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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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Entertainment in the 19th Century
Scotland. Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library.
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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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National Library of Scotland - Playbills of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
Scotland. Searchable scanned images.
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Prior and Norris Vaudeville Troupe Photographs and Ephemera, 1886-1915
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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The creator and original project director for vaudevilleamerica.org was Dr. David Monod, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University.
