Finding Aides & Resources

Finding Aides

The Tibbals Buster Bailey Film Collection

Lillian Leitzel Photo Album

Tibbals' Booklet Inventory

Howard Tibbals’ Samuel Franklin Cody Papers

Tibbals Collection of Tickets and Passes

Howard Tibbals Gibbs Company Collection

Stuart Thayer Manuscript Collection, 1793-1918

Tibbals Collection, Louis E. Cooke Manuscript Collection: Cooke - Cody Correspondence

Index to the Route Book Collection, 1842-2002

Howard Tibbals Greeting Card Collection, 1850's-1998

Howard Tibbals Collection of Allen J. Lester Papers , 1925-1955

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Circus, Wild West shows and Allied Arts Resources

American Antiquarian Society 

185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609-1634 |

https://americanantiquarian.org

 

The Barnum Museum

800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604

http://barnum-museum.org

 

Billboard Magazine Archives

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Billboard-Magazine.htm

 

Bridgeport Public Library

925 Broad Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604

http://bportlibrary.org

 

Circus Arts Research Platform

https://circusartsresearchplatform.com/librairies-archives/

 

Circus City Festival Museum

154 North Broadway, Peru IN 46970

http://www.peruamateurcircus.com

 

The Circus Diaries: circus thoughts from circus people

https://thecircusdiaries.com

 

Circus Route Books

https://library.illinoisstate.edu/collections/circus-route-books/

 

Circus World Museum

426 Water Street, Baraboo, WI 53913-2597

http://www.circusworldbaraboo.org

 

European Network Circus and Street Arts

http://circostrada.org

 

Harvard University Library Theatre Collection

Cambridge, MA 02138

https://library.harvard.edu/collections/harvard-theatre-collection

 

Hertzberg Circus Collection at the Witte Museum

3801 Broadway Brackenridge Park, Texas

https://www.wittemuseum.org/archives/ 

 

Illinois State University Milner Library

Normal, IL 61761-0900

https://library.illinoisstate.edu/collections/circus-and-allied-arts/

 

International Circus Hall of Fame

Post Office Box 700, Peru, IN 46970

http://circushof.com

 

John Daniel Draper Equestrian database

http://savinrock.com/ringlingcircus/equestrian/

 

New York Historical Society

170 Central Park West,

New York, NY 10024

http://nyhistory.org

 

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Billy Rose Theatre Division

40 Lincoln Center Plaza

New York, NY 10023-7498

http://www.nypl.org

 

Princeton University Library Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections

1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544

https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/circus/TC093.html

 

Sauk County Historical Society

531 Fourth Avenue, Baraboo, WI 53913

http://saukcountyhistory.org

 

Shelburne Museum

US Route 7, Shelburne, VT 05482

http://shelburnemuseum.org

 

University of Memphis Ned R. McWherter Library

Dyer Marion “Ichabod” Reynolds Circus Collection and Tony Conway Circus Collection

Memphis, TN 38152

http://umwa.memphis.edu/campusmap/deptsbldg.php?Building_Id=55&Dept_Id=755