Playbills

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Posters, full color and black and white, published in the United States and Europe, regarding wild west shows, traveling medicine shows, vaudeville acts, theatrical events, political elections, and the U.S. military. Also included are government propaganda posters, published in the United States, France and Italy during the first and second World Wars, regarding materials conservation, patriotism, liberty loans, military recruitment and other prominent wartime themes.

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Typescripts (1931-1954) of plays by Oklahoma playwright Lynn Riggs, and articles (1988-1993) regarding the works of Lynn Riggs, collected by a Lynn Riggs fan, Robert Shawn Riley. The collection also includes a finding aid to the Lynn Riggs Papers at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and correspondence (1995-1998) of Rob Riley regarding research materials on Lynn Riggs, and photocopied sheet music by Lynn Riggs.

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Poet and playwright. Correspondence (1921-1936), some with poetry enclosed; newspaper and magazine clippings (1926-1966); and manuscripts (1924-1932) by or regarding Riggs and his works. The collection also includes playbills for a number of his plays. Lynn Riggs Photograph Collection also in repository.

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Vaudevillian. Playbills advertising vaudeville and theater productions in which Price performed.