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Title: Kenneth Barr, Sr., circus collection
Dates: 1930-2005
Collection number: PA Mss 90
Creator:
Barr, Kenneth Sr.
Collection Size:
4 linear feet
(4 document boxes and three flat boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Programs, clippings, posters, flyers and ephemera relating to the circus.
Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Use of the collection is unrestricted.
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.
Kenneth Barr, Sr., circus collection. PA Mss 90, Department of Special Collections, University Libraries, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Gift of Kenneth Barr, Sr.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Mills Bros. Circus
Circus--United States
Clippings
Posters
Souvenir programs