Ventriloquism
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Magic
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1753-1939
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 6-7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes a few small books with instructions on becoming a ventriloquist.  There are also some clippings, which advertise for ventriloquists.   From the later years, there are photographs and correspondence of Valentine Vox, a ventriloquist during the thirties.  There are a couple of letters between Valentine Vox and James Madison, in which Vox hires Madison to write some jokes for his routine.