The American circus / Susan Weber, Kenneth L. Ames, and Matthew Wittmann, editors
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Object Details
- editor of compilation
- Weber, Susan 1954-
- Contents
- Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames -- The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis -- The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann -- The American circus in Victorian Britain / Brenda Assael -- American circus posters / Paul Stirton -- Shelburne Museum's Colchester posters and circus advertising / Kory W. Rogers -- The circus parade / Gregory J. Renoff -- Circus music in America / Leon Botstein -- The American circus tent / Fred Dahlinger, Jr. -- Elephants and the American circus / Susan Nance -- Horses and cat acts in the early American circus / Brett Mizelle -- Performed identities as circus illusions / Peter Tait -- The Americanization of the circus clown / Rodney Huey -- The American circus spectacle / Jennifer Lemmer Posey -- The circus in nineteenth-century American children's literature / Ellen Butler Donovan -- Circus toys in the gilded age / Eugene W. Metcalf -- The WPA circus in New York / Susan Weber -- Disability and the circus / Rachel Adams
- 2012
- Type
- Books
- Physical description
- 459 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Place
- United States
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Circus
- Record ID
- siris_sil_1018740
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0