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Contact information: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.contact
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2020570120
DACS was used as the primary description standard.
Collection material in English.
Purchase, 2020
Further accruals are possible.
Mónica Hurd processed the Vaudeville and Minstrel Photograph Collection and coded the finding aid in 2021.
Materials from the Vaudeville and Minstrel Photograph Collection are governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and other applicable international copyright laws.
The Vaudeville and Minstrel Photograph Collection is open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Music Division prior to visiting in order to determine whether the desired materials will be available at that time.
Certain restrictions on using or copying materials may apply.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container or reel or digital ID number], Collection of Minstrel and Vaudeville Photographs, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Vaudeville and Minstrel Photograph Collection contains 31 headshots and publicity photographs of prominent minstrel and vaudeville acts and performers. The material chiefly dates from 1918 through the mid-1930s. Of note are photographs of actor Herbert Rawlinson, vocalist Vera Deane, and black performers Minus & Bryant and Sims & Warfield: The Black Americans.
Fellow vaudeville singer Margaret Sabo compiled a large portion of the vaudeville performer headshots, and these include personal inscriptions to her. Other photographs include inscriptions to the orchestra and one to an unknown "Jeannie."
Some of these images depict performers in blackface.
The collection is arranged in one series:
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
This series chiefly contains headshots of vaudeville performers in addition to publicity photographs of various minstrel and vaudeville acts. Photographs have been identified by their inscriptions. However, not all inscriptions include surnames of performers. Some of these images depict performers in blackface.
Arranged alphabetically by first name of performer or full act name.