| | 1 | Author: | Maye, Billee | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Billee Maye Vaudeville collection,
1920-1998 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1920-1998 | | | | Abstract: | The Billee Maye Vaudeville collection consists of
documentation, photographs, correspondence, and publications related to the career of
Billee Maye primarily during 1920 to 1940. Billee Maye was a singer and dancer who
performed during the Vaudeville era. The majority of her career was spent with colleague
Harry Roye, performing the "Roye and Maye" act for twenty years on the B.F.-Orpheum
circuit. The collection consists of documentation, photographs, correspondence, and
publications related to the career of Billee Maye primarily during 1920 to
1940. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Theaters -- United States | Vaudeville -- United States -- 20th century | Vaudeville | Entertainer -- Dancers | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 2 | Author: | Wertheim, Arthur Frank, 1935- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arthur Frank Wertheim Papers
1862-2005
(bulk 1895-1929) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1862-2005 | | | | Abstract: | Printed material and photographs, 1862-2005 (bulk 1895-1929). The bulk of the material is photocopies of printed materials, primarily newspaper and journal articles, collected by Wertheim while researching the writing of his book, Vaudeville Wars. The collection contains information on many aspects of Vaudeville including; performers, theater and circuit owners and managers, theater and circuit management and organization, professional associations and unions, theater buildings, legal activities, and the history of vaudeville as an industry. Photographs contain images of people, organizations and places associated with vaudeville. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Actors – Labor Unions – United States. | Entertainers -- United States. | Labor Unions – United States. | Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.). | Pantages Circuit of Vaudeville Theatres. | Shubert Brothers Archive – Lee, Jacob, & Sam. | Theater management – United States. | Theaters -- United States. | Theatrical managers -- United States. | Revues. | Vaudeville | Vaudeville – Employees – Labor Unions – United States. | Vaudeville—History. | White Rats of America. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 4 | Author: | Beals, Kathryn | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Kathryn Beals papers
1927-1928,
1976,
1994 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1927-1928, | | | | Abstract: | Papers and Photographs, 1927-1928, 1979, 1994. This collection contains
correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, and ephemera of Kathryn Beals, including two letters
to her sister from acquaintances upon Kathryn’s death in 1976. The bulk of the collection consists
of correspondence with her family and ephemera she collected while touring with the Peters-Wright
vaudeville dance troupe for 15 months in 1927-1928. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Correspondence | Entertainers--United States | Photographs | Theaters—United States | Vaudeville | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 6 | Author: | Jackson, Linda Diane | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Linda Diane Jackson collection,
1900-1990
(bulk 1985-1987) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1900-1990 | | | | Abstract: | Photographs, negatives, contact sheets, slides, film reels,
DVDs, VHS tapes, printed announcements, transcripts of interviews, circa 1900-1990
(bulk 1985-1987). This collection is comprised of the photographic, printed and
audio-visual materials produced and collected by Linda Diane Jackson. The bulk of
the material relates to documenting the private and stage lives of original vaudeville
entertainers | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Art and Photography | Documentary Photography | Portrait Photography | Appropriation (Art) | Vaudeville -- United States -- History -- 19th Century | Vaudeville -- United States -- History -- 20th Century | Entertainer -- United States -- Biography | Entertainers -- Portraits | Entertainers -- Portraits -- Exhibitions | Entertainers -- Portraits -- Interviews | Entertainer--actor | Entertainer--comedian | Entertainer--dancers | Entertainer--Stripteasers | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 9 | Author: | Goelet, Jane Grey. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Goelet Family Collection
1896-1971. ead | | | | Date(s): | 1896-1971. | | | | Abstract: | Photographs and Printed Material, 1896-1971 (bulk 1896-1929).
The bulk of the material is comprised of photographs of Vera Hall throughout her career
as Baby Hall, as part of the vaudeville act Raymond and Hall and as part of the vaudeville
act Goelet and Hall. Photos of her husband and partner John William Goelet and her partner
Edward Raymond are also included. The collection also contains printed material including
theater programs and announcements, sheet music, newsletters, newspaper clippings and a
scrapbook; documents including obituaries and a family tree; an audio tape of Jane Grey’s
memories; artifacts including pins and clothes fasteners; and slides from a retrospective
called a Salute to Vaudeville and of the family’s travels to Japan. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Photographs. | Vaudeville. | Musical theater. | Blackface entertainers. | Entertainers. | Theatres. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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