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Big Top Boss
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Big Top Boss

This first balanced picture of circus king John Ringling North explored the remarkable career of the man who ran Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily for thirty years. David Lewis Hammarstrom details how North guided the circus through adversities ranging from depressions and wars to crippling labor strikes and rapidly changing trends in American entertainment. Hammarstrom interviewed a host of circus figures including North himself; his formers, directors, and department heads who were involved with the circus when North owned and operated it.

Entertaining Elephants
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Entertaining Elephants

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-27
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry. Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species. Entertaining Elephants is the first account that uses research on animal welfare, ...

Catalog of Copyright Entries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 734

Catalog of Copyright Entries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1714

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).

Cinematic Cold War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Cinematic Cold War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The first book-length survey of cinema's vital role in the Cold War cultural combat between the U.S. and the USSR. Focuses on 10 films--five American and five Soviet, both iconic and lesser-known works--showing that cinema provided a crucial outlet for the global "debate" between democratic and communist ideologies.

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 884

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1957-07
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Law Firms Yellow Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1352

Law Firms Yellow Book

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Variety Entertainment and Outdoor Amusements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Variety Entertainment and Outdoor Amusements

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982-06-30
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

This is a useful reference work for popular culture and performing arts collections. Choice

The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists

Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses, gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sites for aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals of American circus history. Meet Fred Miltimore and the Green Brothers, runaways from the Fourth Ward School who became the first Bloomington-born flyers. Watch Art Concello, a ten-year-old truant, become first a world-class flyer, then a famous trapeze impresario and finally Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus's most successful general manager. The entire art of the trapeze--instruction, training, performance and management--became a Bloomington-Normal industry during the tented shows' golden age, when finding a circus flying act without a connection to this area would have been virtually impossible.