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Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

: Basanta Koomer Roy

: Bhaskar P. Hivale

: Bhaskar P. Hivale

: Bhaskar P. Hivale

: Bhaskar Pandurang Hivale

: Bhaskar Pandurang Hivale

: Capt. L. R. C. Robinson

: Chandra Dharma Sena Gooneratne: lecturer

: Chandra Sena Gooneratne: lectures on India

: Dr. Sudhindra Bose: "Messenger of Brotherhood"

: Jehan Warliker

: Jehan Warliker

: Jehan Warliker

: Jim Wilson

: Mediapolis Independent Chautauqua official program, twenty-third annual assembly, Mediapolis, Iowa, August 13-20, 1926

: M.H.H. Joachim: notable author and traveler - a native of Calcutta, India

: M.H.H. Joachim: notable author and traveler - a native of Calcutta, India

: Mohammad Ali

: Rev. Robert Stuart MacArthur, D.D., LL.D.

: Sakharam Ganesh Pandit

: Sakharam Ganesh Pandit

: Sarath Kumar Ghosh: Prince Sarath Ghosh of Ghoshpara

: Sudhindra Bose, M.A., Ph.D.: of Calcutta, India

: Sydna White

: Tarini Prasad Sinha

: V.E.I.M. Ilahi-Baksh: lecturer

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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