{"id":5692,"date":"2016-10-26T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2016-10-26T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T17:34:03","slug":"keithalbee-vaudeville-collection-in-diy-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2016\/10\/26\/keithalbee-vaudeville-collection-in-diy-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith\/Albee Vaudeville Collection in DIY History!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/kadiy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4636 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/kadiy-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"kadiy\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/kadiy-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/kadiy-1024x785.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/kadiy.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Iowa Libraries presents a wonderful and exciting opportunity for one and for all: The Keith\/Albee Vaudeville Theater Collection in glorious DIY History! Now you too can step right up and take part in transcribing these exciting behind-the-scenes reports!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first 24 books in the Keith\/Albee collection, totaling 7,774 images, are now available for transcription in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/keithalbee\" >DIY History<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0These initial volumes consist of typed theater managers\u2019 reports, giving one a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse of vaudeville theater during its time. The managers give their own blunt impression of every act that has graced the Keith\/Albee vaudeville stages, ranging wildly from lavish praise to scathing criticism. Included in these books are many people who later became legendary stars, such as W.C. Fields, Harry Houdini, and Buster Keaton.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4633\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/Page_64a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4633 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/Page_64a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"page_64a\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/Page_64a-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/files\/2016\/10\/Page_64a-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page including internal review of Harry Houdini from Keith\/Albee managers&#8217; report book, March 9-December 14, 1908.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/keithalbee\" >The Keith\/Albee collection<\/a>, one of the most important and comprehensive vaudeville archives in the country, has steadily become available in the Iowa Digital Library<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This collection, spanning 150 over sized ledger volumes, documents several decades of vaudeville theater in New England. The Keith\/Albee digitization project has been made possible by a generous <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/2014\/03\/28\/ui-libraries-receives-neh-300000-three-year-grant\/\" >Preservation and Access grant from the National Endowment for Humanities<\/a>, with a projected completion date in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Start transcribing this collection <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/keithalbee\" >here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information contact: \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Justin Baumgartner, Keith\/Albee Digital Project\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Librarian, (319) 384-3431, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:justin-baumgartner@uiowa.edu\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">justin-baumgartner@uiowa.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries presents a wonderful and exciting opportunity for one and for all: The Keith\/Albee Vaudeville Theater Collection in glorious DIY History! 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