The digital collection Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century comprises 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and flyers for 4,545 lecturers, teachers, preachers, statesmen and politicians, actors, singers and opera stars, glee clubs and concert companies, magicians, whistlers and other performers who traveled the circuits at the beginning of the 20th century. The brochures are drawn from the Redpath Chautauqua Collection, which is housed at the University of Iowa Libraries.
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The digitization and presentation of these materials by the University of Iowa Libraries was supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. The digital reproductions of the materials are also mounted at the awardee institution.
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