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Amateur Hour Collection [collection]
- Title
- Amateur Hour Collection [collection]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1934-1950s
- Bulk: 1934-1950s
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 9 ft.
- 20 boxes
- Abstract
- Included in the collection are over 7000 applications from contestants who appeared on the Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour radio program between 1934 and 1948. Applications from conventional performers such as musicians, dancers, singers, and impersonators are the most numerous, but also included are applications from novelty acts. Of particular interest are applications from various performers, now well known, including Teresa Brewer, Stubby Kaye, Robert Merrill, Beverly Sills, and Frank Sinatra. Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s, correspondence to and from program staff members, scripts, promotional material, and advertising and sponsor documents also are part of the collection.
- Contents Note
- Applications, photographs, correspondence, promotional material, scripts
- Preferred Citation
- Original Amateur Hour Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subjects
- Radio/Television
- Bowes, Edward
- Brewer, Teresa
- Kaye, Stubby
- Mack, Ted
- Merrill, Robert
- Sills, Beverly
- Sinatra, Frank
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Finding Aid
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu004002
Last Updated: 08-21-2012