Acknowledgments

Touring West: 19th-century Performing Artists on the Overland Trails was curated by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg Curator of Exhibitions. It was developed by the staff of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts under Jacqueline Z. Davis, Executive Director. It was designed and installed by the Library's Shelby Cullom Davis Museum: Donald J. Vlack, Designer; Robert J. McGlynn, Brochure and Graphic Design; Anthony Walcott and Herbert Ruiz, Installers. We thank conservators Grace Owen and Myriam de Arteni for their work on this project. We thank also the chiefs and staff members of the research divisions and the circulating collections for their assistance and suggestions. We are also grateful to Alice Hudson, curator of Heading West, for her generous contributions to the project and to the members of the Exhibitions Program Office of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library and the Publications Office of The New York Public Library.

This exhibition was inspired by the pioneering research of Brooks McNamara, and his students, and of the late Lillian Moore, and her disciples, in aspects of American performance and popular entertainment of the 19th century.

The New York Public Library Administration:

Paul LeClerc, President

William D. Walker, Andrew W. Mellon Director of The Research Libraries

Heike Kordish, Deputy Director of the Research Libraries

Rodney Phillips, Director, Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Jacqueline Z. Davis, Director, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

H. George Fletcher, Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections

Shelby Cullom Davis Museum, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts:

Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg Curator: Barbara Cohen-Stratyner

Exhibition Designer: Donald J. Vlack

Graphics Designer: Robert J. McGlynn

Installation: Anthony Walcott, Herbert Ruiz

Jerome Robbins Dance Division Conservator: Grace Owen

Exhibitions Program Office, Humanities and Social Sciences Library:

Manager: Susan Rabbiner

Research Coordinators: Jeanne Bornstein, Meg Maher

Installation Coordinator: Russell Drisch

Exhibitions Conservator: Myriam de Arteni

Other NYPL staff:

Editor: Barbara Bergeron

Development: Catherine Carver Dunn, Susan Brady, Melissa Grundman

Public Relations: Herb Scher, Rima Corben

Public Programming:

Humanities and Social Sciences Library: Betsy Bradley, Rachel Natelson

Donnell Media Center: Marie Nesthus, Joseph Yranski

Volunteer Coordinator: Maura Muller

Digital Imaging: Anthony Troncale, Rona Chang, Robyn Mericle, Tim Russell

Website:

Site Coordination: Meg Maher

Site Design: Marc Blaustein

Web Site Production and Usability Testing: Future Phase Computer Systems

Additional Production Support: David Rosensweig, Jay Haque, Kathleen Kelly

Digital Recording of Audio: Adrian Cosentini