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Anna May Wong compositions and collected music

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2156
Overview:

Manuscript musical compositions by Chinese American actress Anna May Wong with printed and manuscript music by others.

Cabinet photographs of contortionist Belle Birbeck

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2084
Overview:

Photographs of contortionist Belle Birbeck.

Christy Obrecht family papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1711
Overview:

Professional and personal papers, correspondence, and photographs of the Christy Obrecht family.

Claire Holloway papers documenting her vaudeville career

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2010
Overview:

Papers documenting the career of vaudeville dancer Claire Holloway.

Collection of materials related to theatrical acts at the Opera House in El Paso, Illinois

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2317
Overview:

Promotional materials, contracts, and letters about theatrical acts in El Paso, Illinois.

Collection of pictorial letterheads for vaudeville acts and performers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1864
Overview:

A collection of pictorial letterheads for various vaudeville acts and performers.

Dolly Dumplin' vaudeville collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1907
Overview:

Photographs, contracts, and other papers relating to vaudeville performer, Dolly Dumplin'.

Hal Merritt collection on vaudeville

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2004MT-62
Summary:

Includes: hand-decorated envelopes addressed to Miss Margaret Jennings of Buffalo, New York, with scenes from Merritt's travels and acts, some including the Black-face vaudeville team The Nichols Sisters; 9 photographs; and 6 letters.

Harlan Mankin papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1847
Overview:

Papers of "The Human Frog", Harlan Sanford Mankin (1888-1969), a vaudeville contortionist.

Harry and Daisy DeGrace vaudeville act collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2264
Overview:

Materials relating to the vaudeville careers of the married performing duo Harry and Daisy DeGrace.

John Taylor Company Photographers photographs of William Ferry's (Frogman Ferry) contortionist performances

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2267
Overview:

Three photographs depicting the contortion performances of William (Frogman) Ferry.

Leonard Finger collection of Broadway and vaudeville theater

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2011MT-27
Summary: Collection is predominantly photographs of actors and performances, found in boxes 3-4. Boxes 1-2 include a photogravure of Maria Ouspenskaya by Ben Magid Rabinovitch, 1924; "front of house cards"; silk souvenir playbills; two souvenir programs (for testimonial to C. W. (Charles Walter) Couldock, 1895, and Maude Adams in Peter Pan, 1907); manuscript part for Sergeant Annibal Scalade in Child of the Regiment; and file of notes, correspondence, and compositions probably created by Curtis...

Morris Pearlstein records of the Modern Theatre (Brockton (Mass.))

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2007MT-49
Summary:

Photographs of performers, the theatre, and others, printed programs, posters, and clippings, receipts and contracts, a bifolium scrapbook for Gangler's Circus & Side Show, a bound scrapbook of clippings (1933-1935), a manuscript memoir, and other records documenting the Modern Theatre, its vaudeville programming, and its creator, Morris (Max) Pearlstein.

Nan and Myles Bell photograph collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2015
Overview:

Vaudeville photographs of Nan and Myles Bell, Christine Jorgensen, and Anna May Wong.

Papers documenting the career of Alphonse Berg, The Great Drapo

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2218
Overview:

Photographs and ephemera documenting the vaudeville career of Alphonse Berg, known professionally as The Great Drapo.

Photographs of vaudeville performer Bert Williams

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2203
Overview:

Photographs of African American vaudeville comedian, actor, and singer, Bert Williams.

Photographs of vaudeville performers Dorothea Summers and "The Sherwoods"

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2158
Overview:

Photographs of vaudeville performers Dorothea Summers and "The Sherwoods".

Photographs, postcards, and ephemera of The Four Fantinos

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2212
Overview:

Photographs and ephemera documenting the American aerialist troupe, The Four Fantinos.

Soichi Sunami photographs of dancer Miriam Marmein

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2283
Overview:

Three photographs of vaudeville dancer Miriam Marmein in costume for various performances, photographed by Soichi Sunami.

Tenny & Allen vaudeville act collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2259
Overview:

Materials relating to the Vaudeville careers of the married performing duo Art Tenny and Babe Allen, and their daughter, Dolores Tenny.

Wilton Sisters papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-243
Summary:

Scrapbooks circa 1913-1919; programs, 1919-1924; a typescript tour schedule, 1925-1926; clippings, 1919-1959; and photographs of the Wilton sisters and of Rose Wilton's husband, vaudeville performer John A. Murphy, in blackface minstrel costume.

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