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Call Number
CWM Mss 96, CWM Ph 69
 
Title
Wilde, Walter K., 1939-2015 Papers, 1901-1960
 
Abstract
A collection of photographs, art prints, tickets, and documents relating to a variety of circuses in the late 19th and early 20th century. Of particular note is a collection of advertisements and business papers relating to the circus activity of the Parsons family of Darlington, primarily advertisements and business correspondence.
 
Biography
Walter K. Wilde was a native of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and circus enthusiast and longtime supporter of Circus World Museum.
 
Scope and Content Note
A collection of photographs, art prints, tickets, and documents relating to a variety of circuses in the late 19th and early 20th century. Of particular note is a collection of advertisements and business papers relating to the circus activity of the Parsons family of Darlington, primarily advertisements and business correspondence. The collection includes couriers for the Adams and Sells Circus, Ringling Bros. Circus (pre-1918), and Dailey Bros. Circus. Also found in the collection is a lot contract and dinner menu from the Ringling Bros. Circus in 1901 and artwork by John Stuart Curry.
 
CWM Mss 96
Box        Folder
Box 1     Folder 1               Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus, Route Sheet, 1959
Box 1     Folder 2 (os)       Art prints
Box 1     Folder 3              Circus Hall of Fame, Sarasota
Box 1     Folder 4              Circus World Museum
Box 1     Folder 5 (os)       Couriers, 1904-1918
Box 1     Folder 6              Lot Contract, Ringling Bros. Circus, 1910
Box 1     Folder 7              Menu, Farwell Dinner, Ringling Bros. Circus, 1901
Box 1     Folder 8              Movie tickets, “Greatest Show on Earth,” Baraboo, 1954
Box 1     Folder 9 (os)       Parsons Circus Papers
Box 1     Folder 10            Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Route Book, 1936
               
 
CWM Ph 69
Box        Folder
Box 1     Folder 1              Al G. Barnes-Sells Floto Circus, undated
Box 1     Folder 2              Atayde Circus, 1947
Box 1     Folder 3              Circus Hall of Fame, Sarasota
Box 1     Folder 4              Circus World Museum
Box 1     Folder 5              Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus, winter quarters, 1960s
Box 1     Folder 6              Cole Bros. Circus, 1947-1949
Box 1     Folder 7              Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, 1938
Box 1     Folder 8              Junior Chamber of Commerce Circus, Springfield, 1947
Box 1     Folder 9              Leitzel, Lillian
Box 1     Folder 10            Performers
Box 1     Folder 11            Ray Wolfe Paintings (Postcards)
Box 1     Folder 12            Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1939-1947
Box 1     Folder 13            Robbins Bros. Circus, undated
Box 1     Folder 14            Wilde, Roland and Walter