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Title: Travelling circuses photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 104
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.92 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Date: 1960
Abstract: 228 original photographs (219 black-and-white and nine color) relating to traveling circuses at various locations in the United
States during the 1960 season.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research 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], Travelling circuses photograph album, PA Mss 104. Department of Special Research Collections, UC
Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2014.
The collection includes 228 original photographs (219 black-and-white and nine color) relating to traveling circuses at various
locations in the United States during the 1960 season. There are different encampments: Hunt Brothers Circus at West Palm
Beach, Florida; the A.L.G. Kelly and Miller Brothers Circus at Oakland, California; the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey
Combined Circus at Green Bay, Wisconsin, Santa Monica, California and Oakland, California; the Mexican circus Atayde Hermanos,
and the United States circus Duke of Paducah at as yet undetermined locations. Photographs depict circus trains, tents, ringtops,
trucks, wagons, floats, billboards, pictoral banners, animals (especially elephants and horses), and human performers in many
different costumes.
The album also includes documentary photographs, most affixed with photo-corners to the black-paper leaves. There are 60 distinct
pieces of circus printed ephemera, including 40 circus route cards, and an array of fliers, handbills, illustrated letterheads
with envelopes, a color lithograph of Clyde Beatty with tigers, and a Mexican broadside.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Circus -- United States -- Pictorial works
Beatty, Clyde -- Pictorial works