 Contact CHSOfficers & Trustees CHS history  Bandwagon, magazine.Information. Complete index, 1940 to current year. Order back issues. Many early articles online!  News & Views, the CHS Newsletter, information and index.
 Post questions or information on circuses, performers, staff, etc. here!Help answer questions here.  Convention news!Read about past conventions.  Visit our Circus History Library!Information on circuses, staff, performers, acts, equipment. Online books, route books, couriers. Over 150 articles online. Publications: •New York Clipper excerpts, •Billboard, •Circus Scrap Book, •Back Yard, •Circus Report.  Circus history and CHS merchandise available from CHS.
 Circus and circus-related books, magazines, newspapers, other.Indexes to White Tops (CFA), Circus Fanfare (Windjammers). Index to magazine articles, 1912-1972  Major collections in the USA.State-by-state listing.  Photos of shows, acts, wagons, animals.
 Interviews with and about circuses and circus showmen.
 Links to websites with early history, circuses, biograpies, museums and organizations.
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Circus Historical Society
CircusesSturtevant's List of Circuses, 1724-1952. Circuses, brief information Circus Winter Quarters, locations, early 1900s Routes, daily routes for a number of circuses with cities visited Al G. Barnes, 1914, 1915, 1922 (Official Route Book with staff and performers, route) P. T. Barnum's Circus, 1872-1873, 1875-77, 1879-80 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day route) Barnum & London Circus, 1881-86 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day routes) Clyde Beatty-Wallace Bros. Circus, 1943 (Official route book, pdf file) Campbell Bros. Circus (Courier) Cole Bros. Circus, 1945 (Official route book, pdf file) Cole Bros. Circus, 1949 (Official route book, many photos, pdf file) Cooper, Bailey & Co.'s Circus, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880 (Official Route Books with staff and performers) Adam Forepaugh Circus, 1878, 1880, 1883 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day route; 1874 Courier) Adam Forepaugh Sells Brothers Circus (Courier) Gentry Brothers Courier, 1913 Gentry Bros version two, 1913 Gentry Bros, 1929 (Couriers, pdf files) Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus (Courier) King Bros. & Cristiani, 1952, 1953 (official route book with staff and program, routes, pdf files) King & Franklin Shows 1888, 1890, offical route book with staff and performers, route. LaTena's 1917 (Official Route Book with staff and performers, route) Walter L. Main Circus (Walter L. Main Circus & Andrew Downie's Wild Animal Show, 1922 courier, pdf file) Great Pan-American Shows, 1903 (Official Route Book with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day route) Ringling Bros., 1890-1903 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day routes) Ringling Bros., 1884-92, 1904-18 (routes only) Ringling Bros., 1919-1967 (routes only) Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, 1941-1951 (Official Route Books with staff and performers) Sells Brothers, 1878 (Official Route Book with staff and performers) Sells Brothers & S. H. Barrett, 1890 (Official Route Book with staff and performers) Sparks Circus, 1919, 1923 couriers Sparks Circus, 1946 (Offical Route Book with staff, perfomers, route) Great Wallace Shows, 1904 (Offical Route Book with staff, perfomers, route) Yankee Patterson Circus 1945 (staff, program, performers, route)
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