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Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuIntroductionIntroduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content.The American Experiment: Circus in ContextCircus performers and American history timelineRouting the Circus: The Things They CarriedCircus Routes Map, 1875-1925Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacleby Rebecca FitzsimmonsOutsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performersby Angela Yon and Mariah WahlShattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circusby Elizabeth HarmanSide Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to ExoticismAnnexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. HartmanNative Performance and Identity in The Wild West Showby Mariah WahlShowmen's Rests: The Final CurtainCircus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. HartmanList of PerformersPerformers covered in this exhibitBibliography & Further ReadingsBibliography and readings for each chapterAcknowledgementsCreative Commons LicenseAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
William Henry Johnson
12021-03-30T23:23:18-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249382942plain2021-03-30T23:28:57-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249William Henry Johnson, who went by the performer name “Zip, the What-Is-It” began his sideshow career with P.T. Barnum in the 1860s.
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12021-03-30T16:11:48-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249Congress of Freaks at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey (Combined) Circus, 19244Publicity photograph showing sideshow performers on the Barnum and Bailey Circus. William Henry Johnson, "Zip, the What-Is-It" is visible in the top row holding a violin.meta2021-04-01T15:14:58-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249
