Francine O'Hornett account
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Traveling circuses photo album, approximately 1930s-1940s
Collection
Identifier: 2016-048
Scope and Contents
Collection of b/w circus snapshots primarily featuring performers (trapeze artists, clowns, elephant and horseback riders) behind the scenes, set-up crews and animal handlers, as well as circus company trains, transport caravans, and circus animals (camels, elephants, horses, dogs). Many photos bear handwritten notes about location, date and/or the performer's name on verso; several are stamped with the Peoria and Decatur, Illinois addresses of circusiana hobbyists Roy Frietsch and Bert...
Dates:
1930 - 1940
WWI British Territorial Forces, 3rd Home Counties Brigade photo album, 1914-1918
Collection
Identifier: 2016-047
Scope and Contents
An album of tipped-in photographs compiled by an unidentified soldier--a member of the 3rd Home Counties Brigade, A Royal Field Artillery (Cinque Ports) division of Britain's Territorial Forces during WWI; the division's purpose was to relieve regular troops needed at the Front. The photos document the soldier's service in India and Mesopotania, showing a variety of both personal and professional experiences ranging from tourist-type acitivities, hunting excursions, and views of the brigade...
Dates:
1914 - 1918
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- Acrobats 1
- Circus -- Photographs. 1
- Circus -- United States. 1
- Circus performers -- United States. 1
- Clowns. 1
- Postcards -- World War I. 1
- Special Collections -- Ephemera -- Circus. 1
- Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 1
- Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I. 1
- Tents -- United States. 1
- World War I Collection 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Macedonia 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. 1 + ∧ less
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