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Box SC1900-1949.005

 Container

Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:

Scrapbook

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.005, Folder: 3870.02
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1912 - 1928
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-3870, Billy Lightelle Vaudeville Scrapbook

Photographs, 1943

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.005, Folder: 2021.007.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of thirteen black-and-white photographs depicting a group of Black women enlisted in the Women's Army Auxilary Corp (WAAC) in Des Moines, Iowa. Also included in the collection are two identical newspaper clippings featuring Miriam Wheeler and Herlyne Leonard, and a small booklet about the WAAC created by the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce as a memento.
Dates: 1943
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / 2021-007, Photographs and Ephemera from African American Member of Women's Army Auxilary Corps (WAAC)