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Armond Fields American Theatre collection
Collection
Identifier: 0337
Abstract
This collection documents the history of the American stage before talking cinema, reflecting the birth and death of vaudeville and the advent of the modern Broadway musical. The collection includes books, posters, theater programs, sheet-music covers, souvenirs, rare film footage of vaudevillians, including Weber & Fields, and manuscripts and research notes for Armond Fields' own books.
Dates:
1856 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1925
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library
Gladys Ryland papers
Collection
Identifier: 0186
Abstract
Materials pertaining to group dances collected by the social worker Gladys Ryland in the 1930s and 1940s.
Dates:
1930 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1945
Found in:
USC Libraries Music Library