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
"Clown Alley" Collage
1media/acknowledgements_thumb.jpg2021-04-22T07:37:48-07:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382948Left: In this illustration for W. D. Coxey's quatrain "The Last of the Old Time Clowns," we are greeted by the sort of clown alley the narrator (a clown himself) gratefully sees before he dies. Right: Charlie Bell, the "world's greatest tumbler," carries on the tradition of the old time clowns in this 1953 portrait with his dog.plain2021-04-23T20:56:46-07:0019011953Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
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12021-02-27T18:17:33-08:00Acknowledgements52plain2024-05-30T08:45:30-07:00 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