Scope and Contents Four panels : (1) Flea Bride and Groom, Flea with Baby Bug; (2) Flea Artillery, Flea Juggler; (3) Flea Chariot Race, Flea Football Player; (4) Flea with Wheelbarrow, Flea Merry Go Round1) Top register: painting of anthropomorphic fleas performing a wedding ceremony on top register. Bottom register: painting of anthropomorphic flea pushing a baby carriage in an outdoor scene; (2) Top register: anthropomorphic fleas engaged in a battle with two tanks. Bottom register:...

Abstract The collection contains correspondence, bills, receipts, broadsides, and business advertisements pertaining to Martin Bros. Circus, located in Castle Creek, Broome County, New York. The circus was owned and operated by Clayton Hawkes and Carroll Miller. Its tent shows toured upstate New York beginning in the 1930s, with the company's winter quarters in Castle Creek. Clayton Hawkes and his wife Madge also ran other circus shows, including Clayton's Combined, Bogart and Hawkes, and the Great...

Overview

These items were primarily assembled between 1962 and 1995 by members of the Binghamton University Theatre Department. The main focus of this collection is theater but there are also materials relating to motion pictures, music and dance. Included are scrapbooks, programs, photographs, and ephemera such as tickets and broadsides.