Browse Items (14 total)

107th edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Cirucs | Souvenir Program and Magazine

A photograph of Charles S. Stratton and Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump on or around the time of their wedding at Grace Church in New York City, February 10, 1853.

Illustrated pamphlet in printed red wrapper, written mostly in verse, and relating the doings of General Tom Thumb.

Also published as: The American General Tom Thumb [New York: C. P. Huestis, 1848]

Color lithograph poster with Kitty Clark and elephant.

Stereoview of Bangor, Maine. Posters for Lent's New York Circus and printing job office in foreground.

Stereo view shows a parade by Barnum's Circus in New York City. The costumed riders, two abreast, are heading south on Broadway. Taken before 1880 as traffic jams subsequently forced the annual parade to be held in the evening.

Circus annual with illustrations by Peter Arno. Cover depicts the "Ballet of the Elephants," which was a collaborative production by choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, and elephant boss Walter McClain. Arno working on the…

A program for a October 1879 performance of L. B. Lent's New York Circus at 728 & 730 Broadway featuring Pauline Lee, Emma Lake, Fred Aymar, and William Gorman.

A large-format photograph taken by Edward J. Kelty (1888-1967) of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performing at the Bronx Coliseum in March 1929.

A lively account of General Tom Thumb's world tour as seen through eyes of his manager Sylvester Bleeker.