Acknowledgements
The exhibit has the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from a grant administered by the Council of Library & Information Resources (CLIR), without which none of our work could have gone forward. The project Step Right Up: Digitizing Over 100 Years of Circus Route Books was awarded funding from CLIR in 2017.
We thank Pete Shrake at Circus World; Maureen Brunsdale and Dallas Long (Principal Investigator 2017-2020) at Illinois State University; and Heidi Connor, Ron Levere, and Deborah Walk at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art for conceiving and organizing the project and for making the circus route books available for digitization.
Our exhibit, like most digital humanities projects, is a result of collaboration between faculty and both library and technical staff at Illinois State University. We thank Eric Willey (Associate Professor, Special Collections and Formats Cataloger), Rebecca Fitzsimmons (Assistant Professor, Special Collections Librarian), Karmine Beecroft (Digitization Coordinator), Pete Steadman (Metadata & Serials Coordinator), and Milner Library’s Information Technology department.
The exhibit was possible because of the circus work accomplished by disenfranchised people on stolen lands.
EXHIBIT PROJECT TEAM
Angela Yon - Principal Investigator (2020-2021); Assistant Professor, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian at Illinois State University
Elizabeth Harman - Digital Imaging Specialist; holds a BA in photography and graphic design from Olivet Nazarene University
Elizabeth C. Hartman - Digital Project and Metadata Research Specialist; holds a MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Certified Archivist
Mariah Wahl - Digital Project and Metadata Research Specialist; holds a MSIS and MA in English from the University of Texas at Austin
For more information about the exhibit, please contact circusportraits@ilstu.edu.
