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The showies : revelations of Australian outdoor side-showmen / Bob Morgan.
- Text
- Mitcham, [Australia] : B. Morgan, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 97-5387 Offsite Freakery : cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body / edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson.
- Text
- New York : New York University Press, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 97-116 Offsite Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.
- Text
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 97-4548 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Strange feats & clever turns : remarkable speciality acts in variety vaudeville and sideshows at the turn of the 20th century as seen by their contemporaries / complied by Charlie Holand.
- Text
- London : Holland & Palmer, 1998
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFH 99-7428 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Girl show : into the canvas world of bump and grind / A.W. Stencell.
- Text
- Toronto : ECW Press, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MGX 00-3678 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Gesammeltes Vergnügen : das Essener Markt- und Schaustellermuseum / Erich Knocke (Hrsg.).
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- Essen : Klartext, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQF 02-982 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Side show : my life with geeks, freaks & vagabonds in the carny trade / by Howard Bone with Daniel Waldron ; foreword by Teller.
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- Northville, Mich. : Sun Dog Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 02-705 Offsite Sideshow U.S.A : freaks and the American cultural imagination / Rachel Adams.
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 02-118 Offsite Prophet Annie : being the recently discovered memoir of Annie Pinkerton Boone Newcastle Dearborn, prophet and seer / Ellen Recknor.
- Text
- New York : Avon Books, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 02-24744 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A scattering of jades / Alexander Irvine.
- Text
- New York : Tor, c2002.
- 2002
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 03-1183 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 05-1892 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Step right this way : the photographs of Edward J. Kelty / [edited by] Miles Barth, Alan Siegel ; essay by Edward Hoagland.
- Text
- New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWES+ (Kelty, E.) 04-3121 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
James Taylor's shocked and amazed! : on and off the midway / James Taylor and Kathleen Kotcher.
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- Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWF 03-4058 Offsite Seeing is believing : America's sideshows / A.W. Stencell.
- Text
- [Toronto] : ECW Press, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 03-6746 Offsite Despoten auf der Bühne : die Inszenierung von Macht und ihre Abstürze / Veit Sprenger.
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- Bielefeld : Transcript, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 06-4477 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Waxing mythical : the life and legend of Madame Tussaud / Kate Berridge.
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- London : John Murray, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQE 06-748 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Ragged but right : black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff.
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
- 2007
- 2 Items
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006015009.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMF 07-830 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 07-223 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Circus Saints and Sinners : photographs [graphic].
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Pho B (Circus Saints and Sinners) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Circus and carnival ballyhoo : sideshow freaks, jaggers and blade box queens / A.W. Stencell.
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- Toronto : ECW Press, c2010.
- 2010
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 10-6096 Offsite Wildstyle : the history of a new idea / [Herausgeber und Verleger, Clayton Patterson & Jochen Auer ; Fotos, Clayton Patterson unter Mitarbeit von Elsa Rensaa und Michael Auer].
- Text
- [Vienna?] : Unique Publishing, c2003
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFG 09-631 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Love never dies (Musical : Lloyd Webber) : programs.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-PRG (Love never dies (Musical : Lloyd Webber)) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Love never dies (Musical : Lloyd Webber) : clippings.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-CLP (Love never dies (Musical : Lloyd Webber)) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Edward Gant's Amazing feats of loneliness (Neilson) : clippings.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-CLP (Edward Gant's Amazing feats of loneliness (Neilson)) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Early African entertainments abroad : from the Hottentot Venus to Africa's first Olympians / Bernth Lindfors.
- Text
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
- 2014-2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 14-1487 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Extraordinary bodies [electronic resource] : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.
- Text
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://hdl-handle-net.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/2027/heb.02826The unholy three (Motion picture), 1925: photographs.
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- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Pho B (Unholy three, 1925) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Extraordinary bodies [electronic resource] : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.
- Text
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
- 1997
- 2 Resources
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The unholy three (Motion picture), 1930: photographs.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Pho B (Unholy three, 1930) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Early African entertainments abroad [electronic resource] : from the Hottentot Venus to Africa's first Olympians / Bernth Lindfors.
- Text
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2014]
- 2014-2014
- 2 Resources
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For a short time only : itinerants and the resurgence of popular culture in early America / Peter Benes.
- Text
- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
- 2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWED 16-4996 Offsite Circus sideshow : Antonin Kratochvil / napsal/by Petr Volf.
- Text
- Praha : Kant, 2016.
- 2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 18-14680 Offsite For a short time only [electronic resource] : itinerants and the resurgence of popular culture in early America / Peter Benes.
- Text
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
- 2016
- 2 Resources
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Ragged but right [electronic resource] : black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz / Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff.
- Text
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
- 2007
- 2 Resources
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Secrets of the sideshows [electronic resource] / Joe Nickell.
- Text
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
- 2005
- 2 Resources
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Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1928-1936.
- Still image
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c7206500-1664-0136-2286-75b9396420ecItem details Format Call Number Item Location Still image *T-Vim 2017-011 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs, 1924-1938.
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- 1 Item
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/4d4d51d0-517b-0136-bb12-0ad1862c2541Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Vim 2018-001 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.
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- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- 2018-2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 18-3099 Offsite Canadian carnival freaks and the extraordinary body, 1900-1970s / Jane Nicholas.
- Text
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- 2018-2018
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 18-3079 Offsite Dr. J. Herbert Low scrapbooks.
- Mixed material
- 1876-1907.
- 1876-1907
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material MWEZ+ n.c. 9574 (Volume 1, Chicago) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material MWEZ+ n.c. 9575 (Volume 2, New York and Brooklyn) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material MWEZ+ n.c. 9575A (Poster) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Swimming for sunlight / Allie Larkin.
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- New York : Atria Paperback, 2019.
- 2019
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 19-4029 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Secrets of the sideshows / Joe Nickell.
- Text
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007624.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 05-6295 Offsite Earthly astonishments / by Marthe Jocelyn.
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- New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J FIC J Offsite The tattooed lady : a history / Amelia Klem Osterud.
- Text
- Golden [Colo.] : Speck Press, c2009.
- 2009
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 10-503 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Wonder show / by Hannah Barnaby.
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012.
- 2012
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 13-1985 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The captain and "the cannibal" : an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the Broadway stage / James Fairhead.
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015].
- 2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 15-2647 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Nós, os outros / Kelly Júlia Pfüller ; [introdução por] Teresa Cabañas.
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- Santa Maria (RS), Brasil : Vento Norte Cartonero, 2019.
- 2019
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JX 21-2074 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
T͡Sirkovai͡a "stena smerti" v SSSR / Lazarev Leonid Nikolaevich, Zubova Irina Lʹvovna.
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- Moskva : ITRK, 2020.
- 2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 21-12360 Offsite The secret history of Las Vegas : a novel / Chris Abani.
- Text
- New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
- 2014
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 22-13 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The land of the hunger artists : science, spectacle, and authority, c. 1880-1922 / Agustí Nieto-Galan.
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- 2024-2024
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 24-2976 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Not available - Please for assistance.Side show : original 2014 Broadway cast recording / music, Henry Krieger ; book and lyrics, Bill Russell ; additional book material, Bill Condon.
- Audio
- [New York] : Broadway Records, [2015]
- 2015-2015
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio CD27157 Off-site Circus sideshow : Antonin Kratochvil / napsal/by Petr Volf.
- Text
- Praha, Czech Republic : Kant, 2016.
- 2016
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TR820.5 .V65 2016g Off-site
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