I just found out, through Infodocket, that the University of Florida Digital Collections added a Ringling Collection. The collection can be searched, but what really caught my eye was the "Themes" tab. It's a listing of all the different backgrounds or elements that are part of the photo. This includes everything from baldness, to draperies, to supernatural beings. (It's odd to see that five of the actresses were photographed with cats. I thought there would be more.)
Other places to see Ringling history are The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and The Circus in America (via the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities).
Some great fiction titles that go with circus history are:
Carter Beats the Devil by Glenn David Gold
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (much, much spicier than Water for Elephants, not for the faint of heart)
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