charles and Louise Samuels.

Book/Text

New York : Dodd, Mead, [1974]

1974

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWFH 75-508Item locationOffsite

B. F. Keith's theatre news.

Book/Text

Washington.

5 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED (Washington) [RBS] 97-21 v. 30, no. 2-34 (Sept. 11 1927-Apr. 3 1928)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED (Washington) [RBS] 97-21 v. 25, no. 1-52 (Sept. 4 1922-Sept. 2 1923)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED (Washington) [RBS] 97-21 v. 23, no. 1-52 (Aug. 30 1920-Aug. 22 1921)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Ziegfeld.

Book/Text

London, New York, W. H. Allen, 1973 [c1972]

1973-1972

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MGYB (Ziegfeld) 75-1888Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Show biz, from vaude to video, by Abel Green and Joe Laurie, Jr [microform].

Microform

Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday & Co. [1953, c1951]

1953-1951

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall number*XMT-167 [Microfiche]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The vaudevillians / Bill Smith.

Book/Text

New York : Macmillan, c1976.

1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGY 76-2324Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Madison's budget.

Microform

New York.

0 resources

Way down south/ by Clarence Muse and David Arlen; wood cuts by Blanding Sloan. 1st ed.

Book/Text

Hollywood, Calif.: D. G. Fischer, 1932.

1932

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare F 81-11Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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The vaudevillians : a dictionary of vaudeville performers / Anthony Slide.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Arlington House, c1981.

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWER 82-1505Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932 / by Shirley Staples.

Book/Text

Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1984.

1984

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWFH 84-1501Item locationOffsite

Selected vaudeville criticism / edited by Anthony Slide.

Book/Text

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988.

1988

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWFH 88-2908Item locationOffsite

In the spotlight : personal experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American stage.

Book/Text

East Aurora : The Roycrofters, [1917]

1917-1917

2 items

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED 89-25098 (Hubbard, E.)Item locationOffsite
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED (Hubbard, E.) 89-25098Item locationOffsite

The voice of the city : vaudeville and popular culture in New York / Robert W. Snyder.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

1989

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED (New York) 89-28276Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Ona Munson papers, 1906-1949.

Archival Mix

1906-1949

13 items

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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1990-012 Box 13Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1990-012 Box 12Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1990-012 Box 11Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Edward V. and Alfred T. Darling papers, 1899-1952.

Archival Mix

1899-1952

1 item

Collection information

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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1986-005Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Singing the master : the emergence of African American culture in the plantation south / Roger D. Abrahams.

Book/Text

New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 92-514Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Charley White's new book of black wit and darky conversations, being the second series of the kind ever published and containing a large collection of laughable anecdotes, jokes, stories, witticisms, plantation and dandy darkey converstions, &c., &c., as given by this great comedian at White's opera house, New York, compiled and arranged by Charles White and published by his authority.

Book/Text

New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1856]

1856

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 791.1-W (White, C. Charley White's new book of black wit) Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Charley White's Ethiopian joke book, being a perfect casket of fun! ... Containing a full exposé of all the most laughable jokes, stories,witticisms, &c., &c., as told by this great Ethiopian comedian at White'sopera house, New York.

Book/Text

New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1855]

1855

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 791.1-W (White, C. Charley White's Ethiopian joke book)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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100 years of the Negro in show business!

Book/Text

New York, Burdge [c1954]

1954

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 792-F (Fletcher, T. 100 years of the Negro in show business)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 792-F (Fletcher, T. 100 years of the Negro in show business)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWES (Fletcher, T.) (Fletcher, T. 100 years of the Negro in show business)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Show biz, from vaude to video, by Abel Green & Joe Laurie, Jr.

Book/Text

New York, Holt [1951]

1951

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 792-G (Green, A. Show biz)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED (Green, A. Show biz)Item locationOffsite

They all sang : from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée / as told to Abbott J. Liebling by Edward B. Marks.

Book/Text

New York : The Viking Press, 1934.

1934

4 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 784-M (Marks, E. They all sang)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFHB (U.S.) (Marks, E. B. They all sang) copy 2Item locationOffsite

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFHB (U.S.) (Marks, E. B. They all sang)Item locationOffsite

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Vaudeville: from the honky-tonks to the palace.

Book/Text

New York, Holt [1953]

1953

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 792-L (Laurie, J. Vaudeville)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWFH (Laurie, J. Vaudeville)Item locationOffsite

A survey of dances and dancers in Vaudeville [microform] / by Craig rownell Bowie.

Microform

[1984].

1985-1984

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMicroformCall number*XMD-363Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)

Archival Mix

1904-1982

40 items

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 259Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 259Item locationOffsite

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William N. and Isabele T. Spiller papers, 1906-1958.

Archival Mix

1906-1958

1 item

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 62Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Bert Williams jokebooks, n.d.

Archival Mix

1899-1999

1 item

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 190 Box 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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The encyclopedia of vaudeville / Anthony Slide.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994

1994

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberMWFH 94-5626Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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Bert Bertram scrapbooks, 1915-1984.

Archival Mix

1915-1984

3 items

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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1994-022Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1994-022Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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FormatArchival MixCall number*T-Mss 1994-022Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Exhibition ballroom dancing 1900-24 2 [graphic] / photograph by Apeda.

Picture

New York, [1914?]

1914

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall number*MGZE (Exhibition ballroom dancing 1900-24, no. 2)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Sonia Baraban and C. C. Grohs [graphic] / photograph by Apeda.

Picture

New York, [1914?].

1914

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall number*MGZE (Exhibition ballroom dancing 1900-24, no. 1)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Denishawn 453 [graphic] / photograph by Strauss-Peyton.

Picture

Kansas City, Mo., 1916-17.

1916-1917

1 resource

Denishawn 456 [graphic] / photograph by Strauss-Peyton.

Picture

Kansas City, Mo., 1916-17.

1916-1917

1 resource