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Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook
- Title
- Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook, 1922-1962 (bulk 1920-1930).
- Author
- Glenn, Willam H.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 599 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- 1 vol.
- Summary
- The contents of the scrapbook includes reviews and advertisments of their comedy routines dating from 1922 to 1949 and 1962. The scrapbook also contains notes, flyers, photographs, telegrams, greeting cards, and copies of their pay stubs.
- Subjects
- Jenkins, Walter
- African American wit and humor
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection
- Glenn and Jenkins (Comedy team)
- African American actors
- African American comedians
- Spencer, Edith
- Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971
- African American entertainers
- Reviews (Criticism)
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Easton, Sidney, 1885-1971
- Vaudeville > United States
- Comedians
- Scrapbooks
- Cooper, Opal, 1889?-1974
- Harris, A. Lincoln
- Glenn, William H
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Reviews (Criticism)
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson;
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection
- Biography (note)
- William H. Glenn and Walter Jenkins (Glenn & Jenkins) were a popular comedy team who performed on the vaudeville circuit and toured the United States, Canada, and London during the 1920s and 1930s. They became renowned for their black face routines, "Working for the Railway" and "The Broom Dance."
- Provenance (note)
- The collection was acquired by Ulysses S. Thompson. It was subsequently donated by Helen Armstead-Johnson along with other theater related collections to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 599
- OCLC
- 122686765
- Author
- Glenn, Willam H.
- Title
- Glenn and Jenkins scrapbook, 1922-1962 (bulk 1920-1930).
- Biography
- William H. Glenn and Walter Jenkins (Glenn & Jenkins) were a popular comedy team who performed on the vaudeville circuit and toured the United States, Canada, and London during the 1920s and 1930s. They became renowned for their black face routines, "Working for the Railway" and "The Broom Dance."
- Provenance
- The collection was acquired by Ulysses S. Thompson. It was subsequently donated by Helen Armstead-Johnson along with other theater related collections to the Schomburg Center.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Source
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection SCM 96-38 Scrapbook.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 599