Miscellaneous Circus Collection

(TC118)

Box/Folder Listing

Manuscripts Division
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library

Box/Folder Listing

Box/Folder Listing

Box	Folder	Title				Dates

			Series 1, General

1	1	Acrobats
		Acrobats (Photographs)
	3	Ames Circus Tragedy				1870
	4	Animal Acts (Photographs)
	5	Bands
	6	Bands (Photographs)
	7	Banner Line				1947
	8	"Bernard's Half Century Circus Reviews
			and Red Wagon Stories"			1930
	9	British Circus Ring Magazine			Oct 1947-Apr 1950
	10	Calliopes				May 1942
	11	Calliopes (Photographs)
	12	Cardiff Giant
	13	Circus Art
	14	Circus Parade				1967-1987
	15	Circus Pamphlets			1837, 1894, 1926
	16	"Circus Review"				1953-64
	17	Circus - Miscellaneous
	18	Circus - Miscellaneous (Photographs)
	19	Clowns				1877-1965
	20	Clowns (Photographs)
	21	Collecting/Collectors				1964
	22	Contracts				1919
	23	Elephants				1940-1959
	24	Elephants (Photographs)
	25	Equestrians
	26	Equestrians (Photographs)
	27	Exhibitions				1950
	28	Fires
	29	Hertzberg Circus Collection
	30	Hippodrome
	31	Indians/Native Americans (Photographs)
	32	Jumbo
	33	Midgets
	34	Midgets (Photographs)
	35	Menagerie

2	1	Miniature Circus
	2	Models
	3	Museum of the American Circus
	4	Parades (Photographs)
	5	Performers (Photographs)
	6	Performers - Unidentified (Photographs)
	7	Periodicals				1934, 1951
	8	Posters
	9	Siamese Twins
	10	Sideshows
	11	Sideshows (Photographs)
	12	Somers Historical Society/Elephant Hotel				1957-66
	13	"Tent Topics" Newsletter				1945
	14	Ticket Stubs
	15	"Today is Circus Day..."				1943-48
	16	Wagons
	17	Wagons (Photographs)

			Series 2, Organizations
				Subseries 1, Circus Fans Association

3	1	Constitution and By-laws				1952, 1956
	2	Fan-O-Grams				1944-49
	3-5	Membership Rosters				1940-1969
	6	Photographs
	7	Secretary/Treasury Reports				1942-1960
	8	Special Events, Meetings, etc.
	9	Miscellaneous

			Series 2, Organizations
				Subseries 2, Circus Historical Society

		Circus Historical Society:
	10		Conventions
	11		Membership Rosters and Elections
	12		Newsletters/Notesheets
	13		Photographs
	14		Miscellaneous
	15	Circus Saints and Sinners Club
	16	Circus World Museum
	17	Clown Club of America

			Series 2, Organizations
				Subseries 3, Trenton Clown Club

4	1	Clippings
		Correspondence
	2		General			1954-58
	3		Requests/Appearances			1953-58
	4		Unofficial			1953-58
	5	Greater Vallejo Recreation District				1953-57
	6	Functions/Special Events
	7	Photographs
	8	Pokey the Burro				1955-58

			Series 3, Performers

5	1	Aerial Fausts
	2	Amar Circus
	3	American Circus Corporation
	4	Andress, Charley (Photograph)
	5	Animals (Photographs)
	6	Antonio and Wilder
	7	Arlington and Beckman
	8	Arnold, Tom Circus
	9	Arthur Brothers Circus
	10-11	Bailey, James A.
	12	Barlay Circus
	13	Belle Vue Circus
	14-15	Barnes, Al G.
	16	Barnett Brothers
	17-19	Barnum and Bailey
	20	Batcheller and Doris' Great Railroad Show
	21-22	Beatty, Clyde
	23	Beatty, Clyde and Cole Brothers
	24	Benson's Wild Animal Farm
	25	Bibi Fricotin
	26	Biller Brothers
	27	Bostock, Frank
	28	Bowdish Stock Company (Photographs)
	29	Bozo the Clown
	30	Bradna, Fred
	31	Brinley's Miniature Circus
	32	Buffalo Bill

6	1-2	Buffalo Bill
	3	Bureau Cirques Francais
	4	Burns, Sidney
	5	Carson and Barnes
	6	Castello's Great Double Circus and Zoological Aggregation
	7	Chipperfield's Circus
	8	Christy Brothers
	9	Circo Atayde
	10	"Circus" (Project 20)
	11	Circus Bush
	12	Circus Supreme
	13	Circus Variety
	14	Cirkus Schumann
	15	Cirque d'etat de Moscow
	16	Cirque des Freres
	17	Cirque d'Hiver
	18	Cirque Napolean Rancy
	19	Clark, Ernestine
	20	Clifford, Mlle
	21	Codonas, The
	22-24	Cole Brothers
	25	Collins, Pete
	26	Concellos, Flying
	27	Concellos, Flying
	28	Conklin, Pete
	29	Continental Circus
	30	Cook Brothers
	31	Corey and Murray
	32	Cristiani Brothers

7	1	Cronin's Circus
	2	Dailey Brothers
	3	Davenport's European Circus
	4	Del Oro, Pinito
	5	Delvan, Wisconsin
	6	Diamond Dick
	7	Downie Brothers and Downie and Wheeler
	8	Emerson, George
	9	Fall of Babylon
	10	Fish, Charles W.
	11-13	Forepaugh, Adam
	14	Frensham Circus
	15	Gainesville (TX) Community Circus
	16	Garden Brothers Circus
	17	Gentry Brothers Circus
	18	Gilbert Brothers Combined Circus
	19-20	Gollmar Brothers
	21	Goodwin and Milo Brothers
	22	Gran Circo
	23	Great National Circus
	24	Great United Circus
	25	Greater European Olympia Circus
	26	Grock Circus
	27	Grotto Circus
	28	Haag Brothers Circus
	29	Hagen Brothers Circus
	30	Hagenbeck, Carl
	31-32	Hagenbeck and Wallace
	33	Hamid and Morton
	34	Hannaford, George
	35	Hargreaves, R.R. Show
	36	Harold Brothers Circus
	37	Harris Nickelplate Shows
	38	Hengler's Grand Cirque
	39	Herbert, Dorothy
	40	Hip, Hip Zoo Ray Circus
	41	Hoddy, Edwin
	42	Holland, George Edward
	43	Hollande, le Cirque National de
	44	Hoxle Brothers
	45-46	Hunt Brothers
	47	Hunting's New Railroad Show
	48-49	Jacobs, Terrell
	50	Johnson, Jason
	51	Kelly, Al G. and Miller Brothers
	52	Kelly, Emmett
	53	King Brothers and Cristiani Combined Circus
	54	Kinoshita Circus Show
	55	Kiralfy, Imre

8	1	Knie Menagerie
	2	Krone, Carl Circus
	3	La Tena's
	4	Lavrat
	5	Le Cirque dans L'univers
	6	Le Cirque Geant-Bouglione
	7	Leitzel, Lillian
	8	Lewis Brothers
	9	Macomber and Company
	10-11	Main, Walter L.
	12	McCoy, Tim Colonel
	13	Medrano
	14-17	Miller Brothers and the 101 Ranch
	18	Millettes, Flying
	19	Mills Circus
	20-21	Mix, Tom
	22	Moeller Brothers
	23	Monterrey Gran Circo
	24	Moscow Circus
	25	National Circus and Theatre
	26	Nelson, Ned
	27	New York Circus
	28	New York Hippodrome
	29	Norris and Rowe Show
	30	Oakley, Annie
	31	Parker and Watts
	32	Parkin, Stanley
	33-35	Pawnee Bill
	36	Pinder Circus
	37	Prince's International Circus

9	1	Polack Brothers Shrine Circus
	2	Popov, Oleg
	3	Quinett, Pop
	4	Radio Circus of Luxembourg
	5	Rancy, A.
	6	Reynolds, Robert
	7	Reynolds, WB Circus
	8	Richard Brothers
		Ringling Brothers
	9		Clippings
	10		Correspondence
	11		General
	12		Museums
	13		Pageants
	14		Photographs
	15-17		Programs			1920-1935

10	1-8		Programs			1936-1976

11	1		Programs			1982
	2		Promotional Books			n.d.
	3-4		Route Books			1894-1910
	5		Sheet Music			n.d.
	6		Tours			n.d.
	7		Weekly Circus Letters			Jun-Jul 1951
	8	Rivards Aerialists
	9-10	Robbins Brothers
	11-12	Robinson, John
	13	Roland Circus
	14	Ross, Don
	15-16	Russell Brothers Circus
	17	Sands, R. and Company
	18	Sariola Cirkus				1950
	19	Sarrasani
	20	Seils-Sterling
	21-22	Sells Floto
	23	Shipps and Feltus
	24-25	Showles, William
	26	Shrine Circus
	27	Shrode, William

12	1	Smarts, Billy
	2	Smith Circus
	3	Soviet Circus
	4-5	Spangles
	6-8	Sparks
	9	Saxon Brothers
	10	Sunbrock
	11	Tower Circus
	12	Trevor's Circus
	13-14	Tom Thumb
	15	Unus the Incredible
	16	Valentines Circus
	17	Van Tilburg and McReavy Circus
	18	Viohl Brothers Circus
	19	Voorheis Amusement Bar
	20	Wallace and Anderson Sheet Music
	21	Wallace, B.E.
	22	Walter, Frank
	23	Wardie-Jay Miniature Circus
	24	Washington Circus
	25	Welch Brothers
	26	Welsh Brothers
	27	Wetter, Albert M. Circus
	28	White Horse Troupe
	29	Williams Big Comedy Company
	30	Williams Circus
	31	Wirth Brothers Circus
	32	Yankee Robinson

			Series 4, Additions

13		Renton Circus Handbills. 7 folders each with about 20 or more bills for circuses, including a color-printed one for P. T. Barnum, dated 1874. Evidently part of the Renton accession (1947) described in: Marguerite McAneny "Renton Collection of Programs and Playbills," Princeton University Library Chronicle VIII:187-189 (June, 1947).
14		Renton Circus - Photos and Articles. 5 small parcels and 2 folders of bills, photographs, and other ephemera. Evidently part of the Renton accession (1947).

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