Finding Aid for Portraits of Performers, 1870-1951, undated, bulk 1870-1935
Title:
Portraits of performers
Dates:
1870-1951, undated (bulk 1870-1935)
Number:
2014.R.4
Extent:
7.4 linear feet
(7 boxes)
Abstract:
The collection comprises 385 studio portraits dating from the 1870s to the 1930s of variety show artists including vaudeville,
burlesque, minstrel and stage performers. The card-mounted portraits, primarily cabinet cards, depict sketch, character and
comedic actors; singers; dancers; acrobats; gymnasts; contortionists; clowns; acrobatic cyclists; jugglers; aerialists and
trapeze and wire artists; ventriloquists; minstrel singers and players; comedians; male and female impersonators; strongmen
and strongwomen; show riders and other performers hailing from and photographed across Europe, the United States, Egypt, and
Latin America.
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Language:
Collection material is in
English and
French with some
German.
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688 (310) 440-7390
Author:
Finding aid prepared by Beth Ann Guynn, B. Karenina Karyadi and Linda Kleiger
