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Acrobats

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Cabinet photographs of contortionist Belle Birbeck

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume 1Identifier: MS Thr 2084
Overview:

Photographs of contortionist Belle Birbeck.

Collection relating to the career of Jacqueline Joyce Monear

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2170
Overview:

Photographs and ephemera documenting the performance career of contortionist Jacqueline Joyce Monear.

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.