American Vaudeville Museum

Portrait of Mayme Gehrue from 1909
May Boley in the musical The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl
Sarony portrait of Ethel Levey

The American Vaudeville Museum (AVM) was a vaudeville history and memorabilia museum in Edgewood, New Mexico which moved its collection to the University of Arizona and online.

The museum was founded by Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly.[1] The museum posted historic content online and published Vaudeville Times magazine quarterly from 1998 to 2008[2][3] Its virtual museum included a bibliography of sources and an index of vaudevillians.[4] The museum was founded in 1986.[5]

References

  1. ^ "American Vaudeville Museum Collection | Special Collections". speccoll.library.arizona.edu.
  2. ^ "link we like: American Vaudeville Museum". July 2, 2011.
  3. ^ Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (January 29, 2007). Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415938532 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Everett, William (2011). The Musical: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. ISBN 9781135848071 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Vaudeville Times". American Museum of Vaudeville. January 29, 2004 – via Google Books.

External links

  • American Vaudeville Museum website
  • University of Arizona Vaudeville Archive


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