Scope and arrangement
The collection (1905-1949) documents the careers of Peggy Hoover and Buddy Doyle through scrapbooks, photographs, and sheet music. The two scrapbooks, one for Hoover and one for Doyle, largely contain newspaper clippings. Hoover's scrapbook documents her career as a vaudeville performer from her first Gus Edwards revue in her hometown of Denver, Colorado until the 1940s when she became more involved with melodrama as a member of the Riverside Community Players in Riverside, California. Doyle's scrapbook documents his well-received film performance as Eddie Cantor in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), as a fill-in for Henry Williams in Whoopee (1928), and his work as a comedian and singer for vaudeville and radio shows.
Photographs in the collection primarily consist of headshots and staged group photographs of Hoover from the 1920s. Several of the images feature her posed in her dance costumes. Productions pictured include the Broadway show Hello, Yourself (1928) and the film Follow Your Heart (1936). Photographs of Doyle primarily consist of publicity headshots of him in blackface for the Broadway Production Whoopee (1928). Production stills featuring Doyle in short films, such as Lalapaloosa (1936), are also here.
The sheet music consists of music from shows Hoover and Doyle performed in including vaudeville acts by Bobby Sanford, Gus Edwards, and Billy Rose. Also present is a score written and composed by Buddy Doyle and Gene Austin entitled All That You Left Me Were Two Empty Arms (1926). Some of the sheet music is autographed with notes to Hoover.
The collection holds electronic records. They consist of scanned images of most of the photographs in the collection and the entire Buddy Doyle scrapbook. Materials were scanned in 2006.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into three categories: Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Sheet Music.