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Century Flashlight Photographers circus photographs

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Text	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2018-001	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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61 photographic prints : gelatin silver, b&w; 30.5 x 51 cm. and smaller

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Photographic prints.

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Large-format black and white photographs primarily by the Edward J. Kelty Century Flashlight Photographers company document 23 circus troupes and one rodeo performing in the Midwest, East Coast, and Montreal, Canada. Images depict group portraits and exterior and interior tent views. Manuscript annotations, likely by Harold Dunn, are present on the verso of a few images. Some photographs may be later reprints by collector Harold Dunn from Kelty negatives. All photographs are credited to Kelty, except for a photograph of the Sparks Circus and a photograph of the Worldwide Rodeo Championship, both by Knickerbocker Photographers.
Previously catalogued as MWEZ +++ n.c. 19,347.

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