Vaudeville

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Box includes five [5] file folders from the writing and music series. File folder seven: lyrics and sheet music; file folder eight: notes and short stories; file folder nine: poems; file folder ten: short story by Dorothy Grey; file folder eleven: scripts.

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Contains Mexican style costume skirt and castanets.

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This box contains multiple series: material culture, writings, and photographs. The photographs file folder contains two portrait photos including one of Bert Byron and one of Dolly Grey.

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This box contains multiple series: material culture, writings, and photographs. The writings file folder contains a script entitled "Wedlock Inn", which has a note on the front labeling the script as "property of Bert Byron".

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Box contains Dolly Grey's Assuit shawl. Assuit shawls are a textile marrying mesh with small strips of metal.

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Box contains Bert Byron's black three piece suit with matching cape and Dolly Grey's brown fur coat with matching muff.

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Contains two negatives and prints of Dorothy and Harryette Bercu.

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Dorothy Bercu is shown in a classical modern dance costume, barefoot, and is doing splits. Dorothy and her sister Harryette were vaudeville performers in the 1920s and 1930s.

Abstract The Grey and Byron collection contains a variety of materials from the traveling Vaudeville pair, Dolly Grey and Bert Byron. Types of materials include clothing, accessories, jewelry, handgun, bullets, photographs, newspaper clippings, membership certificates, property documents, death certificates, scripts, poems, notes, short stories, sheet music, lyrics, general ledgers, pocket calendars, travel albums, and photo albums. Individuals included in this collection include Dolly Grey, Bert...

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Harryette Bercu is doing splits in the air with each foot on a chair. Her arms are outstretched and she is wearing a two piece costume.