[Photo Album]: Travel and Vaudeville Comedians
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- Hardcover
- 1915
1915. Hardcover. Good. Oblong small quarto measuring 11" x 7.5". Black textured cloth over stiff paper boards. Contains 135 sepia-toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between .5" x .5" and 5" x 6.5" with some captions on the verso. Good only album with rubbing, chips, and tears with very good photographs.
A photo album compiled by a vaudeville performer with Murphy’s Comedians around 1915. The album begins with a group shot of performers in costume behind a tent in their backstage area. Performers, both men and women, are seen practicing instruments and acts backstage, during their leisure time, and setting up the tents. One of the tents is seen during set up with the “MC” banners for Murphy’s Comedians on either side of the stage. Another shows two men standing on the canvas and beams of a disassembled tent. Throughout the album the performers are seen traveling around the country with images of locomotives, horse drawn wagons, and automobiles. When not performing the troupe is spends their time playing baseball, picnicking, reading, and boating. Murphy’s Comedian’s show had an emphasis on stories from the American West including *The Last Roundup*, which they describe as “the greatest play of the Western Plains.”
A nice collection of candid snapshots following vaudeville performers around 1915.
A photo album compiled by a vaudeville performer with Murphy’s Comedians around 1915. The album begins with a group shot of performers in costume behind a tent in their backstage area. Performers, both men and women, are seen practicing instruments and acts backstage, during their leisure time, and setting up the tents. One of the tents is seen during set up with the “MC” banners for Murphy’s Comedians on either side of the stage. Another shows two men standing on the canvas and beams of a disassembled tent. Throughout the album the performers are seen traveling around the country with images of locomotives, horse drawn wagons, and automobiles. When not performing the troupe is spends their time playing baseball, picnicking, reading, and boating. Murphy’s Comedian’s show had an emphasis on stories from the American West including *The Last Roundup*, which they describe as “the greatest play of the Western Plains.”
A nice collection of candid snapshots following vaudeville performers around 1915.