UCSB Special Collections: Performing Arts: Circus and Magic Collections

Performing Arts Collection:
Circus and Magic Collections

General Mite

Midget performer photograph album, 1868 (PA SC 21)
British manuals and guides to magic tricks, conjuring, illusions, and prestidigitation (PA Mss 66)
- Early 20th century British pamphlets and ephemeral guides to magic of a practical nature.
Brown (Betsy) Puppetry Collection (PA Mss 38)
- Collection of programs, newletters, clippings and other material related to puppetry, clowns and the circus, including the puppet theater of Europe and Asia.
California circus photographs, 1950s (PA Mss 67)
- Photographs of California circuses in the early 1950s, including Clyde Beatty Circus.
Little Performers Collection (PA Mss 61)
- Collection of photographs, cartes-de-visite, and souvenir circus programs relating to little people performers in late 19th and early 20th century circus and vaudeville.
Photo-record album: 18th annual convention International Brotherhood of Magicians, St. Louis, 1946 (PA SC 16)
- Photo book from the 1946 convention of the International Brotherhood of Magicians with sixty photos by Irvin Schankman with captions.
Saxon (Arthur Hartley) Collection (PA Mss 11)
- Typescript of The Life and Art of Andrew Ducrow and the Romantic Age of the English Circus, and accompanying essay. .4 linear ft.
Toole-Stott (Raymond) Circus Collection (PA Mss 14)
- Monographs on the circus and research material for Toole-Stott's Circus and Allied Arts: A World Bibliography.