Research Catalog

Title

Circus and carnival ballyhoo : sideshow freaks, jaggers and blade box queens / A.W. Stencell.

Author

Stencell, A. W., 1946-

Publication

Toronto : ECW Press, c2010.

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Details

Description

xix, 391 p. : ill., facsims., ports.; 21 x 26 cm.

Subject

• Sideshows > United States > History
• Freak shows > United States > History
• Carnivals > United States > History
• Circus > United States > History
• Entertainers > United States
• Sideshows > Canada > History
• Attractions (Spectacles) > États-Unis > Histoire
• Exhibitions de monstres > États-Unis > Histoire
• Fêtes foraines > États-Unis > Histoire
• Cirque > États-Unis > Histoire
• Artistes du spectacle > États-Unis
• Attractions (Spectacles) > Canada > Histoire

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-389) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The racket begins -- The sideshow matures -- Make way for the mud showmen -- Post-war boom and bust -- Roller-skating penguins -- Shows on Wheels -- "It's never out -- it's never over" -- A strange business for hustlers -- The inside money -- Buddha workers, jaggers and blade box queens -- Nothing but a crack of fat -- "Here I am -- there I go" -- Working acts -- Dime museums and amusement parks -- Store shows, theaters and whale carcasses -- Strong enough to be exhibited -- Grinding out a living -- Billy Reed is still alive -- Stiffs, stone giants and siberskoyes -- The last docs, professors, colonels and preachers -- Sideshow Hoi Polloi.

ISBN

9781550228809 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010497060

OCLC

• 318426949
• SCSB-12273023

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library