Call Number
CWM Mss 30

Title
Sigsbee, Albert W. (1884-1959?) Papers, 1912-1956 (.2 c.f. 1 box)

Scope and Content
Papers of Albert W. Sigsbee, booking agent, producer of acts, and business manager for several small Midwest circuses. The collection consists of 22 letters concerning contracts, and bookings, especially in 1928, as well as small amount of news clippings and advertisement material relating to Sigsbee’s own vaudeville and circus operations including Sigsbee’s Dog and Pony Show.

Presented to the Wisconsin Historical Society by Albert M. Sigsbee in 1956 and Mrs. Sigsbee in 1959. Transferred to Circus World Museum, June 1970.

Container List
Box      Folder
Box 1   Folder 1           Advertisement, Prof. W.A, Sigsbee’s Marvelous Performing Dogs, 1912
Box 1   Folder 2           Contract with Myhre’s Great Eastern Shows, 1921
                                    Correspondence
Box 1   Folder 3                       Bud Hawkins Players 1936
Box 1   Folder 4                       Central Show Printing Co., 1934
Box 1   Folder 5                       Earl Taylor Enterprises, 1928-1935
Box 1   Folder 6                       Eugene Marcum, 1925
Box 1   Folder 7                       General, 1912-1952, undated
Box 1   Folder 8                       Riddles Society Circus Unit, 1935, 1936, undated
Box 1   Folder 9                       Russell Bros. Circus, 1935
Box 1   Folder 10                     Seal Bros. Circus, 1936-1937
Box 1   Folder 11                     Seils-Sterling Circus, 1927-1936
Box 1   Folder 12                     Sells-Sterling Circus, 1920-1933
Box 1   Folder 13                     Sills-Sterling Circus, 1926
Box 1   Folder 14                     Stark Bros. Circus, 1927
Box 1   Folder 15                     The Great Yankee American and Lindeman Bros. 
                                                Combined Shows, 1921-1922
Box 1   Folder 16                     U.S. Printing and Engraving Co., 1937
Box 1   Folder 17                     Witte, Frank Sr., 1919
Box 1   Folder 18         Dayton “The man with many voices,” 1912
Box 1   Folder 19         Envelopes
Box 1   Folder 20         License Contract, Mighty Haag Circus, 1934
Box 1   Folder 21         News Clippings, 1915, 1956
Box 1   Folder 22         Newspaper Contract, Curtis-Gregg Fashion Plate Shows, 1933
Box 1   Folder 23         Program, Sigsbee Indoor Circus, 1925