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Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

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: Albert Kennedy Rowswell: humorist-philosopher-author

: Alexander Karr: speaker

: Alexander Kerensky: Premier of Russia, 1917

: Alfred G. Arvold

: Alfred M. Bingham

: Alonzo W. Pond: explorer - anthropologist adventurer

: Amelia Earhart

: An American examines the international mirage

: Anita Sky Eyes: presents "All By Myself"

: Another Language: With George Phelps and the Horner Players

: The astounding story of radium: by Luther S. H. Gable, Ph.D

: Australia now!

: B. R. Baumgardt Lectures

: The B. R. Baumgardt Lectures

: B. R. Baumgardt Lectures

: Barnett R. Brickner

: Bertha Lotta Sorensen: contralto

: Braggiotti

: Brayton Eddy: humanizing nature

: Brayton Eddy: humanizing nature

: A brilliant political leader and speaker: Phil LaFollete of Wisconsin

: C. J. Albrecht

: C. J. Albrecht

: Capt. Art Hook: world famous sea diver hero and adventurer

: Capt. John D. Craig

: Captain James P. O'Donovan

: Carl B. Livingston

: Carl B. Livingston: caves and canyons of the Carlsbad country

: Carl Sandburg

: Carl Sandburg: America's most distinctive poet

: Carl Sandburg: America's most distinctive poet

: Charles S. Seely

: Clarence W. Sorensen, F.R.G.S.: traveler and news commentator

: Cleo Dawson

: Clyde L. Eddy

: Colonel Charles E. Lounsbury: noted Chicago prosecutor

: Cornelia Otis Skinner

: Cornelia Otis Skinner: in her original modern monologues

: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr

: Cutler-Griffin Artists: the trio de luxe

: Cutler-Griffin Artists: the trio de luxe

: Cutler-Griffin Artists: the trio de luxe

: David D. Vaughan

: David Irwin

: Davis Edwards: dramatic recitals and lecturers

: Dean E. Smith

: The Deep River Plantation Singers

: The Deep River Plantation Singers

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Title: Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
Contributor: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
Date Created: 1904/1932
Description: 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.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: Chautauquas
Subject: Time: 1900-1910; 1910-1920; 1920-1930; 1930-1940
Subject: Place: United States
Item Type (DCMI): Collection