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Harvard Theatre Collection popular entertainment playbills, posters, prints, and clippings
FOUND IN:
Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1835
Overview:
Contains depictions of popular entertainment including circuses, equestrian and acrobatic acts, automata, processions, pageants, tableaux, puppetry, commedia dell'arte, Harlequinade and pantomime, and burlesque performances, including advertisements, playbills, posters, programs, printed illustrations, and newspaper clippings.
Inez Mecusker family papers
FOUND IN:
Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-217
Summary:
Consists of pocket diaries from 1921, 1922, and 1925; photographs; circus posters; and personal correspondence. Includes correspondence of Mecusker's brother-in-law Charles M. Belknap and niece Berenice H. Belknap, who both resided with Mecusker in the 1920s, as well as letters addressed to her mother Clementine Lord, and an 1894 diary apparently by Clementine Lord.
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Creator
- Astley's Amphitheatre 1
- Barnum and Bailey 1
- Belknap, Berenice H. 1
- Belknap, Charles M. 1
- Harvard Theatre Collection 1
- Lord, Clementine 1
- Mecusker, Inez, 1855-1941. 1
- Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows 1 ∧ less
- Subject
- Acrobatics 1
- Acrobats 1
- Blackface minstrelsy 1
- Circus 1
- Circus animals 1
- Circus animals in art 1
- Commedia dell'arte 1
- Corry (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Diaries -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century. 1
- Diorama 1
- Freak shows -- United States -- History 1
- Medicine shows 1
- Menageries 1
- Pageants 1
- Pantomime 1
- People with disabilities and the performing arts 1
- Processions 1
- Robots 1
- Sideshows 1
- Tableaux 1
- Wild west shows 1
- Women circus performers in art 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Harvard Theatre Collection 1
- Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows 1
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