Performing Arts in America: 1875-1923 - The Diigo Meta page

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  Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an authentic look at this past, from the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes, all brought to you in original documents. Captured in the then new techniques of photography, recorded sound, and film, the performing arts of the early twentieth century come alive as never before, preserved by The New York Public Library and brought to you a century later via the Internet.
  Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 was funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. It presents a searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the Performing Arts Library collections. The overall richness of these collections is demonstrated by the variety of complementary original resources that, studied together, can inform and further an understanding of one artist, an entire production, or a whole era. Included are clippings from a broad range of newspapers; composite photographs, called "keysheets" that contain large numbers of reduced-size promotional shots; music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz and dance music; photographs of theater, dance, and popular performance; and publicity posters and lobby cards, the latter produced in the early years of the film industry and used in theater lobbies to promote films."

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  Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of this world. With visual and audio images drawn from the extensive archival collections at The Library, the site features an aut

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  16,000 primary source documents on entertainment in the United States -- includes video and audio clips

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  Describes the New York Public Library's performing arts collection. Good pictures and sound clips; it has sheet music from the period.

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  Performing Arts in America 1875 -1923, a web site of The New
  York Public Library for the Performing Arts, captures a glimpse of the
  world of American entertainment with visual and audio images drawn from
  the extensive archival collections at The Lib

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  Includes clippings from a broad range of newspapers; composite photographs ("keysheets"); music sheet samples featuring popular music, show-tunes, jazz & dance music; photographs of theater, dance, and popular performance; publicity posters & lobby cards.

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