The National Vaudeville Artists Annual Benefit book is full of paid placements from individual artists, but cartoons and images designed to support the mission of the union itself. Full color photos of the luxuriously appointed NVA headquarters and cartoons showing the triumph of artist-manager teamwork over adversity all worked to provide assurances that Vaudeville was here to say. When this publication was released in the late 1920s, however, Vaudeville was on a swift downturn due to the popular demand for motion pictures.

(credit: American Theatre Architecture Archive, Theatre Historical Society of America)