Title: Traveling culture
Description: Collection of more than 8,700 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements, and talent circulars for performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. Derived from the Redpath Lyceum Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries, materials promote entertainers, lecturers, and performing groups such as teachers, preachers, statesmen, politicans, actors, singers, opera stars, glee clubs, concert companies, magicians, and whistlers. Redpath Lyceum Bureau was the largest booking agency for circuit Chautauqua, an enterprise that between 1904 and 1932 brought together thousands of performers and lecturers and millions of small town residents across the US.
Subjects: Chautauquas, History, Lyceums, Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Places: United States