You Never Can Tell: Musical Revue Research Guide, Part 1
Visitors to the exhibition and blog channel The Great American Revue have peppered me with questions that can be summarized as: "where do you find that stuff?" Substitute artifacts for "stuff" and it becomes a request for a research guide. The New York Public Library has been collecting performing arts content since the 1880s and online cataloging since the 1980s. Most of the material in the Rev…