Box 1
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Contains 73 Results:
"The voices sang lustily as the studio size piano was attacked by the musicians " AMs, 10 sheets, 10 pages. An unpublished and unfinished manuscript by MBF's daughter, Marion Fisk Giersbach (1900-1991), provides perspective on why her mother ventured out as the family breadwinner. MFG also served on the Circuit while in her early twenties and speaks from first-hand knowledge. AMs and printout transcription.
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Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
10 cards (5 images) picture performers and tent in the 1909 Sabetha, Kansas, Chautauqua, MBF's first appearance.
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Identifier: Item 1
1 card pictures the Union Pacific depot in Valparaiso, Nebraska and has MBF's note, "Dear Momma, Here is how, when and where I have arrived for my second bureau engagement." April 14, 1909
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Identifier: Item 2
9 cards (4 images) picture MBF.
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Identifier: Item 3
2 cards (1 image) picture the tent for the Eureka, Kansas, Chautauqua, July 1-8, 1909
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Identifier: Item 4
1 card is from C. Fisk, Danville, Illinois, August 21, 1906
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Identifier: Item 5
1 card advertises Edmund Vance Cook
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Identifier: Item 6
Ten 8 x 10" head-and-shoulder and full-figure publicity photos of MBF.
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Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1906-1930
Nine 8 x 10" and six 5 x 7" photographs of MBF at the easel with illustrations from her programs.
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Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 8-panel, 8x11", published by Affiliated Lyceum Bureaus (Coit, White Entertainment, Mutual, Alkahest, Dixie, Ellison-White, and Coit-Alber)
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Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 6-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau; photos and copy different from above.
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Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 6-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau.
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Identifier: Item 3
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 4-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau, no sponsor listed, but art as above.
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Identifier: Item 4
Dates:
1906-1930
MBF promotional brochure, 6-panel, 8x11", Affiliated Lyceum Bureau, announcing MBF for the 1920-1921 season., 1920-1921
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Identifier: Item 5
Dates:
1920-1921
Lyceum Magazine, tearsheet with bylined article by MBF, Â"WonÂ't You Please Draw...?Â" on amusing suggestions she has received for illustrated lectures. April, 1923
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Identifier: Item 1
Dates:
1923
Lyceum Magazine, half-page ad for Swarthmore Chautauquas, Circuit C, including MBF. July, 1923
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Identifier: Item 2
Dates:
1923
Lyceum Magazine, one-third page ad featuring MBF exclusively. September, 1923
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Identifier: Item 3
Dates:
1923
Lyceum Magazine, news clip of an item contributed by MBF, "The Lecture That Scared Lloyd-George Away" on an interesting character she met who had a lecture "four feet long and 18 inches wide." April, 1925
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Identifier: Item 4
Dates:
1925
Illustrated program for the Swarthmore Chautauqua, September 13 to September 15. MBF is give a page.
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Identifier: Item 5
Dates:
1906-1930
Illustrated program for the Ellison-White Chautauqua, Bonner, October 5-10. MBF is given a page.
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Identifier: Item 6
Dates:
1906-1930