Early Troupes & Bandmasters
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 11: Entertainment
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1841-1944, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0300.S11, Subseries 11.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Subseries 1, Early Troupes and Bandmasters, 1841-1944, undated. Most of the covers have images of troupe members. Nine different troupes, most notably the Hutchisons, are in separate folders and twelve others are in a folder together. Arthur Pryor is the only bandmaster with a separate folder; there are others in another folder. Minstrel items are in Series 3.1. Note that Merle Evans is in subseries 16, Circus, Fair, Zoo.