Acknowledgements
This research was made possible with the guidance of Principal Investigator Angela Yon at Illinois State University (ISU) and funding from a CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) grant project with collaborating institutions the Circus World Museum, and The Ringling Archives. The project, Step Right Up: Digitizing Over 100 Years of Circus Route Books, digitizes and makes accessible over 300 of the 400 known distinct route books in existence.
The end. Dolly waves you goodbye. Or is she heralding the end of the golden age of the circus as new media technologies enthrall America?
