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Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
1904/1932
Thousands of publicity brochures, promotional advertisements, talent circulars, and musical recordings for performers and lecturers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit, bringing culture to small-town America. This digital collection presents promotional performers circulars (publicity brochures), musical and spoken word recordings, and programs drawn from the Records of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, the largest booking agency for circuit Chautauqua, an enterprise that between 1904 and 1932 brought together under the canvas of large tents thousands of performers and lecturers and millions of small town residents across the United States.
English
Chautauquas
1900-1910; 1910-1920; 1920-1930; 1930-1940
United States
Collection
