Loose Items Found in Scrapbook

The collection contains one scrapbook, begun August 3, 1912, by Billy Lightelle, vaudeville performer, and contains receipts for payments for performances from around the United States; employment contracts from vaudeville circuit agencies, including the B. F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange, the Poli Circuit, and from Bernard Burke: Vaudeville Manager and Producer; plot synopses; photographs; newspaper clippings and programs regarding Lightelle’s own acts as well as other performers such as Dolly and Harry Parker, Billy Shirley, Bot Schafer, Professor Wheeler, Don Santos, and Baby Athlone; song lyrics and scripts; plot ideas and storylines; and two pieces of handwritten sheet music.