American Vaudeville Museum

The American Vaudeville Museum (AVM) was a vaudeville history and memorabilia museum in Edgewood, New Mexico which moved its collection to the University of Arizona and online.

Portrait of Mayme Gehrue from 1909
May Boley in the musical The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl
Sarony portrait of Ethel Levey

The museum was founded by Frank Cullen and Donald McNeilly.[1] The museum posted historic content online and published Vaudeville Times magazine quarterly from 1998 to 2008[2][3] Its virtual museum included a bibliography of sources and an index of vaudevillians.[4] The museum was founded in 1986.[5]

References
  1. "American Vaudeville Museum Collection | Special Collections". speccoll.library.arizona.edu.
  2. "link we like: American Vaudeville Museum". July 2, 2011.
  3. Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (January 29, 2007). Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415938532 – via Google Books.
  4. Everett, William (2011). The Musical: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. ISBN 9781135848071 – via Google Books.
  5. "Vaudeville Times". American Museum of Vaudeville. January 29, 2004 – via Google Books.
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