Finding Aides & Resources

Finding Aides

Tibbals Circus Collection of Buster Bailey Films, 1937-1984

Tibbals Circus Collection Booklet Inventory, 1764-1999

Tibbals Circus Collection of Tickets, Passes, and Coupons, 1840-1999

Tibbals Circus Collection of Samuel Franklin Cody Papers, 1895-1912

Stuart Thayer Manuscript Collection, 1793-1918

Tibbals Circus Collection of Greeting Cards, 1868-1998 and undated

Baliot Collection, 1902-1997

Karl A. Bickel Correspondence, 1923-1961

Eleanor Merritt Darlington Collection, 1950-2019

Tibbals Circus Collection of P.T. Barnum Papers, 1850-1891

Records of A. Everett Austin, Director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1946-1957

Records of J. W. Blanding, Business Manager of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1935-1956

Otto Rice Collection of Robert and Anna Reynolds and Leif Osmundsen Photographs and Printed Materials, 1915-1985

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art State of Florida Board of Control Records, 1946-1958

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

Tibbals Circus Collection of Folded Sheets, 20th -21st century

Tibbals Circus Collection of Songsters, 1810-1948

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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

https://visit.circushalloffame.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