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Biographical Dictionary of Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders
This site list biographical detail for organists, composers and organ builders. It includes birth and death details, places they have worked (lived) etc. Note quite a lot of these people were also teachers; the entries are world wide.
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Circus World - Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center
Baraboo, Wisconsin. Collections of paper, photographic and sound materials relating to circus life.
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Entertainment in the 19th Century
Scotland. Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library.
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FamilyOldPhotos.com - Circus Performers
Old, antique, or vintage photos. User submitted with family history and details.
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Theatre, Variety, Music Hall, Vaudeville, Musical Comedy, Revue and other popular entertainment. Portraits, biographies, reviews, 1850s-1920s.
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HAT - History of Australian Theatre
Including the Tivoli theatres in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Online searchable database including a cast and crew name search for people working in the film industry as early as 1890. Provides basic biographical details.
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A database from 1750 to 1800 intended to provide biographical and other information relating to any individuals based in London involved in any aspect of the the performance , publication and marketing of music. Database sources include poll books, apprenticeship records, wills and Sun Fire Office insurance policies.
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United Kingdom.
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Playbills from Edinburgh’s Theatre Royal
Scotland. Searchable scanned images.
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Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs
Photographs and ephemera from a collection of vaudeville performers, acts, and stage productions, primarily from the American vaudeville circuit from the late 1800s and early 1900.
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U.K. The Era was a Victorian entertainment newspaper and is a valuable resource in both academic theatre research and genealogy of entertainers. This project will make decades of this paper available on searchable CD ROM.
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U.K. Includes selected transcriptions of various census entries for showmen, actors & other travellers.
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Two Centuries of Circus People
U.K. Ongoing project to develop a biographical database of circus folk.
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This site is intended for people who are searching for ancestors they think may have been working on stage as performers in North America. I've used the Manitoba Free Press as a reference and copied the names of performers, their acts and scanned the pictures that went with them. Transcribed what was playing for most of 1913 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada because Winnipeg was part of the main vaudeville circuit of North America. Arranged to be searched by performer's name. The format lists the theatres and who and what was playing in each on a weekly basis, one week per page of all the theatres, and at the bottom of each page are listed the performers in order of appearance on the page. The names are also on one document in alphabetical order with the week they were playing beside each name. The searcher would thus be able to quickly scan the names, see what week they were on stage and then go to my weekly listing page that has a link for each week. Searchers have to bear in mind that in those days performers changed their names as often as they changed their act so you'd be advised to look for clues.
