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Circus History

Bandwagon Honors Circus Historians

People - Staff, performers

Olympians of the Sawdust Circle,
Slout's biographical dictionary, 19th century circus.

Biographies
New York Clipper, Billboard and newspapers.

Circuses & Wild West Shows, rosters 1900

Circuses & Wild West Shows, rosters 1909

List of Performers 1910

Circuses & Wild West Shows, rosters 1912

Circuses & Wild West Shows, rosters 1913

Circuses & Wild West Shows, rosters 1914

Circuses & Wild West Shows, rosters 1917

Census & Directories

Circuses

Sturtevant's List of Circuses, 1724-1952.

Circuses, 1836-1940s
brief information on some circuses.

Circus Winter Quarters, locations, early 1900s.

LaTena's 1917,
Official Route Book with staff and performers, route.

Al G. Barnes, 1914, 1915, 1922
Official Route Book with staff and performers, route.

Great Pan-American Shows, 1903,
Official Route Book with staff and performers,
detailed day-by-day route.

Ringling Bros., 1890-1903
Official Route Books with staff and performers,
detailed day-by-day routes.

Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, 1941-1951
Official Route Books with staff and performers.

                                            Articles, Books

American Circus Anthology,
Stuart Thayer's Essays of the Early Years

Circus Life and Circus Celebrities (1700s-1880)

History of the American Stage (1733-1870)

Reminiscences of a Circus (1810)

A Clown's Log, part one (circa 1840)

A Clown's Log, part two (circa 1840)

Burnt Cork and Tambourines (1800s)
Slout's Directory of American Minstrelsy

Sale of a Menagerie (1854)

History of the Amphitheatre and Circus (1861)

The Hippotheatron (1864-1872)

Ins and Outs of Circus Life (1835-1877)

On the Road With a Wagon Show (1835-1888)

Stranger Than Fiction (1860s-1919).

Life in a Circus (1870s)

Circus Memoirs (1870-1880s)

One Day's Route With a Circus (1873)

Circus Reminiscences of "Long Ago" (1877)

Tented Arena of the Olden Time (1878)

Circus in the Days of Old (1800s)

Ink From A Circus Press Agent (1860s to 1907)

Reminiscences of a Showman (1870s to 1900s)

Leavitt's Fifty Years in Theatrical Management (1860s to ca 1910)

A Spangled World (1800s)

Striking the Circus Tent (1882)

Circus Reformation (1884)

A Circus Contortionist (1886)

How the Circus is Put Up and Taken Down (1895)

On the Road with a Circus (early 1900s)

Setting Up the Tent (1919)

Tom Sandow's Life Diary (1940s, England)

Circus Scrap Book Index and online articles from this serial publication 1929-32. Original articles, reprints from newspapers and magazines.

Circusiana, Articles by A. Morton Smith, published in Hobbies between 1944 and 1950.

Many early Bandwagon circus history articles are now online. Click on Bandwagon on the sidebar, check the Bandwagon indexes 1940 to 1965, as well as a number of articles 1966-1974+.

Excerpts from the New York Clipper 1860s   1870-71   1872-73   1874-76    1877-79   1880-1891

The Circus Historical Society does not guarantee the accuracy of information contained in the information in these online articles, books, etc. Information should always be checked with additional sources.

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