print email comment close American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/ Description: This site "illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920." Includes a biographical chronology of escape artist and magician Harry Houdini, theater playbills and programs, sound and video clips, and Yiddish and English-language playscripts. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject and author. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: American drama Popular culture -- United States Vaudeville Yiddish drama LII Database Information: Record 15530 created by Tom McGibney on 08/18/2001 Last modification on 11/12/2007 Published: 08/18/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/15530