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Sakura Dōshi Kuni Masashi
Fukuda Kumajirō
Fillette, T. G. Lieutenant
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undated
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1 Sheet (37 x 72 cm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7433
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National Anthropological Archives
Shows the arena with spectators on tiers of seats and various acts and feats in the ring. A narrative caption text in Japanese accounts the success of the Charine circus troop's Japanese debut in 1886and its continuing popularity.
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Glen Fishback Papers and Photographs
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Fishback, Glen Curtis, 1912-1976
Glen Fishback School of Photography.
White, Judy
Ansco.
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1930-1976
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27 Cubic feet (101 boxes, 6 map-folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0714
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Original photographic negatives, prints (black-and-white and color), and color slides and transparencies by Fishback, reflecting his career in advertising, calendar, and editorial photography; drafts of articles and correspondence by Fishback (typescripts), and incoming correspondence; copies of publications, such as magazines and annual reports, w...
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Stanley, Pete, 1940-
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1961-1962
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1 Item
- Collection ID:
- AAA.stanpete
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Archives of American Art
A diary kept by Pete Stanley primarily about a trip that he took by horse-drawn carriage with Mimi Gross, Red Grooms, Katharine Kean (known as KK), and Nello Falteri (known as Paperino) from Florence to Venice, Italy and back performing shadow puppet shows as Il Piccolo Circo d'Ombra di Firenze (the Little Shadow Circus from Florence). The diary in...
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Japan Ueda Performing Arts Company
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1920s
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1 Sheet (79 cm x 108 cm)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7166
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National Anthropological Archives
Shows sketches of a variety of circus acts and includes a photomechanical portrait of Ueda, perhaps the head of the circus company.
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Rogala, Dawn V.
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1990-2015
bulk 1992-1999
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4 Cubic feet (12 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1427
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection, compiled and photographed by Dawn Rogala, documents daily life in traveling, tented circuses in America, including: Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers, Circus Vargas, Sterling & Reid Brothers, Culpepper and Merriweather, Carson and Barnes, Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus, Big Apple Circus, Carson and Barnes Circus, Culpepper and Merriweather Circ...
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Newell, Louis Belmont
Kenjockety, Frank
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1886-1940
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2 Linear feet
39 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.025
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Frank Kenjockety and Louis B. Newell Native American Entertainers collection includes ephemera, documents and photographs from two prominent Native American [entertainers] Frank Kenjockety (Cayuga), also known as "Chief Strong Fox" and Louis Belmont Newell, also known as "Rolling Thunder". Kenjockety's collection contains photographs, ephemera and a small amount of personal records from his career as a circus troupe leader and lecturer from 1909-1940. Newell's collection contains ephemera from his career as a traveling Medicine Man and entertainer including remedy and ointment packaging as well as broadsides and flyers.
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bulk 1925
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0.05 Cubic feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2010.0014
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of one eight by ten inch black and white photograph of Charles Lindbergh in the Mil-Hi Airways Lincoln (Aircraft) Standard J-1; a small certificate agreement between The Mil-Hi Airways and Flying Circus of Denver, Colorado, and W.P. Johnson, stating that Johnson flew in an aircraft on 9/5/1925 with Charles Lindbergh; a blur...
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Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
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1866-1890
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0.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0068
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of five children's books about the circus, a brochure announcing the show in London, an 1873 advertisement for the Great Traveling World's Fair of Barnum's, and two scrapbooks.
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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undated
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1.1 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 folder, 6 oversize folders, 3 map case folders.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Circus
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Circus forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
- Dates:
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1911
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box, 345 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0335
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Some of the 345 silver gelatin photoprints, mounted on gray paper pages in this album, apparently were taken in Houston, as the title page indicates. However, many others were taken in New Orleans, and possibly other areas in the Gulf States. The New Orleans pictures depict City Park, St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, above ground cemeteries, the...
