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We opened in one; recollections of vaudeville, 1929-30, by Rosanna "Ann Williams" Wheaton. Edited by James W. Wheaton.
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- Hingham, Mass. [J. W. Wheaton] 1970.
- 1970
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWES (Wheaton, R.) 72-1449 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Vaudeville U. S.A., by John E. DiMeglio.
- Text
- Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green University Popular Press [1973]
- 1973
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWFH 74-930 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre The AGVA news [microform].
- Text
- New York.
- 1950-1966
- 3 items
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available *ZAN-*T13 [Microfilm] Library has: v. 1-16, no. 2; Aug. 1950-summer 1966 (incomplete). v. 1-8 (Aug. 1950-Dec. 1958) (inc.) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Use in library Available *ZAN-*T13 [Microfilm] Library has: v. 1-16, no. 2; Aug. 1950-summer 1966 (incomplete). v. 12-16 (1962-1966) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Use in library Available *ZAN-*T13 [Microfilm] Library has: v. 1-16, no. 2; Aug. 1950-summer 1966 (incomplete). v. 9-11 (Jan. 1959-Dec. 1961) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Once upon a stage : the merry world of vaudeville / by Charles and Louise Samuels.
- Text
- New York : Dodd, Mead, [1974]
- 1974
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWFH 75-508 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre B. F. Keith's theatre news.
- Text
- Washington.
- 5 items
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Supervised use Available MWED (Washington) [RBS] 97-21 v. 21, no. 2- v. 22, no. 19 (Aug. 19, 1918-Dec. 29, 1919) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Supervised use Available MWED (Washington) [RBS] 97-21 v. 22, no. 2-53 (Sept. 1, 1919-Aug. 23, 1920) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Supervised use Available MWED (Washington) [RBS] 97-21 v. 23, no. 1-52 (Aug. 30 1920-Aug. 22 1921) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Show biz, from vaude to video, by Abel Green and Joe Laurie, Jr [microform].
- Text
- Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday & Co. [1953, c1951]
- 1953-1951
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available *XMT-167 [Microfiche] Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre The vaudevillians / Bill Smith.
- Text
- New York : Macmillan, c1976.
- 1976
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request *MGY 76-2324 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Madison's budget.
- Text
- New York.
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Missing *ZAN-5148 Schwarzman Building M1 - Microforms Room 315 Way down south/ by Clarence Muse and David Arlen; wood cuts by Blanding Sloan. 1st ed.
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- Hollywood, Calif.: D. G. Fischer, 1932.
- 1932
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request
Appointment RequiredSc Rare F 81-11 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives The vaudevillians : a dictionary of vaudeville performers / Anthony Slide.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Arlington House, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWER 82-1505 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932 / by Shirley Staples.
- Text
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1984.
- 1984
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWFH 84-1501 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Selected vaudeville criticism / edited by Anthony Slide.
- Text
- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWFH 88-2908 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre The voice of the city : vaudeville and popular culture in New York / Robert W. Snyder.
- Text
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available MWED (New York) 89-28276 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Ona Munson papers, 1906-1949.
- Moving image
- 1906-1949
- 13 items
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1990-012 Box 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1990-012 Box 4 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1990-012 Box 5 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Edward V. and Alfred T. Darling papers, 1899-1952.
- Mixed material
- 1899-1952
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1986-005 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Hatch-Billops collection [sound recording] : [taped interviews of musicians].
- Audio
- 1971-1974.
- 1971-1974
Singing the master : the emergence of African American culture in the plantation south / Roger D. Abrahams.
- Text
- New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 item
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Table of contentsItem details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request Sc D 92-514 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference 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.
- Text
- New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1856]
- 1856
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request
Appointment RequiredSc Rare 791.1-W (White, C. Charley White's new book of black wit) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives 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.
- Text
- New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1855]
- 1855
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request
Appointment RequiredSc Rare 791.1-W (White, C. Charley White's Ethiopian joke book) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives 100 years of the Negro in show business!
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- New York, Burdge [c1954]
- 1954
- 3 items
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWES (Fletcher, T.) (Fletcher, T. 100 years of the Negro in show business) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Use in library Request Sc 792-F (Fletcher, T. 100 years of the Negro in show business) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Use in library Request Sc 792-F (Fletcher, T. 100 years of the Negro in show business) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference They all sang : from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée / as told to Abbott J. Liebling by Edward B. Marks.
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- New York : The Viking Press, 1934.
- 1934
- 4 items
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Request in advance Request *MFHB (U.S.) (Marks, E. B. They all sang) Offsite Supervised use Request *MFHB (U.S.) (Marks, E. B. They all sang) Offsite Request in advance Request *MFHB (U.S.) (Marks, E. B. They all sang) copy 2 Offsite The night the camel sang : a true romance of vaudeville : with a photo sketch of the author and selected poems from "My heart has wings" / by Edna White Chandler.
- Text
- St. Johnsbury, Vt. : New Amberola Phonograph Co., c1990.
- 1990
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Request in advance Request JND 93-27 Offsite A survey of dances and dancers in Vaudeville [microform] / by Craig rownell Bowie.
- Text
- [1984].
- 1985-1984
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available *XMD-363 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk)
- Mixed material
- 1904-1982
- 40 items
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available SC MG 259 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Use in library Available SC MG 259 Box 30 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Use in library Available SC MG 259 Box 31 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives William N. and Isabele T. Spiller papers, 1906-1958.
- Mixed material
- 1906-1958
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available Sc MG 62 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Bert Williams jokebooks, n.d.
- Mixed material
- 1899-1999
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available Sc MG 190 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives The encyclopedia of vaudeville / Anthony Slide.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994
- 1994
- 1 item
Item details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Request MWFH 94-5626 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference Bert Bertram scrapbooks, 1915-1984.
- Mixed material
- 1915-1984
- 3 items
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NYPL Digital CollectionsItem details Access Status Call Number Location Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1994-022 Box 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1994-022 Box 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Supervised use Available *T-Mss 1994-022 Box 3 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Exhibition ballroom dancing 1900-24 2 [graphic] / photograph by Apeda.
- Still image
- New York, [1914?]
- 1914
- 1 item
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NYPL Digital CollectionsItem details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available *MGZE (Exhibition ballroom dancing 1900-24, no. 2) Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Sonia Baraban and C. C. Grohs [graphic] / photograph by Apeda.
- Still image
- New York, [1914?].
- 1914
- 1 item
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NYPL Digital CollectionsItem details Access Status Call Number Location Use in library Available *MGZE (Exhibition ballroom dancing 1900-24, no. 1) Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Frank Girard and Charles Worley [graphic] / photograph, no credit given.
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NYPL Digital CollectionsJosephine of Burnoff and Josephine [graphic] / photograph by Todd Studios.
- Still image
- Saint Louis.
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NYPL Digital CollectionsVaudeville and burlesque dancers 4 [graphic] / photograph by Celebrity.
- Still image
- Chicago.
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 443 [graphic] / photograph by Bachrach.
- Still image
- c1917.
- 1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 444 [graphic] / photograph by Bachrach.
- Still image
- c1917.
- 1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 445 [graphic] / photograph by Bachrach.
- Still image
- c1917.
- 1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 446 [graphic] / photograph by Bachrach.
- Still image
- c1917.
- 1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 447 [graphic] / photograph by Bachrach.
- Still image
- c1917.
- 1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 448 [graphic] / photograph by Bachrach.
- Still image
- c1917.
- 1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 453 [graphic] / photograph by Strauss-Peyton.
- Still image
- Kansas City, Mo., 1916-17.
- 1916-1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 454 [graphic] / photograph by Strauss-Peyton.
- Still image
- Kansas City, 1916-17.
- 1916-1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 455 [graphic] / photograph by Strauss-Peyton.
- Still image
- Kansas City, c1916.
- 1916
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 456 [graphic] / photograph by Strauss-Peyton.
- Still image
- Kansas City, Mo., 1916-17.
- 1916-1917
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NYPL Digital CollectionsDenishawn 457 [graphic] / photograph by News Flashlight.
- Still image
- 1916-17.
- 1916-1917
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