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Books:

Adams, Bluford. E pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. GV1811 .B3 A525 1997.

Adams, Rachel. Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. GV1835 .A33 2001.

Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. GV1835. B64 1988.

Davis, Janet M. The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. GV 1803.D38 2002.

Frega, Donnalee. Women of Illusion: A Circus Family's Story. New York: Palgrave, 2001. GV1811 .A1 F74 2001.

Hartzman, Marc. American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005. GV1803 .H37 2005.

Poignant, Roslyn. Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. GN666 .P55 2004.

Tait, Peta. Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. Abingdon, England; New York: Routledge, 2005. GV552 .T34 2005.

Other manuscript and archival holdings:

Alliance Library System, Illinois Women in the Arts and Entertainment.

Syracuse University Digital Projects, The Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs.

The Newberry Library, Chicago, American Circus Collection, 1891-1939.

Princeton University Library, Circus Posters.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Circus World Museum poster collection, route book collection, 1841-[ongoing].

 

 

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