Vaudeville

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• Amusements

• Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.)

• Vaudeville -- United States

• Variety shows (Theater)
• Variety-theaters

• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Writing for Vaudeville, With Nine Complete Examples of Various Vaudeville Forms, by Brett Page (Gutenberg text)

• Bones: His Anecdotes and Goaks (London: C. H. Clarke, ca. 1870), by G. W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minstrel Encyclopedia (Boston: W. H. Baker Co., 1921), by Walter Ben Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minstrel Guide and Joke Book (Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenhiemer, c1912), ed. by Paul E. Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Minstrels: A Complete Guide to Negro Minstrelsy, Containing Recitations, Jokes, Crossfires, Conundrums, Riddles, Stump Speeches, Ragtime and Sentimental Songs, Etc., Including Hints on Organizing and Successfully Presenting a Performance (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Jack Haverly (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Up-to-Date Minstrel Jokes: A Collection of the Latest and Most Popular Jokes, Talks, Stump-Speeches, Conundrums and Monologues for Amateur Minstrels, Many of Which Have Never Before Appeared in Print; Also, a Special Department of Female Minstrel Jokes (with 4 appended farces; Boston: Up-to-Date Pub. Co., c1902), ed. by Herman Henry Wheeler, contrib. by George H. Coes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• The Public Dance Halls of Chicago, by Louise W. de Koven Bowen (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Gertrude Jekyll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Entertainments for Home, Church and School, by Frederica Seeger, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• Healthful Sports for Boys, by Alfred Rochefort (Gutenberg text)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Wings and the Child: or, The Building of Magic Cities (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by E. Nesbit, illust. by George Barraud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ethel Morton at Rose House (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Popular Amusements: An Appeal to Methodists, In Regard to the Evils of Card-Playing, Billiards, Dancing, Theatre-Going, Etc., by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)

• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1869), by J. T. Crane (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• Tired Church Members, by Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)

• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy's Century of Charades (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

• American Clown: Athletic Dance for Men or Boys (second edition, 1927), by George Martin Caskey (frame-dependent page images at sc.edu)
• The Art of Dancing: Its Theory and Practice, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Clendenen's Treatise on Elementary and Classical Dancing, by F. Leslie Clendenen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Course of Instruction in Dancing and Aesthetic Development of the Body, by L. F. Segaldo (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dances of To-Day, by Albert W. Newman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Danciad, by Thomas Wilson (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, As a Means of Physical Education, by Mrs. Alfred Webster (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing at Home and Abroad, by C. H. Cleveland (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing, Beauty, and Games (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1913), by Constance Stewart-Richardson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Dance the Revived Ancient Dances, by Ardern Holt (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Lure of the Dance, by Thomas A. Faulkner (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the Recreation of Adolescents, by Ella Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Sketches Relative to the History and Theory, but More Especially to the Practice of Dancing, by Francis Peacock (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Social Dance, by R. A. Adams (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Stage and Fancy Dancing, by F. C. Nott (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Tango and Other Up-to-Date Dances, by J. S. Hopkins (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Terpsichorean Monitor, by William E. Greene (HTML and page images at LOC)
• "Tips to Dancers," Good Manners for Ballroom and Dance Hall, by Vivian Persis Dewey (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Dancing, by James P. Cassidy (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Treatise on the Use and Peculiar Advantages of Dancing and Exercises, Considered as a Means of Refinement and Physical Development, by Francis Mason (page images and partial HTML at LOC)

• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup, by Cicely Kent (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.