Creator:
Becker, Ronald G.
Inclusive Dates:
1836- 1960
Abstract:
More than one thousand photographs of 19th century sideshows and circuses, most by photographer Charles Eisenmann or his successor Frank Wendt, the remainder by unknown photographers. Most of the photographs depict the physical abnormalities of humans and animals featured at these shows. Subjects include P.T. Barnum, the P.T. Barnum Firm (Barnum and Bailey Circus), and Tom Thumb. Also included are Becker's research notes, an 1865-1868 run of The New York Clipper (forerunner of Billboard Magazine), and various print (broadsides and posters) and non-print circus memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Advertising fliers.
Albumen prints.
Broadsides (notices)
Cabinet photographs.
Cartes-de-visite.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Ephemera.
Gelatin silver prints.
Notes (documents)
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Posters.
Salted paper prints.
Subject:
New York clipper.
Photographers.
Photography
Abnormalities, Human -- Photographs.
Advertising, Circus.
Amusement parks -- Photographs.
Animals -- Abnormalities -- Photographs.
Broadsides -- 19th century.
Cabinet photographs.
Carte de visite photographs.
Circus -- Collectibles.
Circus animals -- Photographs.
Circus performers -- United States -- Photographs.
Deformities, Artificial -- Photographs.
Dwarfs -- Portraits.
Freak shows -- Photographs.
Giants -- Portraits.
Photography of the grotesque -- United States.
Portrait photography.
Posters -- 19th century.
Printed ephemera.
Conjoined twins -- Portraits.
Creator:
Bergmann, Peter Gabriel.
Inclusive Dates:
1924- 2002
Abstract:
Biographical materials, correspondence-subject files,
course materials, Einstein-related materials, and writings of Syracuse University physics
professor Peter G. Bergmann.
Type of Material:
Photographs.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Articles.
Book illustrations.
Posters.
Subject:
College teachers.
Physicists.
Higher education.
University Archives
Syracuse University -- History
Syracuse University -- Faculty and Staff
Physics.
Constraints (Physics)
Unified field theories.
General relativity (Physics)
Underwater acoustics.
Creator:
Buffington, Kath, 1951 or 1952.
Inclusive Dates:
1963- 2000
Abstract:
Correspondence, printed material and posters/memorabilia relating to non-violent direct action and war/tax resistance.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Posters.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.)
Rome (N.Y.)
Nuclear times.
Peace newsletter.
Activism and social reform
New York State
Civil disobedience -- New York (State)
Civil disobedience -- United States.
Civil disobedience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Direct action.
Government, Resistance to.
Nonviolence.
Nuclear disarmament.
Passive resistance -- United States.
Pacifists -- United States.
Peace -- Societies, etc.
War tax resistance.