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
1media/default-2 copy_thumb.jpg2021-04-08T08:18:48-07:00Rebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249Statistics of P.T. Barnum's Great Traveling Exposition and World's Fair for the Season of 18733Cover and interior pages showing a poem that mentions "Fiji cannibals" as part of the 1873 season acts.media/default-2 copy.jpgmeta2021-04-08T08:29:41-07:00Circus World Museum (Baraboo, Wis.)Circus Route Books1873TextCircus performersEnglishThis work is in the public domain.42 p.; 14.2 x 9 cmRebecca Fitzsimmons776fc8f5a4c40ba6b2ce5ef275d03821c12e0249