Digital Collections
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CollectionVariety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures The 61 motion pictures in the Variety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures include animal acts, burlesque, dance, comic sketches, dramatic excerpts, dramatic sketches, physical culture acts, and tableaus. The films represented...
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1996
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CollectionYiddish Language Play Scripts from the Lawrence Marwick Collection The Yiddish theater developed as a uniquely American form in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York City, and other urban centers, during the early twentieth century. The 77 unpublished...
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CollectionInventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to this site in the...
- Date: 1847
Collection Items: View 432 Items
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CollectionPosters: Performing Arts Posters Contains approximately 2,100 posters in the online Performing Arts Posters category represent the entire contents of three collections: the Magic Poster Collection, the Minstrel Poster Collection, and the Theatrical Poster Collection.
- Contributor: Strobridge & Co. Lith - A.S. Seer Print - U.S. Printing Co - H.C. Miner Litho. Co - Metropolitan Litho. Studio - U.S. Lithograph Co - Courier Litho. Co
- Date: 1850
Collection Items: View 2,099 Items