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
12021-03-31T06:33:15-07:00AnonymousBarnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth: Strange and savage tribes: A glimpse of the great menagerie tent, showing the loose led animals and grand ethnological congress.1Image of a tented circus arena with spectators viewing Asian and African performers who form the "Grand Ethnological Congress," with models of native housing structures and flags labeled "Sikhs" and "Singalese," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include elephants, camels, cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, horses, zebras, bison, and alpacas.meta2021-03-31T06:33:15-07:00Huntington Digital LibraryThe Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library1894Still imageAdvertising--CircusCircus performersEnglishThis work is in the public domain.Circus postersStrobridge Lithographing Company76.52 x 96.84 cmRebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249
