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[Collection of performing arts ephemera],
Published: Adam Matthew Digital ; Adam Matthew Education [North American distributor], 2010Holdings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Acrobats and mountebanks
Authors: Le Roux, Hugues, 1860-1925
Published: Chapman and Hall, 1890Physical Description: xii, 336 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Among the freaks
Authors: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston), 1837-1908
Published: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896Physical Description: viii, 195, 24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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L'amour d'un clown
Authors: Soudak, Louis de
Published: Calmann Lévy, 1899Physical Description: 364 pages ; 19 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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The amusements of old London : being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginn...
Authors: Boulton, William B. (William Biggs)
Published: Nimmo, 1901Physical Description: 2 volumes : color illustrations ; 24 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to: Vol. 1 - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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The art of taming horses
Authors: Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon), 1827-1866
Published: George Routledge & Co., 1858Physical Description: vi, 233, 14 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Astley's system of equestrian education : exhibiting the beauties and defects of the horse, with serious and important advice on its general excellence, preserving it in health, gr...
Authors: Astley, Philip, 1742-1814
Published: Sold by C. Creed, ... and the principal Booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1801Physical Description: 15, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some folded) ; 22 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Before the footlights and behind the scenes : a book about "the show business" in all its branches : from puppet shows to grand opera, from mountebanks to menageries, from learned...
Authors: Logan, Olive, 1839-1909
Published: Parmelee & Co., 1870Physical Description: 612 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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The book of wonderful characters : memoirs and anecdotes of remarkable and eccentric persons in all ages and countries
Authors: Wilson, G. H. (Henry)
Published: Reeves and Turner, 1869Physical Description: 416 pages, 61 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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The boys' life of Barnum
Authors: Root, Harvey W. (Harvey Woods), 1876-1966
Published: Harper & Bros., 1926Physical Description: 242 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.Holdings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Buffalo Bill at Last Chance.
Published: Aldine, 1910Physical Description: 74 unnumbered pages.Holdings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Chemical amusement : comprising a series of curious and instructive experiments in chemistry, which are easily performed, and unattended by danger
Authors: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838
Published: Printed for Thomas Boys, 1818Physical Description: xxxvi, 360, 59 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Circus life and circus celebrities
Authors: Frost, Thomas, 1821-1908
Published: Tinsley Bros., 1875Physical Description: xvi, 328 pages ; 20 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Clowns & pantomimes
Authors: Disher, M. Willson (Maurice Willson), 1893-1969
Published: Constable & Co., 1925Physical Description: xix, 343 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Cruikshank's whimsical book : containing the funny anecdotes, stump speeches, recitations, and comic whimsicalities as used by him while performing at Hengler's, Newsome's, Sanger'...
Authors: Cruikshank, W. C.
Published: [publisher not identified], 1893Physical Description: 24 pages ; 22 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Description of the circus on the Via Appia, near Rome : with some account of the Circensian games
Authors: Burgess, Richard, 1796-1881
Published: John Murray, 1828Physical Description: vii, 111 pages : illustrations (some folded) ; 21 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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English eccentrics and eccentricities
Authors: Timbs, John, 1801-1875
Published: Chatto and Windus, 1877Physical Description: xvi, 578, 32 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Fahrend Volk : Abnormitäten, Kuriositäten und interessante Vertreter der wandernden Künstlerwelt
Authors: Saltarino, Signor, 1863-1941
Published: Brinkmann & Bose, 1978Physical Description: x, 150 pages : illustrationsHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Famous frosts and frost fairs in Great Britain : chronicled from the earliest to the present time
Authors: Andrews, William, 1848-1908
Published: George Redway, 1887Physical Description: viii, 91 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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Fifty years of a showman's life, or, The life and travels of Van Hare
Authors: Van Hare, G., 1815-
Published: W.H. Allen & Co., 1888Physical Description: xii, 418 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 19 cmHoldings: Loading…Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Adam Matthew Digital)
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