This Virtual Medicine Show was produced by Jonathan Lillie, Bill Bean, and Scott Maier.


The show is co-sponored by Paul Jones and the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Special thanks go to Michael Taft and Jill Rostier of the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Sources Include:

Brooks McNamara, STEP RIGHT UP, Garden City: Doubleday, 1976, Revised 1995.

The American Place Theater, The Vi-Ton-ka Medicine Show, program notes, 1983.

David Armstrong and Elizabeth Metzger Armstrong, THE GREAT AMERICAN MEDICINE SHOW: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangilists and heros from Plymouth Rock to present. Prentice Hall, 1991.

N.T. Oliver and Wesley Stout, Alagazam: The Story of Pitchman High and Low, The Saturday Evening Post, 19 October 1929.

The National Institute of Medicine, Here Today, Here Tomorrow: The Medicine Show Images at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/ephemera/medshow.html

Tapes, video, sound etc.

supplied by - Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Other resources

Film:

Born for Hard Luck, a portrait in film of the black medicine show performer Peg leg Sam Jaackson. Distributed by Tom Davenport Films.

Music:

Pink Anderson,Volume 2: Medicine Show Man. Prestige-Bluesville 1051. Flyrights Last Medicine Show, the only extant live recording of a med show.

Tommy Scotts Orginal Georgia Peanut Band at the Medicine Show. Concorde 005.

Peg Leg Sam, Medicine Show Man. Trix 3302.
Charlie Monroes Kentucky Partners, Noonday Jamboree. County 538.