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PA Mss 90
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Title: Kenneth Barr, Sr., circus collection
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 90
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4.42 linear feet
(4 document boxes, 3 flat oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1930-2005
Creator:
Barr, Kenneth, Sr.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Kenneth Barr, Sr., circus collection, PA Mss 90. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Programs, clippings, posters, flyers and ephemera relating to the circus in the United States. Items include circus route
books and souvenir programs from the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus, Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus, and Mills
Brothers Circus, among others, dating from the 1930s and 1940s.
The collection has been divided into the following series: I. Programs, Guides, Clippings, and II. Oversize and Circus Ephemera.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Mills Bros. Circus
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Circus--United States
Clippings (information artifacts)
Posters
Souvenir programs