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[identification of item], Chautauqua Collection, SPEC.TRI.WIC, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University
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This collection is unprocessed. Finding aid written by: Courtney Bishop, 2021 August
Chautauqua is a successor of the lyceum movement and is an adult education and social movement in the United States that started during the late 19th century as a program for training Sunday-school teachers and other church workers. Chautauquas eventually had less religious programming and began to include adult education in the form of lectures, recreation, and popular entertainment including cartooning, comedy, magic, songs, dance, ventriloquism, and hypnotism. Independent chautauquas are performed in permanent structures whereas circuit or tent chautauquas are performed in tents due to their traveling nature. Chautauquas also include speakers, preachers, speeches, and inspirational talks. As of 2021, there are still some chautauquas in operation.
The Windsor Indoor Chautauqua of Marietta, Ohio, was a traveling show starring magician and entertainer Tommy Windsor and his wife, singer and dancer Jeanne Windsor.
The Chautauqua Collection contains broadsides, correspondence (mostly testimonial letters), clippings, press releases, advertisements, photographs, sheet music, song lyrics, jokes, scripts, and programs for chautauqua productions and educational programming for the Windsor Indoor Chautauqua, the Redpath Chautauqua, and lyceums. Materials are dated 1920s-1930s and 1960.