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American Vaudeville Museum

Has a place to post questions about vaudeville performers.

Circus Route Books | Milner Library - Illinois State

Various route books for circuses that include day to day info, pictures of performers and other cool things.

Circus World - Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center

Baraboo, Wisconsin. Collections of paper, photographic and sound materials relating to circus life.

Harvard Theatre Collection

Library of Congress - Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection

London.

Music and Entertainment History

Supported by the Society for the Preservation of Professional Touring Entertainment History to document the touring entertainment industry's history. From the University of Texas at Austin.

National Fairground Archive

United Kingdom. Collection of photographic, printed, manuscript & audiovisual material covering all aspects of the culture of travelling showpeople, their organisation as a community, their social history and everyday life; & the artefacts and machinery of fairgrounds. From the University of Sheffield

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

New York City, New York.

Performing Arts Museum

Melbourne, Australia.

Scottish Theatre Archive

University of Bristol Theatre Collection

Research centre dedicated to the study of British Theatre history and people.

Variety 1905-2014 (Internet Archive)

Variety is an active American magazine published weekly by Variety Media. Launched in 1905, it publishes the latest entertainment business news from around the world.

Variety.com Archives

Online searchable database of Variety magazine from 1914 onwards. Periodical of the American entertainment industry.

Vent Haven Museum

Only museum in the world dedicated to the art of ventriloquism.