Search Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, with the gallica CLI. Use it for French-language newspapers, periodicals and books, and for the French and European press reports about performers who travelled.
Search ANNO (AustriaN Newspapers Online), the historical newspaper archive of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, with the anno CLI. Use it for the German-language Austrian and Central European press — Vienna above all — and for the Austro-Hungarian reports about performers who travelled.
Search the Deutsches Zeitungsportal (Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek) with the ddb CLI. Use it for German-language newspapers from 1850 to 1950 — the German press coverage of performers on tour, and all material published in Germany.
Search the Library of Congress with the locgov CLI — American newspapers from 1736 to 1963 in more than twelve languages, plus digitised books and manuscripts, all with page-level full text through one API. Use it for the American reception of a performer, the foreign-language immigrant press, and the conjuring…
Search the Swiss and Luxembourgish historical press with the impresso CLI — 1738 to 2018, in German, French, Luxembourgish and Italian, at article level, with inline snippets. Use it for the German-language Continental press, for Luxembourg, and for any question that needs a full transcript of material that is still…
Search the entertainment trade press with the lantern CLI — Variety, Billboard, the New York Clipper and Motion Picture Herald, at page level, with inline snippets and no key. Use it for bookings, routes, salaries, reviews and obituaries of stage acts, and for all questions about how the business that employed a…