[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe

1938-1934.

Price: $1,500.00

Unbound. 16 disbound photo album pages measuring 12" x 10". Contains 54 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 4" x 5" and 8" x 10" with captions. Very good pages with edgewear with near fine photographs.

A photo album compiling photographs or musicians, singers, and vaudeville troupes between 1938 and 1940. The album combines professional photographs and headshots as well as shots from live performances. The acts include singing and playing instruments as well as comedy duos and skits with performers dressed in costumes. One woman, Edna Pestel in seen dressed as a sailor with a mustache singing and dancing in 1938, another act Kelley and Harp, a man and a younger boy, are seen dressed as cowboys with rifles. An African American woman, Minnie Sharpe, is seen singing in a few shots. One of the events is Luau Tiki themed and shows the performers in grass skirts and Hawaiian shirts. Professional headshots are also seen interspersed throughout the album of Gloria Day, Vicki Allen, George Duffy, Nita Norman, and Lou Posey, among others, all who appear to have been show business industry alums who never quite “made it.” Although by this time the popularity of Vaudeville had died down, variety acts where still sought after.

A nice collection of entertainment photographs at the end of the 1930s.


Item #423287

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Item #423287 [Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe
[Disbound Photo Album]: Singers, Musicians, Vaudeville Troupe