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 chapterAcknowledgementsAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
Circus broadcasted by radio for first time
12021-02-27T18:23:55-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382941Photograph shows Dolly, a two year old elephant, rehearsing her "song" before the microphone in Madison Square Garden for the broadcasting of the Big Circus (Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey) to be sent out by WJZ; a man watches the elephant as a radio engineer operates the radio controls.plain2021-02-27T18:23:55-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
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12021-02-27T18:17:33-08:00Acknowledgements2plain2021-02-27T18:25:39-08:00This research was possible because of the circus work done by marginalized groups on stolen lands.
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?
