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Advertisements for intersex circus performers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2310
Overview:

Pamphlets and advertisements for intersex circus performers between 1920-1940.

Barnum's Circus "Sacred Elephant" die cuts

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2021
Overview:

Die cut illustrations of Barnum's Circus "sacred white elephant".

Broadsides and playbills from the collection of Ricky Jay

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2171
Overview:

Broadsides and playbills from the collection of American magician, actor, and writer, Ricky Jay.

Charles Geer illustrations for Bianca Bradbury's Circus punk

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1286
Overview:

Drawings for illustrations of the children's book, Circus Punk, by Charles Geer.

Collection of Bernard Kobel circus sideshow photographs with catalog

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2309
Overview:

Photographs of circus sideshow performers, performers with disabilities and animals with unusual physical features, as well as a catalog of mail-order photographs of people with disabilities and unusual animals.

Conn Baker professional cycling papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2204
Overview:

Professional papers of American bicycle racer and stunt performer, Conn Baker.

Harvard Theatre Collection clippings on circus acts and Shakespeare

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2006MT-43
Scope and Contents:

Includes material on circus acts, Ringling Circus, and Shakespeare.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music by topic

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: TCS 90
Overview:

Includes printed sheet music, many with illustrated covers, organized by topic.

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.

Photograph albums of Charles Sherwood Stratton ("General Tom Thumb"), Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton, and others

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Thr 2270
Overview:

Three photographic albums depicting various well-known 19th century entertainers with dwarfism.

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