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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.

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.

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.