Scope and Content Note
The Vaudeville and Minstrel Photograph Collection contains 31 headshots and publicity photographs of prominent minstrel and vaudeville acts and performers. The material chiefly dates from 1918 through the mid-1930s. Of note are photographs of actor Herbert Rawlinson, vocalist Vera Deane, and black performers Minus & Bryant and Sims & Warfield: The Black Americans.
Fellow vaudeville singer Margaret Sabo compiled a large portion of the vaudeville performer headshots, and these include personal inscriptions to her. Other photographs include inscriptions to the orchestra and one to an unknown "Jeannie."
Some of these images depict performers in blackface.