Circus Transitions: Life Before, In and After the Circus
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Circus Arts / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 July 08
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0708_Circus_Arts_Circus_Stories_0008
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Jennifer Lemmer-Posey (presenter); Jennifer Lemmer-Posey; Elena Panova Father of the Modern Circus. Philip Astley opened a horse-trick-riding exhibit in 1768, adding other forms of entertainment like acrobats, animals, and clowns. Approximately two centuries later, America had over one hundred traveling circuses.