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Category : Cambridge (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Account of Old Home Week, Cambridge, N.Y. September 10, 11 and 12, 1916
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Category : Cambridge (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Cambridge (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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News Notes of California Libraries
Author: California State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Black and White Record, the Every-week Journal of Holstein Progress
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Introducing Bert Williams
Author: Camille F. Forbes
Publisher: Civitas Books
ISBN: 0786722355
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and-ready "medicine shows" that then dotted the West, he rose through the ranks of big-time vaudeville in New York City, and finally ascended to the previously all-white pinnacle of live-stage success: the fabled Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Inspite of his triumphs-he brought the first musical with an all-black cast to Broadway in 1903-he was often viewed by the black community with more critical suspicion than admiration because of his controversial decision to perform in blackface. Modest, private, and conservative in his personal life, Williams left political activism and soapbox thumping to others. More than the simple narration of a remarkable life, Introducing Bert Williams offers a fascinating window into the fraught issues surrounding race and artistic expression in American culture. The story of Williams's long and varied career is a whirlwind of inner turmoil, racial tension, glamour, and striving-nothing less than the birth of American show business.
Publisher: Civitas Books
ISBN: 0786722355
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and-ready "medicine shows" that then dotted the West, he rose through the ranks of big-time vaudeville in New York City, and finally ascended to the previously all-white pinnacle of live-stage success: the fabled Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Inspite of his triumphs-he brought the first musical with an all-black cast to Broadway in 1903-he was often viewed by the black community with more critical suspicion than admiration because of his controversial decision to perform in blackface. Modest, private, and conservative in his personal life, Williams left political activism and soapbox thumping to others. More than the simple narration of a remarkable life, Introducing Bert Williams offers a fascinating window into the fraught issues surrounding race and artistic expression in American culture. The story of Williams's long and varied career is a whirlwind of inner turmoil, racial tension, glamour, and striving-nothing less than the birth of American show business.
Moore's Rural New-Yorker
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
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