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Biographical Dictionary of Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders

This site list biographical detail for organists, composers and organ builders. It includes birth and death details, places they have worked (lived) etc. Note quite a lot of these people were also teachers; the entries are world wide.

Entertainment in the 19th Century

Scotland. Scanned examples of original documents from the Lamb Collection of the Dundee Library.

Find a Grave Virtual Cemetery - Ventriloquists

Footlight Notes

Theatre, Variety, Music Hall, Vaudeville, Musical Comedy, Revue and other popular entertainment. Portraits, biographies, reviews, 1850s-1920s.

HAT - History of Australian Theatre

Including the Tivoli theatres in Sydney and Melbourne.

Internet Movie Database

Online searchable database including a cast and crew name search for people working in the film industry as early as 1890. Provides basic biographical details.

London Music Trades

A database from 1750 to 1800 intended to provide biographical and other information relating to any individuals based in London involved in any aspect of the the performance , publication and marketing of music. Database sources include poll books, apprenticeship records, wills and Sun Fire Office insurance policies.

National Library of Scotland - Playbills of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

Scotland. Searchable scanned images.

Nineteenth Century American Ventriloquists

Prior and Norris Vaudeville Troupe Photographs and Ephemera, 1886-1915

Photographs and ephemera from a collection of vaudeville performers, acts, and stage productions, primarily from the American vaudeville circuit from the late 1800s and early 1900.

The Era CD ROM Project

U.K. The Era was a Victorian entertainment newspaper and is a valuable resource in both academic theatre research and genealogy of entertainers. This project will make decades of this paper available on searchable CD ROM.

Vaudeville America

The creator and original project director for vaudevilleamerica.org was Dr. David Monod, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University.