UI Libraries has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve, digitize, and provide access to our Keith/Albee Vaudeville Theater Collection!
We are pleased to announce that the UI Libraries has received a National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) $300,000 grant award for a three-year preservation and access project to provide conservation treatment and to digitize 150 oversize scrapbooks in the Keith/Albee Vaudeville Theater Collection. Since its acquisition in 1976, the Keith/Albee Vaudeville Theater Collection has remained one of the most comprehensive, and most frequently accessed, vaudeville archives in the country. Due to heavy use more than 60 percent of the scrapbooks have incurred damage. The Keith/Albee collection is one of several collections related to vaudeville, the performing arts, and early film held by the University of Iowa Libraries, and this grant will allow us to bring these materials to a much wider audience through digitization and transcription, while protecting the originals by scanning and repairing the volumes.
Click here to read all about the collection: ”The Keith/Albee Collection: The Vaudeville Industry, 1894-1935. by M. ALISON KIBLER From Books at Iowa 56 (April 1992)
And Click Here to access the finding aid.