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Entertainment Industry

Advertising poster from “The War of Wealth”

Advertising poster from “The War of Wealth,” a play staged in the mid-1890s based on events from the Panic of…

An Important Merger in the Amateur Motion Picture Field, DeVry Movie News

“An Important Merger in the Amateur Motion Picture Field,” DeVry Movie News, April, 1929.

Anna Held poster

Anna Held poster, ca. 1898.

Erlanger, Abe to Marc Klaw

Abe Erlanger to Marc Klaw, letter, June 2, 1909. The letter is an example of the affectionate letters sent between…

Exhibitor advertisement for four Chaplin comedies in the British film trade publication The Bioscope

Exhibitor advertisement for four Chaplin comedies in the British film trade publication The Bioscope, July 9, 1914.

Five partners in the Ringling Bros. Circus

The Ringling brothers’ advertising posters often featured the five partners’ profiles. The posters conveyed a sense of family unity, arguably…

Front-page headline of the New York Times announcing eight White Sox players had been indicted for “fixing” the outcome of their World Series games against the Cincinnati Reds

Front-page headline of the New York Times, Sep. 29, 1920, announcing eight White Sox players had been indicted for “fixing”…

General Lew Wallace to Klaw & Erlanger accepting terms for their production of Ben-Hur

After tense negotiations, General Lew Wallace finally reached an agreement with Klaw & Erlanger to produce Ben-Hur onstage, 1899.

Heurich Brewery Baseball Schedule Order

Heurich ordered 3,015 baseball schedules to give away. These may have been schedules that showed all the games for both…

Ikey and Abey, Klaw & Erlanger Attraction

Klaw & Erlanger respond to General Wallace’s acceptance of terms to produce Ben-Hur

Klaw & Erlanger respond to General Wallace’s acceptance of terms to produce Ben-Hur.

Klaw & Erlanger to employee Al Aarons regarding vaudeville booking

Marc Klaw or Abe Erlanger to employee Al Aarons regarding vaudeville booking, June 3, 1907. Klaw & Erlanger never got…

Magazine advertisement honoring Charles Fey on “his Golden Anniversary in the Coin Machine Business”

MGM Contract

Contract between Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, J. Robert Rubin, and Metro-Goldwyn Pictures.

Movie Fan Magazine Profile of Thalberg

Dorothy Herzog, “How to Be a Producer,” Photoplay 24:5 (April 1926): 66, 130-1.

New York and New Jersey Exhibitors to Irving G. Thalberg

New York Motion Picture Company advertisement in the trade publication Moving Picture World

New York Motion Picture Company advertisement in the trade publication Moving Picture World, March 21, 1914, pg. 1557.

New York Motion Picture Corp. trade advertisement

New York Motion Picture Corp. trade advertisement, Sep. 29, 1914. From: Reel Life, Sep. 29, 1914

Newspaper Ad for Universal City

Advertisement for the opening of Universal Studios in California. The ad encourages people to visit the studios to "see how…

Poster for the Ziegfeld-produced play Mam’selle Napoleon, starring Anna Held

A 1903 poster for the Ziegfeld-produced play Mam’selle Napoleon, starring Anna Held.

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