urn:taro:utexas.cah.001332 A Guide to the Bailey Brothers Circus Photographs, ca. 1921-1936 Original EAD encoding by Linda Peterson according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. October 2009 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Bailey Brothers Circus Bailey Brothers Circus Photographs ca. 1921-1936 Materials are written in English. 93-415 2 inches, 151 photoprints Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin A business card from Bailey Brothers Circus indicates that the photographs in this album may have been taken by someone from that circus. Photographs are of various circuses in Pennsylvania and Maryland ca. 1921-1936. Scope and Contents

A business card from Bailey Brothers Circus indicates that the photographs in this album may have been taken by someone from that circus. Photographs are of the Barnett Brothers Circus, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, Walter L. Main Circus, Cole Brothers Clyde Beatty Circus, Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, Downie Brothers Circus, and Sells-Floto Circus. Among the many circus scenes are those with elephants, clowns, sideshows, zebras, horses and camels in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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 Index Terms Subjects Camels Circuses Clowns Elephants Horses Sideshows Zebras Preferred Citation

Bailey Brothers Circus Photographs, ca. 1921-1936, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 3S2.1 Photographs