Scope and arrangement
The Hillman family papers provide documentation on the performance careers of four members of this family. Included are a notebook containing George A. Hillman's monologues and news clippings discussing the vaudeville performances of George and his wife, Ethel Riddick Hillman, and scrapbooks of news clippings and programs illustrating the tap dancing careers of their sons, George I. and Christopher Hillman, known as the Hillman Brothers, (1930s-1940s). Another scrapbook provides information about George I. Hillman's performance in Curley McDimple (1968).
Additional files about George I. Hillman include printed material concerning high school athletic participation in the 1920s; programs; flyers; news clippings relating to the Off-Broadway shows Curley McDimple and 1000 Years of Jazz; contracts (1970s); and memorial programs relating to the death of the two brothers.