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19239283New York City 1923. Two black and white 8x10 photographs with some fading very good. <br /> <br /> The Andrieff Trio was a popular terpsichorean act in the 1920s Vaudeville scene made up of married couple Yasha and Marie Andrieff and Yasha's brother Andrew Andrieff. All three dancers were Russian and trained in both classical and popular dance styles. Their headlining act was what they called the "double face dance" where Marie danced with both men simultaneously and through clever costuming and choreography seemed to be perpetually facing the audience as her partners spun her around the stage.<br /> <br /> The group was scheduled to perform at the Bushwick Theater part of B.F. Keith's network of Vaudeville performance venues the week of September 3 1923. The picture of just Yasha and Marie is dated September 10 and inscribed to "our dear friend Mr. and Mrs. Klawans" likely referring to Bernard "Barney" Klawans the Broadway producer. unknown
191559794Chicago IL & Santa Monica CA: Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. Blance Bryan & Morrill Streeter ca. 1915. One silver gelatin real photo postcard sepia-tinted AZO stamp box on verso bearing four triangles at corners point upwards carefully trimmed to 3.5 x 4.5 in. as advertising trade card slightly over-exposed minor dustsoiling still very bright image from the collection of Blanche Bryan Streeter. This promotional sample RPPC advertising the talents of the Streeter-Bryan Stock Co. prima donna with miniature “head-shot†photos tracing her career from Vaudeville ingenue to successful singer along the circuit. Bryan 1879-1976 starred and promoted with her husband Morrill Streeter 1866-1948 playing in productions across the Midwest Oklahoma and Southwest. She starred in three silent movies in 1915 including The Man in the Attic The Sons of Satan and His Vindication. Their “Land of Joy Girls†ran in 1917 for months and were noted for their magnificent costumes & scenery from the Rose Company of Chicago. The pair were also well known at the time for their 1923 automobile vaudeville tour “Plugging Expedition†through Illinois Missouri Colorado Texas New Mexico and California featuring well-appointed automobile and trailer with camping equipment and supplies. Streeter-Bryan Stock Co., Blance Bryan & Morrill Streeter, unknown
19285820Various locations 1928. Good. 28 leaves illustrated with seventy-five photographs and numerous ephemeral items. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black paper-covered boards string tied. Some chipping scuffing and soiling to boards. Contents worn and shaken with some leaves detached or trimmed some images detached. Still a lively collection. A unique vernacular photograph album and scrapbook documenting a couple of years of Strout's Military Hussar Band a notable sideshow act that toured the country in the early part of the 20th century. A newspaper clipping one of about thirty in the album describes the group: "one of the finest bands in the country is furnishing music at the fair and has already made a big hit with the visitors. In the bright red uniform of the Hussars the band makes an excellent appearance." Another clipping states that "This attraction a singing band of some 16 members is said to be one of the most pretentious organizations of its sort on tour this year." The photographs within are mostly portraits of the band members the majority of which have been shape-cut out of larger photographs. There are also group photographs of other circus performers and sideshow acts as well as some images capturing the after-effects of a train crash; the side of the train reads "D.D. Murphy Shows" a well-known promoter during this period with whom the Hussar Band apparently traveled. One of the more interesting group photographs is pasted on the inside front cover and shows seven large individuals next to a manuscript caption reading "World's Fattest Family."<br /> <br /> The ephemeral items peppered throughout the album include tickets to fairs in Beaumont Texas; Little Rock Arkansas; Fargo Minot and Devil's Lake North Dakota; Memphis Tennessee; and Sedalia Missouri. Other ephemeral items include a business card for the solo clarinet and saxophonist of Strout's Hussar Band Benne Kenner; other business and calling cards newspaper clippings and other clippings probably from magazines. unknown
60174Various places including Auburn New York early 20th century. Formerly framed; some items laid down on mat boards; generally very attractive. various sizes up to about 20 x 16 inches matted. 18 items including illustrated flyers advertising Milo Vagge and the Vagge Bag Punching Act original photographs of vaudeville acts with the blind-embossed stamp of the "White Hats Actor's Union of American and Associated Actresses of America" 4 photographs of other performers inscribed to the Vagges and 8 broadsides etc. featuring clog dancing comedy and musical bag punching steel top table dancing juggle lifting and posing the "High-class Irish Comedy 'The Wright and Mr. Wrong'" Novelty Acrobats comedy Boxers etc. hardcover
D19738Collection of approximately 20 real photo postcards most signed and many addressed to a Miss Florie Florrie Hopkins. First decade of the 20th century. Vaudeville performers. A delightful group. Also included is a large photo of a young woman dated Kansas City 1915. <br/><br/> unknown
1938000012475n.p.: n.p. 1938. Photograph. Very Good. 61 cm x 48 cm. Glossy black and white photograph. The photograph depicts from left to right: Chico Harpo and Groucho Marx all gathered around a harp with cheeky expressions on their faces. The harp that is pictured is the one that was used in their 1939 film At the Circus. The Marx Brothers got their start in Vaudeville but would go on to make several motion pictures in the first days of the Silver Screen. Thirteen of their films have been rated in the AFI's top 100 comedic motion pictures: their impact on cinema cannot be overstated. The brothers were sons of German-Jewish immigrants and their mother Minnie acted as their manager until her passing in 1929. In this photograph going left to right the three oldest Marx brothers are shown Chico or Leonard Marx Adolph or Harpo and the youngest of the three Julius or Groucho Marx. A few pinholes and light wear to the corners of the photograph. n.p. unknown
192555679Kokomo IN & Lewiston ID: Lylburn B. Johnson 514 S. Webster ca. 1925-1933. Seven pieces. 1st - Folio. 11 x 14 in. Photo-illustrated broadside printed on thick card stock minor soiling very small and slight oil stain at upper fore-edge still VG; 2nd -- 8vo. 4 x 8 in. Four pieces printed on colour-tinted newsprint stock 1 w/ additional stamping minor toning edgewear; 3rd. - 16mo. 2.5 x 3.5 in. Photo-illust. on playing card by T.L. DeLand design on verso rounded corners NF; 4to. 2 x 4 in. photo-printed business card w/ lettering & address on recto illustration on verso NF. Fascinating small collection of exceedingly scarce promotional advertising for the Kokomo IN illusionist and magician Lylburn Johnson b. 1904. He performed with the Chautauqua Circuit between 1925 and 1929 and later on the vaudeville circuit throughout the Midwest and West for private clubs fundraisers vaudeville theaters and more. His act illustrated as illustrated on these pieces incorporated his double death defying feat of begin handcuffed and locked in a barrel full of water escaping from ropes tied to a chair as well as the Mysterious Mail Bag Escape in which he had been locked. In addition he would drive a car blindfolded perform illusions such as the floating woman floating ball and skull the burning cone of water and perform mind reading and spiritualist portions as well. One of the playbills specifically cites performing at the Legion Club House for a P.T.A. Benefit in Lewiston ID Friday Nov. 10 1933. Johnson was the only child of the noted Kokomo IN physician Dr. Oliver Johnson 1878-1927 and although continuing to list the family home as his place of residence and business on the advertising cards included here appears in no street directories trade directories or census records after 1910. No copies in Worldcat; See: Lylburn B. Johnson The Great Johnson with His Mysteries Brochures and Promotional Materials Redpath Chautauqua Collection Univ. of Iowa Special Collections No. MSC0150. Lylburn B. Johnson, 514 S. Webster, unknown
1920List2734Unknown location 1920. Approximately 10 x 13 inches. Some tears and chips at edges very good contrast editorial overpainting on recto overall very good. Marks on verso reading “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12â€. Very good. Julian Eltinge 1881/1883–1941 was an American actor and “female impersonatorâ€â€”in today’s terms a drag performer—from Newtonville Massachusetts. Eltinge’s drag career began at age ten and by the early 1900s he was touring internationally performing a vaudeville act wherein the “audience was completely deceived as to Eltinge’s sex until he removed his wigâ€1. This portrait shows Eltinge seated in costume. On the reverse is written “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12†and the front is signed “Herold Brown†this signature does not appear to belong to commercial photographer Harold M. Brown. A stamp is legible that dates the photograph to the 1920s though the exact year is not legible. Eltinge has been described as “without question the most famous female impersonator of all time†ibid.<br /> <br /> 1 Slide Anthony “Julian Eltinge†in The Vaudevillians: A Dictionary of Vaudeville Performers Westport Connecticut: Arlington House 1981 46. unknown
1910List3655New York / Chicago / London: M. Witmark & Sons 1910. Folio sheet music 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Color pictorial cover. Light wear and minor creasing to edges; very good overall. A lively Irish-themed novelty song promoted as “Emma Carus’ Great Irish Song Hit†issued by the major popular music publisher M. Witmark & Sons. The cover illustration shows Carus dancing before a marching crowd carrying a banner reading “Home Rule†evoking the Irish nationalist movement then a prominent political issue both in Ireland and among Irish-American communities. Emma Carus 1879–1927 was a well-known American vaudeville performer and comic singer who appeared widely in theaters and variety shows during the early twentieth century. Born in New York she became a popular stage personality through novelty songs and character performances often introducing new numbers that were quickly issued in sheet music by publishers such as Witmark. The present piece with lyrics by Bob Harty and music by Ernest Breuer reflects the continuing popularity of Irish-themed songs in American vaudeville and popular music during the period when political themes such as Irish Home Rule frequently appeared in theatrical songs and stage sketches aimed at Irish-American audiences. We find a copy with a variant cover in commerce but not this design. M. Witmark & Sons unknown
1419219549奉天. Mukden.: 滿鐵鐵道總局營業局旅客課. Mantetsutetsudōsōkyokueigyōkyokuryokakuka Hōten. Showa 14 1939. Black and white photographic illustrations 18.7 x 12.7cm 33pp original wrappers upper cover pictorial. Minor wear and light browning. Good copy. This charming tourist booklet with its delightful pictorial cover offers a comprehensive introduction to Peking Opera and Chinese vaudeville. It outlines the rules governing movement and costume in opera and describes the range of story types and productions a visitor might expect to see. The vaudeville section explains the various forms of oral entertainment performed for audiences together with the customs and rules observed in the theatre. Published in Mukden the booklet provides an accessible and informative overview of the region’s popular entertainments. . 滿鐵鐵道總局營業局旅客課. [Mantetsutetsudōsō unknown
1899List2923Portland Oregon 1899. Two double-sided clippings measuring approximately 7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches both put together with tape. Slightly wrinkled and toned; excellent. Matilda Sissieretta Jones 1869–1933 was an African-American opera singer from Portsmouth Virginia. She studied at the Providence Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the start of her career Jones sang solo or in small groups touring North and South America the Caribbean and Europe. Jones’ talent was renowned; she was the first Black artist to sing at Carnegie Hall and she performed for multiple US presidents and the English royal family among many other accomplishments.1 In 1896 she formed Black Patti’s Troubadours—Jones was given the nickname “Black Patti†by a critic after famed Spanish opera singer Adelina Patti. The Troubadours would perform comical vaudeville and minstrel skits without Jones followed by Jones performing her “operatic kaleidoscope†of musical excerpts.<br /> <br /> Offered here are two magazine clippings—based on the advertisements these were printed in Portland Oregon—promoting two Black Patti’s shows: “A Rag Time Frolic at Ras-Bury Park†and “Jolly ‘Coon’-ey Islandâ€. The latter was written by Ernest Hogan a musician widely credited with creating the ragtime genre; he would become the first African-American performer to produce and star in a Broadway show 1907’s The Oyster Man. Jones’ kaleidoscope pieces include excerpts from Faust Pirates of Penzance and others; both shows also feature an audience-judged cakewalk. Of interest to scholars of M. Sissieretta Jones and African-American entertainers at the turn of the century.<br /> <br /> 1 “Jones M. Sissieretta ‘Black Patti’†in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience ed. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Basic Civitas Books 1999 1064. unknown
1923H6749Dayton OH: Paine Publishing Co 1923. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps 67 pp very good light wear. Story centers on the Merkle family and her two daughters one of whom is ambitious one of whom is not and the complications that ensue from this. Included in the cast are Rastus Johnsing 'An Honest Coon' and his wife Dinah Johnsing a servant. OCLC locates three copies in institutions. Paine Publishing Co paperback
1887H7060New York: Richard A. Saalfield 1887. Good. Quarto 11.5 inches tall pictorial color wraps 171 pp of music plus a few ads. Good with some staining and loss to spine crease on cover mended on the verso with old tape; it has not stained the page light wear and soil some wear to title page and to table of contents page soil but generally very good and clean inside. RARE with only one copy cited by OCLC at Brown University. Unusually the cover artist misspelled 'motto' as 'mottoe' -- see one of the pics for a shot of the table of contents. Richard A. Saalfield unknown
