History of Entertainment & Leisure

Entertainment-related sites linked to information about the past.

Resources in this category:

Bad Fads
http://www.badfads.com/

This site describes popular fads of the past and present in fashion, collectibles, activities, and events.

Classic Movies
http://www.classicmovies.org/

Links to information about classic films from About.com.

The Colonial Music Institute
http://www.colonialmusic.org/

A source for a variety of resources related to American colonial music including instructions on how to dance a Country Dance, a Minuet, a Cotillion, or a Reel. Essays about American colonial music are also featured.

Early Comic Strips, 1898-1916
http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/earlycomicstrips

Made available by Duke University, this online exhibit of early "funnies" includes "comic strips that figured in the bitter rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst for supremacy in the New York newspaper market of the early 20th century." The comic strips in the exhibit were reproduced from bound volumes of newspapers in Duke's American Newspaper Repository. Most cartoons are copied from The World and The Chicago Tribune.

Houdini in The New York Times
http://www.houdinimuseum.org/

Compiled by Pittsburgh magician Tom Interval, this Web site is a free resource for Houdini enthusiasts and researchers who might not otherwise have access to the hundreds of Houdini articles, features, and letters that appeared in The New York Times from 1910 to 1943.

The Sports Page
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/mainFrame/collections/guides/kmast/

"The Keystone-Mast Collection, preserved at UCR California Museum of Photography, holds a vast resource of stereoscopic images made all over the world in the decades around the turn of the century. Among its many treasures are images depicting the exhilarating world of sports."

Worlds Intertwined: The Etruscan World
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/worlds_intertwined/etruscan/...

Provides an introduction to the Etruscan artifacts collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Includes a brief historical overview of the pre-Roman civilization.