People with disabilities and the performing arts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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.