Vaudeville Scrapbook

n.p., 1906. Hardcover. Good. 27 gray leaves with information, mostly clipped from promotional material, etc. mounted on both sides of all leaves. Sound but discolored spine-sloped black album. 31 cm. Almost all of the material relates to a wide variety of performers -- singers and other musicians including at least two pairs of blackface minstrels, comedy acts, actors and plays, trick biyclists, acrobats, aerialists, wrestlers, jugglers (including The Tennis Duo -- probably Albrtus and Hawley), trick barrel jumpers, contortionists, etc. As to the date and location, an April, 1906 holograph note from Bob of "Bob and Daisy Cunningham" in Peoria assures John Connors in Springfield. Illinois that they will be there on time. A green broadside containing List No. 43 of around 200 silent films for rent from Inter Ocean Film Exchange in Chicago seems to list, based on a quick spot check, a lot of 1906 films although we failed to locate the film titled "Sherlock Holmes.