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Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Circus - Vaudeville

Circus Historical Society

Dedicated to recording the history of the American circus from the first one in Philadelphia during 1793 to today.

Circus Route Books | Milner Library - Illinois State

Various route books for circuses that include day to day info, pictures of performers and other cool things.

Circus World - Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center

Baraboo, Wisconsin. Collections of paper, photographic and sound materials relating to circus life.

Circus-Folk Genealogy Resources

CIRCUS-FOLK Mailing List (RootsWeb, archived on Archive-It)

Circuses and Sideshows - Circus History, Circus Performers and Owners

Circusmuseum

A project Allard Pierson (University of Amsterdam) and Stichting Theater in Nederland.

CircusTalk.News

Includes history and obituaries.

Connecticut Digital Archive - P.T. Barnum and Circus History

Dover Public Library - The Circus Collection

Florida State University Library - Harrison Sayre Circus Collection

History Magazine - Bob Brooke presents the history of the circus in America.

Houston Public Library - Heiser-Alban Collection of Historical Circus Materials

International Independent Showmen's Museum

Riverview, Florida

John Robinson’s Circus Fifty Years Ago July 26, 1929 - The Lawrence Register

Sixty-one years ago in 1868, D. L. Ogg freight representatives of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, who resides on North Fifth Street, rode 13 miles in a farm jolt wagon to see John Robinson’s circus at Athens, Ohio.

Library of Congress - Search results for Circus

Photos, drawings, manuscripts.

Long Island University - Archives and Special Collections: Circus and Buffalo Bill Collection

National Fairground and Circus Archive

From the The University of Sheffield.

New York Public Library - Archives and Manuscripts - Circus collection 1870s-1940s