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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1980
- used date
- 1980-03-29
- Associated Name
- Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
- ID Number
- 1981.0768.03b
- accession number
- 1981.0768
- catalog number
- 1981.0768.03b
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1980
- depicted (sitter)
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.16
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.16
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1906 - 1907
- ID Number
- 1986.0103.01
- accession number
- 1986.0103
- catalog number
- 1986.0103.01
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1979
- depicted (sitter)
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.15
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.15
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- Description (Brief)
- One of a set of 72 trading card featuring Superman, included in packages of Gum Inc.’s “Superman Bubble Gum” in 1940. Each “adventure story” card features an image of Superman on the front with a connected story on the back. The cards are one of the earliest examples of merchandise featuring the iconic superhero.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1940
- maker
- Gum, Inc.
- copyright holder
- Superman, Inc.
- associated institution
- Superman of America Club
- maker
- Gum, Inc.
- Superman, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1987.0213.089
- accession number
- 1987.0213
- catalog number
- 1987.0213.089
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- Description (Brief)
- Albumen cabinet card portrait of a woman with albinism. The woman is extremely pale, with very curly shoulder-length white hair. She is wearing a velvet dress and is leaning with arms crossed on a pillar.
- Description
- The Circus Collection includes the Photographic History Collection’s object holdings related to the history of circus from the end of the nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. For the purpose of this finding aid, circus is defined as any activity relating to the staging and viewing of circus, sideshow, or “freak show” performances. The collection is primarily composed of thirty cabinet print and thirteen carte-de-visite photographs of performers in circus “freak shows.” Some of these prints are marked with the identities of the individuals depicted, including Chang and Eng, Siamese twins employed by the Barnum & Bailey circus and Tom Thumb, a famous performer with dwarfism. In a number of the photographs, the people who performed for the circus are accompanied by their families, or “normal” individuals to emphasize the distinctiveness of the performer. The collection also includes a photo album with twenty-three photographs of circus performers. These pictures show “freak show” performers, acrobats, and other individuals who may have performed in circus shows.
- The collection also includes several books. In the handmade book, Record of an Idle Summer, Florence Albrecht details her summer activities and shares reflections on her time on the Jersey Shore in 1906. In the chapter “May,” the author describes the circus coming to town, including several photographs of circus tents, elephants, and a parade down the main street of the town. P.T. Barnum’s autobiography Struggles and Triumphs also exists in the Photographic History Collection. In the book, Barnum recounts his life’s endeavors, including his New York American Museum and eponymous circus. While there are no photographs in the book, there are a number of illustrations, including a portrait of P.T. Barnum based on G. K. Warren’s photograph, pictures of his museum and various aspects of his traveling show. There is a collection of gelatin silver photographs made in 1972 by Leslie Sussmann and Sally Bordwell documenting carnivals across the American South.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- PG.74.25.28
- accession number
- 2009.0146
- catalog number
- 74.25.28
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1882
- referenced
- Barnum, P. T.
- Bailey, J. A.
- Associated Name
- Newman, Raymond
- ID Number
- 1979.1137.02
- accession number
- 1979.1137
- catalog number
- 1979.1137.02
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- Description (Brief)
- Albumen cabinet card portrait of a diminutive couple identified as "Chief Debro and Wife / Esquimaux." The man is wearing a long, checkered coat and a hat and has a long beard. The woman, on his left, is wearing a dark hoop skirt dress with ruffled fabric shoulder decoration. The couple is standing in front of a backdrop painted with images of tables and plants. The maker marked "Sells Bros. / ANNEX. / 1894" on the back of the card.
- Description
- The Circus Collection includes the Photographic History Collection’s object holdings related to the history of circus from the end of the nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. For the purpose of this finding aid, circus is defined as any activity relating to the staging and viewing of circus, sideshow, or “freak show” performances. The collection is primarily composed of thirty cabinet print and thirteen carte-de-visite photographs of performers in circus “freak shows.” Some of these prints are marked with the identities of the individuals depicted, including Chang and Eng, Siamese twins employed by the Barnum & Bailey circus and Tom Thumb, a famous performer with dwarfism. In a number of the photographs, the people who performed for the circus are accompanied by their families, or “normal” individuals to emphasize the distinctiveness of the performer. The collection also includes a photo album with twenty-three photographs of circus performers. These pictures show “freak show” performers, acrobats, and other individuals who may have performed in circus shows.
- The collection also includes several books. In the handmade book, Record of an Idle Summer, Florence Albrecht details her summer activities and shares reflections on her time on the Jersey Shore in 1906. In the chapter “May,” the author describes the circus coming to town, including several photographs of circus tents, elephants, and a parade down the main street of the town. P.T. Barnum’s autobiography Struggles and Triumphs also exists in the Photographic History Collection. In the book, Barnum recounts his life’s endeavors, including his New York American Museum and eponymous circus. While there are no photographs in the book, there are a number of illustrations, including a portrait of P.T. Barnum based on G. K. Warren’s photograph, pictures of his museum and various aspects of his traveling show. There is a collection of gelatin silver photographs made in 1972 by Leslie Sussmann and Sally Bordwell documenting carnivals across the American South.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1894
- ID Number
- PG.74.25.18
- accession number
- 2009.0146
- catalog number
- 74.25.18
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1924
- referenced
- Ringling Brothers
- Barnum & Bailey Circus
- maker
- Strobridge Lithographic Company
- ID Number
- 1980.0902.01
- accession number
- 1980.0902
- catalog number
- 1980.0902.01
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- date made
- 1949
- ID Number
- 1989.0685.01
- accession number
- 1989.0685
- catalog number
- 1989.0685.01
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1915
- Associated Name
- Ringling Brothers
- ID Number
- 1980.0902.03
- accession number
- 1980.0902
- catalog number
- 1980.0902.03
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- Description (Brief)
- Albumen cabinet card portrait of a well-dressed man and two circus or "freak show" performers identified as "Montezuma Flatheads." In the photograph, two people, probably a man and a woman, are dressed in jungle-influenced costume, have prominent canine teeth sticking out from their closed lips, and both are bald except for a small tuft of hair on the top of their heads gathered into a pony tail. The mustachioed man standing between them with his hands on their shoulders is wearing a suit and prominently displays a watch chain that is tinted gold.
- Description
- The Circus Collection includes the Photographic History Collection’s object holdings related to the history of circus from the end of the nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. For the purpose of this finding aid, circus is defined as any activity relating to the staging and viewing of circus, sideshow, or “freak show” performances. The collection is primarily composed of thirty cabinet print and thirteen carte-de-visite photographs of performers in circus “freak shows.” Some of these prints are marked with the identities of the individuals depicted, including Chang and Eng, Siamese twins employed by the Barnum & Bailey circus and Tom Thumb, a famous performer with dwarfism. In a number of the photographs, the people who performed for the circus are accompanied by their families, or “normal” individuals to emphasize the distinctiveness of the performer. The collection also includes a photo album with twenty-three photographs of circus performers. These pictures show “freak show” performers, acrobats, and other individuals who may have performed in circus shows.
- The collection also includes several books. In the handmade book, Record of an Idle Summer, Florence Albrecht details her summer activities and shares reflections on her time on the Jersey Shore in 1906. In the chapter “May,” the author describes the circus coming to town, including several photographs of circus tents, elephants, and a parade down the main street of the town. P.T. Barnum’s autobiography Struggles and Triumphs also exists in the Photographic History Collection. In the book, Barnum recounts his life’s endeavors, including his New York American Museum and eponymous circus. While there are no photographs in the book, there are a number of illustrations, including a portrait of P.T. Barnum based on G. K. Warren’s photograph, pictures of his museum and various aspects of his traveling show. There is a collection of gelatin silver photographs made in 1972 by Leslie Sussmann and Sally Bordwell documenting carnivals across the American South.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- PG.74.25.23
- accession number
- 2009.0146
- catalog number
- 74.25.23
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1980
- used date
- 1980-03-29
- referenced
- Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
- ID Number
- 1981.0768.03a
- accession number
- 1981.0768
- catalog number
- 1981.0768.03a
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- Description (Brief)
- Albumen cabinet card of a very tall man and woman dressed for a wedding. The woman is wearing a white wedding dress and a necklace and crown of flowers tinted pink. The mustachioed man is wearing a tuxedo, holds a top hat, and has a yellow-tinted medal on his chest. "Morris" and "16 Sixth Street / Pittsburgh" are printed on the mount beneath the photo, identifying the photographic studio. The card's verso bears the caption "Mr. Patrick O'Brien, / Age, 29 - Height, 7 Feet 11 3/4 inches, / Mrs. Patrick O'Brien, / Age, 20 - Height, 7 feet 10 inches."
- Description
- The Circus Collection includes the Photographic History Collection’s object holdings related to the history of circus from the end of the nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. For the purpose of this finding aid, circus is defined as any activity relating to the staging and viewing of circus, sideshow, or “freak show” performances. The collection is primarily composed of thirty cabinet print and thirteen carte-de-visite photographs of performers in circus “freak shows.” Some of these prints are marked with the identities of the individuals depicted, including Chang and Eng, Siamese twins employed by the Barnum & Bailey circus and Tom Thumb, a famous performer with dwarfism. In a number of the photographs, the people who performed for the circus are accompanied by their families, or “normal” individuals to emphasize the distinctiveness of the performer. The collection also includes a photo album with twenty-three photographs of circus performers. These pictures show “freak show” performers, acrobats, and other individuals who may have performed in circus shows.
- The collection also includes several books. In the handmade book, Record of an Idle Summer, Florence Albrecht details her summer activities and shares reflections on her time on the Jersey Shore in 1906. In the chapter “May,” the author describes the circus coming to town, including several photographs of circus tents, elephants, and a parade down the main street of the town. P.T. Barnum’s autobiography Struggles and Triumphs also exists in the Photographic History Collection. In the book, Barnum recounts his life’s endeavors, including his New York American Museum and eponymous circus. While there are no photographs in the book, there are a number of illustrations, including a portrait of P.T. Barnum based on G. K. Warren’s photograph, pictures of his museum and various aspects of his traveling show. There is a collection of gelatin silver photographs made in 1972 by Leslie Sussmann and Sally Bordwell documenting carnivals across the American South.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- PG.74.25.09
- accession number
- 2009.0146
- catalog number
- 74.25.9
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1971
- depicted (sitter)
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.09
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.09
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1972
- depicted (sitter)
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.10
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.10
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1976
- depicted (sitter)
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.12
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.12
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1970s
- thru person
- Feld, Irvin
- user
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.08
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.08
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1978
- depicted (sitter)
- Gebel-Williams, Gunther
- ID Number
- 1980.0282.14
- accession number
- 1980.0282
- catalog number
- 1980.0282.14
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- Description (Brief)
- One of a set of 72 trading card featuring Superman, included in packages of Gum Inc.’s “Superman Bubble Gum” in 1940. Each “adventure story” card features an image of Superman on the front with a connected story on the back. The cards are one of the earliest examples of merchandise featuring the iconic superhero.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1940
- maker
- Gum, Inc.
- copyright holder
- Superman, Inc.
- associated institution
- Superman of America Club
- maker
- Gum, Inc.
- Superman, Inc.
- ID Number
- 1987.0213.054
- accession number
- 1987.0213
- catalog number
- 1987.0213.054
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