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Guide to the Dave and Mary Jane Price Clyde Beatty Collection 1905-2010

Location: Special Collections & Rare Books Room at Illinois State University

Accession ID: 46/SC-2015-06

Creators: Price, Dave; Price, Mary Jane

Extent - 50.50 linear feet (3 file cabinet drawers, 14.5 linear feet of shelving, 8 map case drawers, 3 loft

shelves, 1 oversize case)

Language: English, Spanish

Abstract: Research files, manuscripts, photos, posters, artifacts, and secondary material related to circus

performer Clyde Beatty.

Biography: Clyde Beatty (1903-1965) was a twentieth century celebrity chiefly famous for being a lion

and tiger trainer in the circus.

Clyde Beatty was born in Bainbridge, Ohio on 10 June 1903. He joined the circus at eighteen, initially

working as a cage cleaner but quickly achieving fame as a big cat trainer. Beatty worked with up to 40

lions and tigers of both sexes in the cage at the same time, and was one of the most well-known circus

performers of his day. Beatty appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1950s, and on television until the

1960s (including such cultural mainstays as The Ed Sullivan Show). The Clyde Beatty Show, a syndicated

radio series loosely based on events in Beatty's own life, aired from 1950 to 1952. Beatty owned his own

circus show for a time. Later the Beatty Show name was leased by the parties who had acquired the

show at bankruptcy, who eventually also bought the Cole Bros. Show title (which had been unused for

several years) and added it to the Beatty title to form the title Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus.

Beatty married three times over the course of his life, first to Ernestine Pegg of Peru, Indiana. The two

had one child, Joyce Ferguson, also of Peru, Indiana. On 16 September 1933 Beatty married his second

wife, Harriet Evans, who had joined the circus several years earlier. Harriet went on to become an

animal trainer in her own right, and had her own act beginning in 1935. Their marriage lasted until

Harriet's death in 1950. Beatty married a third time, to Jane Abel of San Antonio, and the two had one

child, Clyde Beatty Jr. Beatty died of cancer at age 62 on 19 July 1965.

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms:

Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus

Beatty, Clyde, 1903-1965--Photographs

Beatty, Clyde, 1903-1965

Circus owners

Administrative Information

Access restrictions: 8mm and 16mm films were moved to off-site cold storage for preservation

purposes. Access to these items will need to be coordinated through the Special Collections Librarian.

Special Collections may not have the equipment to provide playback of certain audio and video formats

(for example, Laserdisc). Special Collections will attempt to provide access in an alternative format

when this occurs. Please contact the Special Collections Librarian for further details.

Arrangement of Materials: The Dave and Mary Jane Price Clyde Beatty Collection is arranged into seven

series.

Series 1, Research Files and Correspondence contains research materials compiled by collection donor

Dave Price. The series is divided into two sub-series, Research Files and Correspondence Regarding

Research. Research Files relate to a specific year in Beatty's life (for example, 1955 relates to events in

the year 1955, although documents may have been created in other years) and are arranged

chronologically by event year. Also included are a few subject related research files. Correspondence

Regarding Research contains correspondence to and from Price regarding research into various aspects

of Beatty's life and career.

Series 2, Manuscripts contains manuscript material such as sheet music, circus correspondence (with

letterheads and envelopes), business records, CFA (Circus Fan Association) rosters, lithograph routes,

movie related materials, press materials, and a small amount of photos. Materials are arranged

chronologically.

Series 3, Photographs contains photos related to Beatty's life and career. Photographs are divided into

three sub-series by format. Sub-Series 1, 8x10 Photographs contains photos related to venues where

Beatty performed, photos of Beatty, second wife Harriet, third wife Jane, and son Clyde Jr., circus

photos, animal photos, locations associated with Beatty, the several motion pictures Beatty starred in,

and promotional photos. Sub-Series 2, Photo scrapbooks, contains photo albums with photos related to

Beatty's life and career. Sub-Series 3, 5x7 and smaller photographs, contains photos arranged

chronologically, Beatty and various circuses, equipment, zoo ground photos, and the photo collection of

Bob Cline.

Series 4, Publications contains published materials related to Beatty. The series is arranged into nine

sub-series: Comics, Lobby cards, Newspapers, Periodicals, (Circus) Programs, Published books, Route

cards, Scrapbooks of newsclippings, and Souvenir postcards with maps and newsclippings. Each sub-

series contains materials related to the title of the sub-series.

Series 5, Audio and Video contains video and audio recordings related to Beatty. Both Sub-Series are

divided further by format, and arranged chronologically within that format). The Audio Sub-Series

contains recording of the Clyde Beatty Radio Show, a player-piano roll of "Where is my wandering boy

tonight," (which music his mother used to play on the player piano after Clyde left) and circus and

popular music related to Beatty. The Video Sub-Series contains films and serials starring Beatty, of

Beatty in various circus performances, promotional films made by Beatty, appearances made by Beatty

on television, and films of performers related to Beatty and big cat training.

Series 6, Artifacts contains three dimensional objects and memorabilia related to Clyde Beatty and the

Clyde Beatty Museum. The series is divided into seven sub-series, including Apparel; Figurines and

statues; Printing, Show and personal items; Signage; Toys, models, films, souvenirs; and Small display

items.

Series 7, Posters and Wall Art contains posters related to Clyde Beatty and the various circuses with

which he performed. Posters are foldered by size, and then by circus.

Scope and Contents

Series 1, Research Files, contains materials documenting Clyde Beatty's life and career, subject related

materials, and correspondence to and from Dave Price regarding research into Beatty and related

subjects. Folder 65 contains material documenting the provenance of many of the collection artifacts

personally used and owned by Beatty. Much of this documentation has been photocopied and is

included in folder 0, the general guide to the collection.

Series 2, Manuscripts, contains sheet music, circus correspondence (with letterheads and envelopes),

notebooks with big cat covers (contents are not Beatty related), show scrip books, tickets, postcards,

photos, CFA (Circus Fans Association) rosters, Clyde Beatty Jungle Zoo, correspondence signed by Beatty,

lithograph routes, sideshow manager's financial statements, correspondence from Victor Robbins to

Albert Glasser (including the Big Cage sheet music and a picture of Robbins), a Ring of Fear revised final

shooting script, Clyde Beatty Animal Act musical program, employees tax withholding forms, bill poster

routes, commissary coupon book, check stubs, employees' records, paycheck stubs, Circus Showcase

music, payroll ledger, business forms (blank), celebrity quotes about Beatty, a blank circus headquarters

page, press department folders, and tickets, business cards, and a circus Dixie cup.

Series 3, Photographs, contains 8x10 photos of Al Sirat Circus Arena, autographed photos, circuses,

circus animals, Clyde Beatty, Clyde Beatty Zoo, Jungleland, mural sized posters, Clyde Beatty Circus, Fort

Lauderdale, Harriet Beatty, the Kasier Safari and other vehicles associated with Beatty, motion picture

stills (Africa Screams, The Big Cage, Castle Films, Circus Days, Darkest Africa, Lost Jungle, Perils of the

Jungle, Ring of Fear, posters, programs, comics, Bainbridge (Ohio), Big Little Books, and promotional

photos. Also included are photo album scrapbooks with various photos. Finally, included are smaller

photos (5x7 and smaller) with slides advertising The Big Cage and Darkest Africa, Clyde Beatty, billing,

previously framed smaller photographs from the Clyde Beatty Museum, snapshots of equipment on the

Beatty Railroad Show, Jungle Zoo ground photos, posters, railroad cars, trucks, and photos from the Bob

Cline Collection.

Series 4, Publications, contains comics featuring Beatty to a various extent (The Action-Packed

Adventures of Clyde Beatty, Circus Comics, Clyde Beatty, Clyde Beatty's African Jungle Book, a six panel

Clyde Beatty comic, Crackajack Funnies, El Pato Donald y Otras Historietas, Jungle Adventures, Jungle

Comics, Real Fact Comics, Strange Tales, Super Comics, and coloring books). Also included are lobby

cards for serials and motion pictures such as Africa Screams, The Big Cage, La Cazadora de Leones (there

are lobby cards in Spanish for Africa Screams, Darkest Africa, and Ring of Fear), Circus Days, Darkest

Africa, The Flying Fontaines (which used some footage from either Ring of Fear or Three Ring Circus),

King of Jungleland (a reissue of Darkest Africa), The Lost Jungle, Perils of the Jungle, and Ring of Fear.

Also included are various newspapers and articles with stories featuring Beatty or related news items,

periodicals, circus programs, published books, route cards, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and

souvenir postcards of locations associated with Beatty with accompanying maps and newsclippings.

Series 5, Audio and Video, contains in various formats episodes of The Clyde Beatty Radio Show,

"Where is my Wandering Boy Tonight," popular music relevant to or referencing Beatty, and films or

videos starring, by, about, or referencing Beatty.

Series 6, Artifacts, contains apparel, figurines and statues, printing hardware, show and personal items,

signage, toys, models, films, souvenirs, and small display items related to Beatty or the Clyde Beatty

Museum.

Series 7, Posters and Wall Art, contains posters related to Clyde Beatty and the circuses he performed

in or was associated with throughout his career.

Detailed Contents Listing

Series 1: Research Files and Correspondence

Description: Research files compiled by Dave Price on Clyde Beatty.

Sub-series 1: Research Files

Drawer 1, folder 1 - Research file, 1921-1924.

Drawer 1, folder 2 - Research file, 1925-1927.

Drawer 1, folder 3 - Research file, 1928.



















Drawer 2, folder 47 - Layout originals for Circus Stories, 1937, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 48 - Television and radio, 1954-1958, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 49 - Frank J. Walter Circus, 1932-1953, undated.

Description: Walter was a close friend of Beatty and assisted Beatty financially at least once to get the

show out of winter quarters.

Drawer 2, folder 50 - Studebaker ad campaign, 1937.

Drawer 2, folder 51 - Childhood, 1937, 1977-1984, 2004-2006.

Drawer 2, folder 52 - Childhood, 1937, 1977-1984, 2004-2006.

Drawer 2, folder 53 - 1934-1945, 1997, 2000 News-Sentinel Articles on Beatty, 2009.

Drawer 2, folder 54 - Detroit and Michigan State Fair images, 2008, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 55 - Deming, New Mexico Railroad Map and Images, 2003-2005, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 56 - Newhall, California, 1938, 1985, 2006, undated.

Description: Includes William S. Hart material.

Drawer 2, folder 57 - El Monte, California, 1982, 1984, 2000-2010, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 58 - Photocopies for presentation materials, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 59 - Circus letterheads, 1949-1962, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 60 - Routes, undated.

Description: Empty folder.

Drawer 2, folder 61 - Photocopies for presentation materials, undated.

Description: Contains a newsclipping for the Bainbridge (Ohio) Fall Festival of Leaves, 1984.

Drawer 2, folder 62 - Advertising slugs for 1960-1961 routes, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 63 - Christmas cards layout materials, undated.

Description: Includes "The Lion that Fooled Me" by Beatty clipping.

Drawer 2, folder 64 - Newspaper comics and clippings, 1983-1990, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 65 - Documentation on artifacts, 2003-2010, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 66 - Celebrity and big cat clippings, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 67 - Proofs and printing mockups for Beatty Museum, 1960, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 68 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus employment contracts, 1966-1968.

Drawer 2, folder 69 - Carnival and circus office supplies and contracts catalog, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 70 - Beatty computer picture, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 71 - Unsorted, 1954-2008, undated.

Sub-series 2: Correspondence Regarding Research

Drawer 2, folder 72 - Badal, Jack, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 73 - Connellsville, Pennsylvania, 1973.

Drawer 2, folder 74 - English, Pat, 1975.

Description: Correspondence regarding research into Pat English, who was in Beatty's training school in

1939 and probably ending in 1940. No documents written by English herself are present.

Drawer 2, folder 75 - Greensburg Tribune, 2 July 1932.

Drawer 2, folder 76 - New Haven Arena, New Haven, Connecticut, 1961.

Drawer 2, folder 77 - Smith, Roger L., 1972, 1980, 1989.

Description: Includes three pastel images of 1947 Clyde Beatty Circus by Smith.

Series 2: Manuscripts

Drawer 2, folder 78 - Sheet music, 1905, 1918, 1923, 1934, 1976, undated.

Description: Includes sheet music for the Big Cage, Clyde Beatty radio march, I can't Abide Clyde, Clyde

Beatty Grand Entry, Where is my boy Tonight, Circus Days in our One Horse Town, and Can You Tame

Wild Wimmen? [sic]. ? I Can't Abide Clyde and Clyde Beatty March written out by head of Beatty-Cole

Band Chuck Schlarbaum. I Can't Abide Clyde was written as a gag for phone promoter Ray Winder, who

gave it to collection creator Dave Price.

Drawer 2, folder 78a - Circus correspondence, letterheads, envelopes, 1922-1946, undated.

Description: Correspondence on letterheads for a variety of circuses. For correspondence to or from

Clyde Beatty personally, see folder 86.

Drawer 2, folder 78b - Circus correspondence, letterheads, envelopes, 1922-1946, undated.

Description: Correspondence on letterheads for a variety of circuses. For correspondence to or from

Clyde Beatty personally, see folder 86.

Drawer 2, folder 79 - Notebooks, 1924, undated.

Description: Wild Animals Subdued and Trained Animal Series notebooks with lion trainers on the cover.

Drawer 2, folder 80-81 - Show scrip books, 1928-1953.

Drawer 2, folder 82 - Clyde Beatty tickets, postcards, photos, 1931, undated.

Description: Includes a small amout of Harriet Beatty material.

Drawer 2, folder 83 - CFA (Circus Fans Association) roster, 1934-1939, 1941-1948.

Description: Include the various dates and locations of the Clyde Beatty Tents.

Drawer 2, folder 84 - CFA (Circus Fans Association) roster, 1949-1960.

Description: Include the various dates and locations of the Clyde Beatty Tents.

Drawer 2, folder 85 - Clyde Beatty Jungle Zoo, 1939, 1941, undated.

Drawer 2, folder 86 - Clyde Beatty signed correspondence, letterheads, envelopes, 1939-1964.

Drawer 2, folder 87 - Lithograph routes, 1941.

Description: Compiled by Francis Kitzman.

Drawer 2, folder 88 - Sideshow managers statement, 1948.

Drawer 2, folder 89 - Correspondence from Victor Robbins to Albert Glasser, The Big Cage sheet music

(stamped Vic Robbins, Bandmaster, Clyde Beatty Circus), picture of Robbins, 1951, undated.

Description: Victor Robbins was the bandmaster for the Clyde Beatty Circus.

Drawer 3, folder 90 - Ring of Fear revised final shooting script, 5 January 1954.

Drawer 3, folder 91 - Clyde Beatty Animal Act musical program, 1955.

Description: Hand-written on Mayflower Hotel stationery.

Drawer 3, folder 92 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic Railroad Circus employees tax witholding forms, 1950s.

Description: Blank forms.

Drawer 3, folder 93 - Bill poster routes, 1957.

Description: Compiled by Francis Kitzman.

Drawer 3, folder 94 - Clyde Beatty Circus commissary coupon book, 25 October 1958.

Drawer 3, folder 95 - Check stubs, 1961.

Drawer 3, files 96-97 - Employees' records, 1961-1965

Description: Includes Dave Price's notes in [first] folder.

Drawer 3, folder 98 - Paycheck stubs, 1973.

Drawer 3, folder 99 - John W. Schaum presents Circus Showcase for piano or organ also chord organ &

accordion, 1977.

Description: Sheet music of circus songs.

Drawer 3, folder 100 - Payroll ledger, 1979.

Drawer 3, folder 101-102 - Folder numbers 101-102 not used.

Drawer 3, folder 103 - Business forms, undated.

Description: Blank business forms, envelopes, and oversized envelopes.

Drawer 3, folder 104 - Celebrity quotes about Beatty, undated.

Drawer 3, folder 105 - Circus headquarters page, undated.

Description: Blank form with columns for Sells Floto Circus, John Robinson Circus, Hagenbeck-Wallace,

The Sparks Circus, Al G. Barnes Circus

Drawer 3, folder 106 - Press department folders, undated.

Description: Folders for press materials sent to news agencies ahead of performances. The "good news"

folder contains tickets, an insertion order form, radio requisition form, envelope, and letterhead, other

folders are empty.

Drawer 3, folder 107 - Tickets, business cards, Dixie cup, undated.

Description: Laminated and mounted on paper.

Series 3: Photographs

Sub-series 1: 8x10 Photographs

Drawer 3, folder 108 - Autographed photos, various dates.

Description: Photos autographed by Beatty or pre-printed with Beatty's signature as souvenirs. A photo

signed by Harriet Beatty picturing her with two elephants is also included.

Drawer 3, folder 109 - Circus photos, various dates.

Drawer 3, files 110-111 - Circus animal photos, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 112 - Cleveland Public Hall, 1957?

Description: Beatty appeared in the Grotto Circus at this venue several times.

Drawer 3, folder 113 - Clyde Beatty photos, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 114 - Clyde Beatty photos, 1903-1940.

Drawer 3, folder 115 - Clyde Beatty Zoo, Jungleland, Mural Sized Posters, and Clyde Beatty Circus,

various dates, 1970s.

Drawer 3, folder 116-117 - Fort Lauderdale, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 118 - Harriet Beatty, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 119 - Kaiser Safari and other vehicles, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 120 - Motion pictures, Africa Screams, various dates.

Drawer 3, files 121-122 - Motion pictures, Big Cage, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 123 - Motion pictures, Castle Films, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 124 - Motion pictures, Circus Days, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 125 - Motion pictures, Darkest Africa, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 126 - Motion pictures, Lost Jungle, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 127 - Motion pictures, Perils of the Jungle, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 128-129 - Motion pictures, Ring of Fear, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 130 - Posters, programs, comics, Bainbridge, Big Little Books, various dates.

Drawer 3, folder 131 - Promotional photos, various dates.

Description: Some signed by Beatty.

Sub-series 2: Photo scrapbooks

Photo scrapbooks

Drawer 3, folder 131b - Photo album A, undated.

Description: Images of Clyde Beatty's Jungleland and various films.

Drawer 3, folder 131c - Photo album B, 1959, undated.

Description: Many images from "Perils of the Jungle."

Drawer 3, folder 131d - Photo album with flower cover, 1933, undated.

Description: Beatty at various venues, other members of the circus, and trucks.

Drawer 3, folder 131e - Photo album with gold cover, undated.

Description: Images of posters.

Drawer 3, folder 131f - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus prints and negatives, 1970.

Drawer 3, folder 131g - Black binder, 1950, undated.

Description: Primarily 3x5 photos of Clyde Beatty Circus, trucks, performances, etc.

Drawer 3, folder 131h - Miscellaneous circus performers images, undated.

Description: Not necessarily related to Clyde Beatty.

Sub-series 3: 5x7 and smaller photographs

Box 4, folder 132 - Slides advertising The Big Cage and Darkest Africa, 1933, 1936.

Box 4, folder 133 - Pre-1940 Clyde Beatty, -1940.

Box 4, folder 134 - 1940-1945 and 1957 Clyde Beatty, 1940-1945.

Box 4, folder 135 - 5x7s, various dates.

Description: Includes postcards, postcards and photos of Fort Lauderdale

Box 4, folder 136 - Beatty and circus, various dates.

Description: Originally described as "Box X."

Box 5, folder 137 - Beatty and circus, various dates.

Description: Originally described as "Box 22."

Box 5, folder 138 - Billing, various dates.

Box 5, folder 139 - Previously framed smaller photos, various dates.

Box 5, folder 140 - Snapshots of equipment on the Beatty Railroad Show, various dates.

Box 5, folder 141 - Zoo ground photos, various dates.

Box 5, folder 142 - Posters, railroad cars, and trucks, various dates.

Description: On compact disc.

Box 5, folder 143 - Bob Cline Collection, various dates.

Description: On CD.

Box 5, folder 144 - Clyde Beatty, 1951-1952.

Description: On compact disc.

Series 4: Publications

Sub-series 1: Comics

Box 6, folder 145 - The Action-Packed Adventures of Clyde Beatty #1, October 1953.

Description: Three copies.

Box 6, folder 145 - Circus comics #1, Winter 1948-1949.

Box 6, folder 145 - Clyde Beatty #25, 1947.

Description: Spanish language.

Box 6, folder 145 - Clyde Beatty #46, October, 1948


Box 6, folder 146 - Clyde Beatty's African Jungle Book, 1956.

Description: Two copies.

Box 6, folder 146 - Clyde Beatty six panel comic, undated.

Box 6, folder 146 - Crackajack funnies #0 Malto-Meal giveaway, 1937.

Description: Two copies, includes unopened toy surprise.

Box 6, folder 147 - Crackajack funnies #3, August 1938.

Box 6, folder 147 - Crackajack funnies #4, September 1938.

Box 6, folder 147 - Crackajack funnies #5, October 1938.

Box 6, folder 147 - Crackajack funnies #6, November 1938.

Box 6, folder 148 - Crackajack funnies #7, December 1938.

Box 6, folder 148 - Crackajack funnies #8, January 1939.

Box 6, folder 148 - Crackajack funnies #10, April 1939.

Box 6, folder 148 - Crackajack funnies #12, June 1939.

Box 6, folder 149 - Crackajack funnies #13, July 1939.


Box 6, folder 149 - Crackajack funnies #15, September 1939.




Box 6, folder 150 - Crackajack funnies #20, February 1940.

Box 6, folder 150 - Crackajack funnies #21, March 1940.

Box 6, folder 151 - Crackajack funnies #22, April 1940.

Box 6, folder 151 - Crackajack funnies #23, May 1940.

Box 6, folder 151 - Crackajack funnies #35, May 1941.

Box 6, folder 151 - Crackajack funnies #36, June 1941.

Box 7, folder 152 - Crackajack funnies #37, July 1941.



Box 7, folder 153 - Crackajack funnies #41, undated.

Description: Photocopy of Clyde Beatty strip and color print of cover only.



Box 7, folder 154 - El Pato Donald y otras historietas #97, May 1946.

Description: Spanish language. Donald Duck and other cartoons.

Box 7, folder 154 - El Pato Donald y otras historietas #140, March 1947.

Description: Spanish language. Donald Duck and other cartoons.

Box 7, folder 154 - Jungle adventures #15, 1964.

Description: Reprint of Jungle comics #152.

Box 7, folder 154 - Jungle comics, undated.

Description: Lacks cover.

Box 7, folder 155 - Jungle comics #9, 1940.


Box 7, folder 155 - Jungle comics #118, October 1949.

Box 7, folder 155 - Jungle comics #119, November 1949.

Box 7, folder 155 - Jungle comics #121, January 1950.

Box 7, folder 155 - Jungle comics #122, February 1950.

Box 7, folder 156 - Jungle comics #123, March 1950.

Box 7, folder 156 - Jungle comics #126, June 1950.

Box 7, folder 156 - Jungle comics #127, July 1950.

Box 7, folder 156 - Jungle comics #128, August 1950.

Box 7, folder 156 - Jungle comics #129, September 1950.

Box 7, folder 157 - Jungle comics #131, November 1950.



Box 7, folder 157 - Jungle comics #139, July 1951.


Box 7, folder 158 - Jungle comics #144, December 1951.

Description: Lacks cover.

Box 7, folder 158 - Jungle comics #145, January 1952.



Box 7, folder 158 - Jungle comics #148, April 1952.

Box 7, folder 158 - Jungle comics #149, May 1952.

Box 8, folder 159 - Jungle comics #152, August 1952.

Box 8, folder 159 - Jungle comics #153, September 1953.


Box 8, folder 159 - Real fact comics #15, July-August 1948.

Box 8, folder 159 - Strange tales #104, January 1963.

Box 8, folder 160 - Super comics #49, June 1942.

Box 8, folder 160 - Super comics #50, July 1942.

Box 8, folder 160 - Super comics #51, August 1942.

Box 8, folder 160 - Super comics #52, September 1942.

Box 8, folder 161 - Super comics #53, October 1942.

Box 8, folder 161 - Super comics #55, December 1942.

Box 8, folder 161 - Super comics #56, January 1943.

Box 8, folder 161 - Super comics #58, March 1943.






Box 8, folder 162 - Super comics #66, November 1943.


Box 8, folder 163 - Super comics #68, January 1944.

Box 8, folder 163 - Super comics #69, February 1944.

Box 8, folder 163 - Super comics #70, March 1944.

Box 8, folder 164 - Super comics #71, April 1944.

Box 8, folder 164 - Super comics #72, May 1944.






Box 9, folder 165 - Super comics #78, November 1944.


Box 9, folder 165 - Super comics #80, January, 1945.

Box 9, folder 166 - Super comics #81, February, 1945.

Box 9, folder 166 - Super comics #82, March, 1945.

Box 9, folder 166 - Super comics #83, April, 1945.

Box 9, folder 166 - Super comics #84, May, 1945.

Box 9, folder 166 - Super comics #85, June, 1945.

Box 9, folder 167 - Super comics #86, July, 1945.

Box 9, folder 167 - Super comics #87, August, 1945.

Box 9, folder 167 - Super comics #88, September, 1945.

Box 9, folder 167 - Super comics #89, October, 1945.

Box 9, folder 167 - Super comics #90, November, 1945.

Box 9, folder 167 - Super comics #91, December, 1945.





Box 9, folder 168 - Super comics #96, May , 1946.


























Box 10, folder 174 - Coloring books

Box 10, folder 174 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus coloring book, 1978.



Box 10, folder 174 - Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. Circus clown alley coloring book, 1991.

Box 10, folder 174 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus coloring book, 1994.

Box 10, folder 174 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus we're serious about clowning coloring book, 1996.

Box 10, folder 174 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus we're serious about clowning coloring book, 1998.

Box 10, folder 174 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus coloring book, 2002.

Cabinet 11, folder 175 - Clyde Beatty Circus coloring book, undated.

Description: Oversize, three copies, clown, tiger, hippopotamus, lion cover.

Cabinet 11, folder 175 - Photo of clown holding up coloring book, undated.

Cabinet 11, folder 175 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus coloring book, undated.

Description: Oversize, rhinoceros, elephant, clown, and tiger cover.

Sub-series 2: Lobby cards

Cabinet 11, folder 176 - Africa screams, 1952.

Description: Also starring Abbott and Costello.

Cabinet 11, folder 177 - The big cage, 1933.

Cabinet 11, folder 178 - La cazadora de leones, undated.

Description: Spanish language material for "The lost jungle."

Cabinet 11, folder 179 - Circus days, 1923?

Cabinet 11, folder 180 - Darkest Africa, 1936.

Description: Later known as King of Jungleland.

Cabinet 11, folder 181 - The flying fontaines, 1959.

Description: Footage from Ring of Fear or Three Ring Circus used in this film.

Cabinet 11, folder 182 - King of Jungleland, 1948.

Description: Formerly known as Darkest Africa.

Cabinet 11, folder 183 - The lost jungle, 1934.

Cabinet 11, folder 184 - The lost jungle, 1934.

Cabinet 11, folder 185 - Perils of the jungle, 1953.

Cabinet 11, folder 186 - Ring of fear, 1954.

Sub-series 3: Newspapers

Cabinet 11, folder 187 - Full page newspapers and oversize articles, various dates.



Sub-series 4: Periodicals

Box 12, folder 190 - Advertising arts, January 1935.

Box 12, folder 190 - American Boy & Open Road, June 1954.

Box 12, folder190 - American Cavalcade, May 1937.

Box 12, folder190 - American History Illustrated, July, August 1990.

Box 12, folder 191 - The American Magazine, July 1932.

Box 12, folder191 - Argosy, 9 September 1933.

Box 12, folder 192 - Argosy, June 1947.

Box 12, folder 192 - Better Living, July-August 1970.

Box 12, folder 195 - The Billboard memo book, 1949.

Description: 4 x 5 inch blank memo book with image of the Beattys from cover of 14 May 1949 Billboard

magazine, two copies.

Box 12, folder 195 - The Black Fez, November 1970.

Box 12, folder 195 - Boy's Cinema, 27 May 1933.

Box 12, folder 195 - The Business Link, Spring 1990.

Box 12, folder 195 - The Catholic Boy, April 1955.

Box 12, folder 196 - Cavalier, February 1957.

Box 12, folder 196 - Children's Playmate, May 1955.


Box 12, folder 196 - The Circus Review, 10 September 1954.

Box 12, folder 196 - Cliffhanger, Spring 1983.

Box 12, folder 197 - Collector's Crosswords #191, 30 January 2012.

Description: Puzzle 77, 56 down clue is "Animal trainer Beatty."

Box 12, folder 199 - Coronet, June 1942.

Cabinet 11, folder 193 - The Billboard, 14 April 1934.

Description: Oversize.

Cabinet 11, folder 193 - The Billboard, 20 April 1935.


Cabinet 11, folder 193 - The Billboard, 21 May 1938.


Cabinet 11, folder 194 - The Billboard, 25 June 1938.


Cabinet 11, folder 194 - The Billboard, 29 November 1941.






Cabinet 11, folder 198 - Collier's, 6 August 1932.


Cabinet 11, folder 198 - Collier's, 24 September 1932.


Cabinet 11, folder 198 - Collier's, 28 April 1934.


Cabinet 11, folder 198 - Collier's, 2 July 1938.


Cabinet 11, folder 198 - Collier's, 10 September 1938.


Cabinet 11, folder 198 - Collier's, 7 April 1951.

Description: Oversize, 2 copies.

Cabinet 11, folder 203 - Fortune, August 1936.


Cabinet 11, folder 203 - Fortune, October 1938.


Cabinet 11, folder 205 - Holiday, July 1960.


Cabinet 11, folder 205 - Life, 22 July 1940.


Cabinet 11, folder 205 - Life, 13 March 1950.


Cabinet 11, folder 205 - Life, 30 July 1956.


Cabinet 11, folder 213 - The New York woman, 31 March 1937.


Cabinet 11, folder 213 - Pictorial review, March 1934.


Cabinet 11, folder 213 - The Saturday Evening Post, 20 June 1931.


Cabinet 11, folder 213 - The Saturday Evening Post, 11 February 1933.


Cabinet 11, folder 213 - The Saturday Evening Post, 24 September 1949.


Cabinet 11, folder 225 - SPOT, May 1941.


Cabinet 11, folder 225 - Travel, September 1933.


Cabinet 11, folder 225 - Ventura Views, 12 May 1949.


Cabinet 11, folder 225 - Yank, 20 October 1944.

Description: Oversize, Alaska edition.

Box 13, folder 200 - Detroit Masonic News, September 1922.

Box 13, folder 200 - The Elks Magazine, May, 1932.

Box 13, folder 200 - The Family Circle, 26 May 1933.

Box 13, folder 200 - The Family Circle, 15 June 1934.

Box 13, folder 201 - FHM, July 2000.

Description: Contains an interview with Dave Hoover of the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus.

Box 13, folder 201 - Field and Stream, February 1931.

Box 13, folder202 - Film Review, January 1955.

Box 13, folder 202 - Film Selects, 2 September 1933.


Box 13, folder 202 - Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Summer 1975.

Description: Bicentennial souvenir edition.

Box 13, folder 204 - The Goodyear Men Magazine, 1944.

Box 13, folder 204 - Greater Show World, June 1936.

Box 13, folder 204 - Greater Show World, July 1936.

Box 13, folder 204 - Greater Show World, January-February 1957.

Box 13, folder 204 - Hollywood, March 1933.

Box 13, folder 204 - Hollywood Posters V, 13 December 1933.

Description: Christie's East auction catalog.

Box 13, folder 204 - The Hollywood Reporter, 20 January 1933.

Box 13, folder 204 - Knight Templar, May 2003.

Box 13, folder 204 - Knight Templar, March 2004.

Box 13, folder 206 - Leland's Boston Garden auction catalog, 27 September 1996.

Box 13, folder 206 - Liberty, 19 November 1938.

Box 13, folder 206 - Life, 14 July 1921.

Description: Cover only.

Box 13, folder 206 - The Literary Digest, 24 January 1931.

Box 13, folder 206 - The Literary Digest, 24 March 1934.

Box 13, folder 206 - The Literary Digest, 16 January 1937.

Box 13, folder 206 - Mad, June 1965.

Box 13, folder 206 - Men, July 1954.

Box 13, folder 207 - Michigan History, March/April 1985.

Box 13, folder 207 - Midway Journal Illustrated, July, August, September 1997.

Box 13, folder 207 - Modern Digest, March 1947.

Box 13, folder 207 - Modern Mechanix and Inventions, September 1933.

Box 13, folder 207 - Modern Screen, June 1933.

Box 14, folder 208 - Modern Screen, August 1950.

Box 14, folder 208 - Modern Screen, August 1954.

Box 14, folder 208 - Motion Picture Herald, 14 December 1935.

Box 14, folder 209 - Motion Picture Herald, 14 November 1936.

Box 14, folder 209 - Movie Action Magazine, March 1936.

Box 14, folder 209 - Movie Classic, March 1933.

Box 14, folder 210 - Movie Life, October 1950.

Box 14, folder 210 - Movie Mirror, April 1933.

Box 14, folder 210 - Movie Spotlight, August 1949.

Box 14, folder 211 - New Mexico Magazine, April 1956.

Box 14, folder 211 - The New Movie Magazine, March 1933.

Box 14, folder 212 - The New Movie Magazine, April 1933.

Box 14, folder 212 - New Screen News, 24 September 1954.

Box 14, folder 212 - The New Yorker, 27 March 1937.

Box 14, folder 212 - Newsweek, 18 February 1963.

Box 14, folder 212 - Newsweek, 3 January 1966.

Box 14, folder 214 - The Ohio Historical Review, 1980.

Description: Volume 11, number 9.

Box 14, folder 214 - The Old Car Book, 1953.

Box 14, folder 214 - Pageant, October 1960.

Box 14, folder 214 - Pageant, September 1964.

Box 15, folder 215 - People today, 21 April 1954.

Box 15, folder 215 - Pets, September 1940.

Box 15, folder 215 - Photoplay, July 1932.

Box 15, folder 215 - Photoplay, March 1933.

Box 15, folder 216 - Photoplay, May 1933.

Box 15, folder 216 - Photoplay, August 1954.

Box 15, folder 216 - Physical Culture, September 1932.

Box 15, folder 217 - Physical Culture, August 1936.

Box 15, folder 217 - Physical Culture, May 1947.

Description: New Physical Culture magazine, two copies.

Box 15, folder 217 - Pic, February 1954.

Box 15, folder 218 - Picture Show, 4 November 1933.

Box 15, folder 218 - Popular Mechanics, October 1939.

Box 15, folder 219 - Popular Mechanics, February 1952.

Box 15, folder 219 - Popular Photography, June 1937.

Box 15, folder 220 - Popular Science, February 1952.

Box 15, folder 221 - Radio and Television Mirror, August 1948.

Box 15, folder 221 - Radio and Television Mirror, May 1951.

Box 15, folder 221 - Radio-TV Mirror, February 1953.

Box 15, folder 221 - Radio-TV Mirror, July 1954.

Box 16, folder 222 - Railroad, April 1956.

Box 16, folder 222 - Railroad, July 1975.

Box 16, folder 222 - Rangeland romances, November 1938.

Box 16, folder 223 - Remember When, August 1972.

Box 16, folder 223 - Saga, July 1965.

Box 16, folder 223 - Screen Thrills Illustrated, September 1962.

Box 16, folder 223 - Screen Thrills Illustrated, October 1963.

Box 16, folder 224 - Showmen's Trade Review, 8 June 1940.

Box 16, folder 224 - Showmen's Trade Review, 26 October 1940.

Box 16, folder 224 - Sportsman, July 1956.

Box 16, folder 224 - Studio Magazine, 1966 August

Box 16, folder 224 - Surfer, June-July 1976.

Box 16, folder 226 - Time, 13 April 1931.

Box 16, folder 226 - Time, 8 February 1932.



Box 16, folder 226 - Time, 25 September 1933.

Box 16, folder 226 - Time, 12 February 1934.


Box 16, folder 227 - Time, 17 June 1935.

Box 16, folder 227 - Time, 29 March 1937.

Box 16, folder 227 - Time, 3 May 1937.



Box 16, folder 228 - Time, 16 July 1951.


Box 16, folder 228 - Time, 30 July 1965.

Box 17, folder 229 - Timeline, July, August 2002.


Box 17, folder 229 - Trains, December 1955.

Box 17, folder 230 - True Adventures, August 1959.

Box 17, folder 230 - TV Guide, 25-31 January 1958.

Box 17, folder 230 - TV Screen, April 1951.

Box 17, folder 230 - Universal Weekly, 25 February 1933.

Box 17, folder 230 - Universal Weekly, 4 March 1933.

Box 17, folder 230 - USA Today, January 1982.

Box 17, folder 231 - The WAIF I.S.S. imperial ball, Los Angeles chapter program, 1957.

Box 17, folder 232 - Wheel, May 1938.

Box 17, folder 232 - The Wonderful World of Ohio, March 1969.

Box 17, folder 232 - Loose Magazine Articles, undated.

Sub-series 5: Programs

Cabinet 11, folder 233 - Howe's Great London Circus and Van Amburg's Trained Wild Animals, 1921.

Description: Oversize, program, includes sheet music.

Cabinet 11, folder 233 - Gollmar Brothers Circus and Trained Wild Animal Exhibition, 1922.

Description: Oversize, official program, includes sheet music.

Box 18, folder 234 - John Robinson's Circus, 1923.

Description: Program, same cover art as 1924 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus program cover.

Box 18, folder 234 - First Annual Shrine Hippodrome Circus (Los Angeles, California) under the auspices

Al Malaikah Temple A.A.O.N.M.S, 1930.

Description: Program.

Box 18, folder 234 - Shrine Circus (Detroit, Michigan), 1932.


Box 18, folder 234 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 1934.

Description: Official route.

Box 18, folder 234 - Al Sirat Grotto Circus (Cleveland, Ohio), 1935.

Description: Official program.

Box 18, folder 234 - Cole Brothers Circus and Clyde Beatty's Gigantic Trained Wild Animal Exhibition

(Chicago, Illinois), 1935?

Description: Magazine.

Box 18, folder 234 - Shrine Circus (Saint Paul, Minnesota), 1937.


Box 18, folder 234 - Tangier Temple Ninth Annual Shrine Circus (Omaha, Nebraska), 1938.


Box 18, folder 234 - Shrine Winter Circus (Chicago, Illinois), 1939.

Description: Souvenir program.



Box 18, folder 235 - Jaffa Temple presents Hamid-Morton Circus (Altoona, Pennsylvania), 1939.


Box 18, folder 235 - Hamid's Million Dollar Pier (Atlantic City, New Jersey), 1939.


Box 18, folder 235 - Boumi Temple Shrine presents Hamid-Morton Circus (Baltimore, Maryland), 1939.


Box 18, folder 235 - Lu Lu Temple Shrine Circus (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1939.


Box 18, folder 235 - Kalurah Temple Shrine Circus (Binghamton, New York), 1940.


Box 18, folder 235 - Jamestown Shrine Club presents Hamid-Morton Circus (Jamestown, New York),

1940.








Box 18, folder 236 - Indoor Circus, Saint Louis Relief Police Association, 1941.


Box 18, folder 237 - Indiana state fair, 1941.

Box 18, folder 237 - Shrine circus (Houston, Texas), 1942.

Box 18, folder 237 - Shrine circus (Washington, D.C.), 8-14 February 1943.

Box 18, folder 237 - Shrine circus (Buffalo, New York), 26 April-1 May 1943.

Box 18, folder 237 - Arabia temple annual shrine circus (Houston, Texas), 1943.

Description: 5 unnumbered pages version.


Description: 80 page version.

Box 18, folder 238 - Tripoli Temple presents Hamid-Morton All Star Shrine Circus (Milwaukee,

Wisconsin), 1943.


Box 18, folder 238 - Jaffa Temple proudly presents Hamid-Morton Circus with Clyde Beatty (Altoona,

Pennsylvania), 1943.


Box 18, folder 238 - 1944 Arabia temple annual shrine circus (Houston, Texas), 1944.


Box 18, folder 238 - 1945 Arabia temple annual shrine circus (Houston, Texas), 1945.


Box 18, folder 238 - Shrine circus (Detroit, Michigan), 1946.




Box 18, folder 239 - Moslah Temple Fourth Annual Shrine Circus (Fort Worth, Texas), 1946.


Box 18, folder 239 - Arabia Temple Shrine Circus (Houston, Texas), 1947.






Box 19, folder 240 - El Karubah temple annual shrine circus (Shreveport, Louisiana), 1948.




Box 19, folder 241 - Midian 13th Annual Shrine Circus (Wichita, Kansas), 1951.


Box 19, folder 241 - Arabia Temple Annual Shrine Circus (Houston, Texas), 1952.




Box 19, folder 241 - Clyde Beatty Presents His All New Gigantic Railroad Circus, 1953.

Description: Official program and daily magazine.

Box 19, folder 241 - Arabia Temple Shrine Circus (Houston, Texas), 1953.

















Box 19, folder 245 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus, 1966.

Description: Magazine and program.


Description: Magazine and program, "sensation of all time" cover.


Description: Magazine and program, "Captain Dave Hoover in person" cover.















Box 19, folder 245 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus, 1975

Description: Program, Lu Lu Temple 34th Annual Shrine Circus (Plymouth, Pennsylvania) cover.



Box 20, folder 246 - Moslem Temple A.A.O.N.M.S. presents their all new Shrine Circus (Sarasota,

Florida), 1977.


Box 20, folder 246 - YAARAB Temple A.A.O.N.M.S. presents their all new Shrine Circus (Atlanta,

Georgia), 1977.



Description: Souvenir program and magazine.








Description: Oversize, program, 2 copies.





Box 20, folder 246 - The Animal Affair Under the Big Top featuring Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus, 1983.






Box 20, folder 246 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus at Florida Atlantic University, 1984.





Description: Souvenir program and pictorial magazine.


Description: Souvenir program and pictorial magazine.

Box 20, folder 247 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus, 1988.







Description: Official program and magazine.


Description: Official program and magazine.




Description: Program and magazine.





















Sub-series 6: Published books

Authored or co-authored by Clyde Beatty

The Big Cage by Clyde Beatty with Edward Anthony, 1933.

Description: Hardcover, signed by S.R. Anthony.


Description: Hardcover, first printing.


Description: Hardcover, second printing.


Description: Hardcover, dust jacket, first printing.


Description: Hardcover.

Facing the Big Cats by Clyde Batty with Edward Anthony, 1965.


Facing the Big Cats by Clyde Beatty with Edward Anthony, 1965.

Description: Hardcover, dust jacket.

Facing the Big Cats by Clyde Beatty with Edward Anthony, 1965.

Description: Hardcover, dust jacket, signed by "Ed Anthony."

How to Put on Your Own Circus by Clyde Beatty, 1935.

Description: Softcover, compliments of the Quaker Oats Company.

Jungle Performers by Clyde Beatty and Earl Wilson, 1941.

Description: First edition, hardcover.


Description: First edition, hardcover, dust jacket, signed.


Description: Third edition, hardcover.


Description: Hardcover, second printing.


Description: First edition, signed by "Roger Smith."

Jungle Performers by Clyde Beatty, 1941.

Description: Softcover, condensed booklet published by Coronet.

Meine Grosse Raubtierschau by Clyde Beatty and Edward Anthony, 1968.

Description: Hardcover, German language edition of Facing the Big Cats?

Big cats

Jungle for Sale by Henry Trefflich and Edward Anthony, 1967.

Description: Hardcover, dust jacket, first edition.

Lion and Tiger Stories, by Edward W. Dolch and Marguerite P. Dolch, 1957.


Perils of the Jungle by Edward S. Ellis, 1900.


Teeth Teeth Teeth by Sidney Garfield, 1969.


The Cats in Action by Walter J. Wilwerding, 196?

Description: Softcover.

The Lion by E.M. Hull, 1928.


They Never Talk Back by Henry Trefflich, 1954.


Tigers, Trainers, and Dancing Whales by Lace Kendall, 1968.


Wild Animals as I Know Them by Clara E. Knecht, 1933.


Wild Tigers & Tame Fleas by Bill Ballantine, 1958.


Wild Tigers & Tame Fleas by Bill Ballantine, 1958.


Big Little Books

Clyde Beatty: Daredevil Lion and Tiger Tamer, 1939.

Description: Hardcover. Two copies.

Lions and Tigers with Clyde Beatty, 1934.

Description: Hardcover. Two copies. Pictures from "The Big Cage." Three copies.

The Lost Jungle, 1936.

Description: Hardcover. Two copies. Adapted from the movie "The lost jungle."

The Lost Jungle, 1936.

Description: Softcover. Two copies. Adapted from the movie "The lost jungle."

The Steel Arena, 1936.

Description: Hardcover. Two copies. Adapted from the movie "The lost jungle."

The Steel Arena, 1936.

Description: Softcover. Two copies. Adapted from the movie "The lost jungle."

The Tiger Lady: the Life of Mabel Stark, Noted Animal Trainer, 1935.


Biographical

The Best of my Life: Autobiographies in Large Print Edited by Judith Leet, 1987.


Clyde Beatty, Boy Animal Trainer by Katharine Wilkie, 1968.










The Edge of Danger Collected by Margaret C. Scoggin, 1963.


The Edge of Danger Collected by Margaret C. Scoggin, 1953.


Ernest Hemingway: A Life story by Carlos Baker, 1969.


Five Minute Biographies by Dale Carnegie, 1949.






Incredible Athletic Feats by Jim Benagh, 1970.


Lives of Danger and Daring by Hubert V. Coryell and Vansant Coryell, 1936.


Man of the House by Tip O'Neill with William Novak, 1987.


Men of Danger by Lowell Thomas, 1936.


Pageant of Adventure by Lowell Thomas, 1940.

Description: Hardcover, signed by L.T.

People are Funny by Art Linkletter, 1947.


People are Funny by Art Linkletter, 1960.


Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Michigan, 1956


Rattling Yours, Snake King by W.A. King Jr., 1964.


Red Skelton by Arthur Marx, 1979.


Richard Carvell by Winston Churchill, 1912.

Description: Hardcover, "Mr. Clyde Beatty, from Ida."

The Senator and the Runaway Teenager in the Great Depression by Duval A. Edwards, 1999.


This is Where I Came in by Edward Anthony, 1960.


Variety photoplays by Edward Field, 1967.

Description: Softcover, first printing.

Children's and youth books

The Circus Comes to Town by Veronica S. Hutchinson, 1932.


Circus Days and what Goes on Back of the Big Top by Bill Rittase and Tom Maloney, 1934.


Circus Heroes and Heroines by Rhina Kirk, 1972.


Davey's Adventures with the Clyde Beatty Circus by Jane Beatty with Ann Pinchot, 1965.


Exploring New Trails by Paul R. Spencer and Lois Duffin Fritschler, 1945.


Here Comes the Circus by Peter Verney, 1978.


On Jungle Trails by Frank Buck, 1972.


The Junior Classics, volume 7, the Animal Book, edited by Mabel Williams, 1938.


The New Junior Classics, the Animal Book, edited by Mabel Williams, 1938?


The Young American Basic Reading Program Level 15 by Leo Fay and Myrion L. Coulter, 1972.

Description: Hardcover, United States Air Force dust jacket.

Circus

Beckmann & Gerety World's Best Shows by Bob Goldsack, undated.

Description: Unbound, self-published.

Circus Days by Jill Freedman, 1975.


The Cole Bros. Circus from Rochester, Indiana by Francis E. Sanders, 1986.


A History of the Shrine Circus by John H. McConnell, 1998.

Description: Hardcover, dust jacket, signed.

Johnny's Here: the History of the Johnny J. Jones Expositions by Bob Goldsack, 1990.

Description: Softcover, first edition.

Life is a Circus by Shirley Carroll O'Connor, 1999.


The Mighty Hippodrome by Normal Clarke, 1968.


Step Right Up by LaVann G. Hoh and William H. Rough, 1990.


Winter Circus by Peggy Dern, 1943.


Film, serials, radio, television, and fiction

The Abbott and Costello book by Jim Mulholland, 1975?


Boy's cinema annual, 1935.


The Film Buff's Checklist by D. Richard Baer, 1979.

Description: Hardcover, first edition.

The Film Buff's Checklist by D. Richard Baer, 1979.


Forgive us our Press Passes by Elaine Shepard, 1962.


Forgotten Horrors by George E. Turner and Michael H. Price, 1979.


The Great Movie Serials by Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut, 1972.


The Great Television Race by Joseph H. Udelson, 1989.


Hatari by Michael Milner, 1962.

Description: Softcover, first printing.

Howard Hawks Presents Hatari by Howard Hawks, 1962?


It's That Time Again: the New Stories of Old Time Radio by Ben Ohmart, 2002.


The Lion Tamer by Carroll E. Robb, 1925.


Lou's on First by Chris Costello, 1981.


Necropolis by Basil Copper, 1981.


Next Time Drive off the Cliff by Gene Fernett, 1968.

Description: Hardcover, dust jacket, limited printing.

A Really Big Show by Claudia Falkenburg and Andrew Solt, 1992.


Serial Movie Posters by Bruce Hershenson and Richard Allen, 1999.

Description: Softcover. Two copies.

Shooting Star by Maurice Zolotow, 1979.


A Thousand Sundays by Jerry Bowles, 1980.


To be Continued, 1972.


Tune in Yesterday by John Dunning, 1976.


The Universal Story by Clive Hirschhorn, 1983.


The Vanishing Legion by Jon Tuska, 1989.


Geographical

Army Air Forces Flying Training Command: Deming Army Air Field by Captain Charles D. Baylis, 1943.


Florida Sports, Recreation and Points of Interest by Florida Department of Agriculture, 1940?


Florida, a Guide to the Southernmost State by WPA, 1939.


The Green Felt Jungle by Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris, 1963.






Miami, Florida Telephone Directory, 1940.


So this is Florida by Frank Parker Stockbridge and John Holiday Perry, 1938.


U.S. One: Maine to Florida by Works Progress Administration, 1938.


Pictorial works

The Circus by Klara E. Knecht, 1934.


The Circus Book by Klara E. Knecth, 1934.


Detroit's Masonic Temple by Alex Lundberg and Greg Kowalski, 2006.


Fort Lauderdale, by Susan Gillis and Daniel T. Hobby, 2001.


Images From the World Between by Donna Gustafson, 2001.


John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood by Joseph S. Czestochowski, 1981.


John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America by Laurence E. Schmeckebier, 1943.


Jungleland by Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt, 2011.


Newhall by Maggi Perkins, 2010.


Peru: Circus Capital of the World by Kreig A. Adkins, 2009.


A Pictorial History of the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus by Bob Goldsack, 2004.

Description: Softcover, signed by Bob Goldsack, first edition.

Ray Dirgo's Circus Sketchbook by Ray Dirgo, 1981.

Description: Softcover, signed by Ray Dirgo.

Rochester by Shirely Willard, 2010.


Reference

Britannica Book of the Year, 1957.


Britannica Book of the Year, 1966.


Collier's 1966 Year Book, 1966.


Collier's Encyclopedia 1957 Year Book, 1957.


The 1966 Compton Yearbook, 1966.


Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-index volume 4, 1974.


Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-index volume 6, 1974.


Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Fact-index, 1950.






Transportation

The Graham Legacy: Graham-Paige to 1932 by Michael E. Keller, 2000.

Description: Hardcover, dust jacket. Beatty played for Graham-Paige in their January 3, 1925 convention

in the unfinished Detroit Shrine Temple in Detroit, Michigan, where his tigress "Gracie" escaped the

night before. Beatty was awakened so he could catch and re-cage the tiger.

Home on the Road by Roger B. White, 2000.


Sub-series 7: Route cards

Box 20, folder 249 - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1958.

Description: Number 1.


Description: Number 3-5.










Description: Unnumbered, 17 May-14 June.


Description: Number 1-10, 12.

Box 20, folder 249 - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, 1964.

Description: Number 3.

Sub-series 8: Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings

Box 25, folder 250 - Newsclippings, 1933-1936, undated.

Box 25, folder 251 - Newsclippings, 1947.

Box 25, folder 252 - "Dressing Room Gossip" by Dick Anderson newsclippings, 1947.

Box 25, folder 253 - "Dressing Room Gossip" by Dick Anderson newsclippings, 1948.

Box 25, folder 254 - Clyde Beatty death and obituary newsclippings and correspondence, 1965.

Box 25, folder 255 - Newsclippings, undated.

Box 25, folder 256 - Newsclippings, magazine clippings, photos, undated.

Description: From over-size scrapbook pages.

Box 25, folder 257 - Loose newsclippings, magazine clippings, photos, undated.

Description: Contains photos of Clyde Beatty Museum.

Sub-series 9: Souvenir postcards with maps and newsclippings

Box 26, folder 258 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1929, 1947-1948, 1958, undated.

Description: Souvenir postcards.

Box 26, folder 258 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1929, 1947-1948, 1958, undated.


Box 26, folder 258 - California, 1915, undated.

Description: Glendale, Los Angeles, Venice California souvenir postcards.

Box 26, folder 258 - Chicago, Illinois, 1937, 1950, undated.

Description: Souvenir postcards and road map.

Box 26, folder 259 - Cleveland, Ohio, 1928, 1949, undated.

Description: Souvenir postcards and Ohio highway map.

Box 26, folder 259 - Cleveland, Ohio, 1928, 1949, undated.

Description: Souvenir postcards and Ohio highway map.

Box 26, folder 259 - Denver, Colorado, 1964.

Description: Lobby of the Brown Palace Hotel.

Box 26, folder 259 - Detroit, Michigan, 1936, undated.


Box 26, folder 260 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1939, 1945, 1950, 1955, undated.

Description: Souvenir postcards, visitor's bureau pamphlets, and state highway map.

Box 26, folder 260 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1939, 1945, 1950, 1955, undated.

Description: Souvenir postcards, visitors bureau pamphlets, and state highway map.

Box 26, folder 260 - Kansas City, Missouri, 1951.


Box 26, folder 260 - Montgomery, Alabama, undated.


Box 26, folder 260 - Shreveport, Louisiana, 1937.


Box 26, folder 260 - U.S. Highway 1 map, 1934.

Description: Raleigh, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.

Box 26, folder 261 - Newsclippings, undated.

Description: Includes a newspaper ad for Beatty's 1936 vaudeville show in Cleveland, Ohio. Many

clippings have postcards of the venue described in the clipping.

Series 5: Audio and Video

Sub-series 1: Audio

Cassette

Shelf 27 - The Clyde Beatty radio show, 1950-1952, undated.

Description: Episode #11 Dangerous Ambition, #12 Contest of Danger, #17 Never Trust a Gilly, #18

Zombie, #25 The Ghost Cat of Guatemala, #26 The King of Clowns. Sponsored by Kelloggs.

Compact Disc

Shelf 27 - The Clyde Beatty Show, undated.

Description: Old Time Radio Memories, 46 audio files in MP3 format and 1 show program log in text

format.

Shelf 27 - Clyde Beatty Collection, undated.

Description: Old Time Radio Shows, 46 audio files in MP3 format.

Song roll

Shelf 27 - Where is my wandering boy tonight, undated. Clyde Beatty's sister Mabel reported to

collection creator Dave Price that after Beatty left home their mother would play this song on the player

piano and weep for Clyde.

Description: By Reverend R.E. Lowry, played by Walter Esberger.

Tape on reel

Shelf 27 - Clyde Beatty radio show, 1950-1952, 1947-1948, 1953, undated.

Description: Night editor episode #34 Deep Roots, 35 One in a Thousand, Last Man Out episode 6

December 1953 Communist Teachers, Clyde Beatty episode 33 Daniel in the Lion's Den, 34 Kodiak Killer,

39 The Flying Polito's, 40 The Bakuiri Bravery, 41 Burneo Devil Beast, 42 Canine Courage, 43 Jungle

Medico, 44 Lost City, 45 Mystery Island, 52 Tiger Town, Your Song & Mine 21 April 1948 First Show,

Bobby Doyle Sings 30 June 1947.

Shelf 27 - Episode 9, Beauty and the Beast, 1950.

Description: Radio broadcast reel.

Shelf 27 - Episode 40, Baquiri Bravery, 1950.


Shelf 27 - Episode 41, Borneo Devil Beast, 1950.


Shelf 27 - Episode 42, Canine Courage, 1950.


Shelf 27 - Episode 44, Lost City, 1950.


Shelf 27 - Episode 47, Oklahoma Hoax, 1950.


Vinyl records

Shelf 27 - 16" radio show records, 1950.

Description: Fifteen 16" records with radio show episodes #5 Cage Boy (half of episode is missing), #6

Man Eater of Burma(half of episode is missing), #39 Flying Politos, #40 Baquiri Bravery, #41 Borneo Devil

Beast, #42 Canine Courage, #43 Jungle Medico, #44 Lost City, #45 Mystery Island, #46 Mombo's Strange

Pet, #47 Oklahoma Hoax, #48 Arabia Nightmare, #49 Hold That Tiger, #50 In Search of a Myth, #51

Adventure to Australia. Two halves of an episode are on separate records, to allow for seamless

switching from part 1 to part 2 during radio play.

Shelf 27 - Clyde Beattie by Humphrey & the Dumptrucks, 1971.

Description: 45 RPM vinyl single.

Shelf 27 - Six days of paper ladies by Humphrey and the Dumptrucks, 1971.

Description: 33 RPM album with "Clyde Beatty" track. 2 copies.

Shelf 27 - The Fantastic Film Music of Albert Glasser volume 1, 1978.

Description: 33 RPM album with Cisco Kid, Big Town, the Boy and the Pirates, the Amazing Colossal Man,

the Buckskin Lady, Beginning of the End, the Cyclops, and Top of the World tracks. Glasser composed a

score for the Clyde Beatty radio show.

Shelf 27 - Clyde Beatty Circus interview, undated.

Description: 33 RPM album, side A interview Mr. Beatty, side B interview Mrs. Beatty.

Shelf 27 - Kally-Ope Genuine Calliope Music by Barbara Taggart, undated.

Description: 33 RPM album with "Clyde Beatty Grand Entry" track.

Sub-series 2: Video

8mm and 16mm Films

Description: These films have been moved to cold storage at the ISU Archives to prevent deterioration.

Special Collections may not be able to provide access to these films, please contact the Special

Collections Librarian for further information.

Animal Parade, 1920s.

Bat Men of Africa, 1966.

The Big Cage, 1933.

Cat College, 1940.

Circus Animals, undated.

Circus Train to Milwaukee, 1966.

Clyde Beatty Circus, Madison Square Gardens, 1937.

Clyde Beatty Circus, circa 1946.

Clyde Beatty Circus, 1955.

Clyde Beatty Circus, 1956.

Clyde Beatty Circus, 10 May 1956.

Clyde Beatty Circus training film, undated.

Clyde Beatty's Animal Thrills, 1943.

Frank Buck Jungle Menace, 1937.

Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 1930-1935.

Here Comes the Circus, 1946.

Description: Documentary short.

Jungleland, 1941.

Knockout Thrills, undated.

DVD

Gritos de Africa, 1949.

Description: Spanish language version of Africa Screams.

Home movie memories, undated.

Lost jungle chapters 1-6, 1934.

Lost jungle chapters 7-12, 1934.

Ring of Fear, 1954.

Laserdisc

Darkest Africa, 1992.

VHS

Africa Screams, 1949.

Africa Screams, 1949.

Beatty/Cole 1930s and 1937 indoor, undated.

Big Cats of the Big Top, 1987.

Captive Wild Woman, 1943.

Description: Same film as Jungle Woman.

Clyde Beatty Circus, 1960-1977.

Clyde Beatty on the Ed Sullivan Show, undated.

Clyde Beatty Super Collection, undated.

Description: "Rare, lost films plus Pete Smith Cat College newsreels and home movies."

Clyde Beatty; Detroit Shrine circus; Ford news; Lost Jungle reference, undated.

Cole Bros. 1940-1946 plus Clyde Beatty 1946 Railroad Circus, undated.

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control, 1996.

Jimmy James Historic Video 10, 2005.

Jungle Woman, 1944.

Description: Same film as Captive wild woman.

King of Jungleland, undated.

Description: 2 tapes. Formerly titled "Darkest Africa." 15 chapter serial.

Lost Jungle, undated.

Description: 12 chapters, part 1.

Lost Jungle, undated.

Description: 12 chapters, part 2.

Lost Jungle part 1, undated.

Lost Jungle part 2, undated.

Mike Wallace interview with Clyde Beatty, 9 April 1959.

Summer of '52, undated.

Description: 2 copies. Clyde Beatty circus 1952 summer season.

The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, undated.

Series 6: Artifacts

Sub-series 1: Apparel

Box 29 - Fez, Al Sirat

Box 29 - Fez, Moslem

Description: Sponsor of the winter (usually February) circus. Beatty was also a member.

Box 29 - Fez, Shrine Circus

Description: Two. Sponsor of the winter (usually February) circus. Beatty was also a member.

Box 29 - Hat, Clyde Beatty exhibit

Description: Trucker style hat.

Box 29 - Hat, Clyde Beatty Jr.

Description: Four baseball style hats in red (2), black (1), and blue (1).

Box 29 - Pith helmet, mesh

Description: Three.

Box 29 - Pith helmet, plastic

Box 29 - Pith helmet with animal trainer logo

Box 29 - Pith helmet with St. Louis Zoo trainer logo

Box 29 - Shirt, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Description: White t-shirt with big cats on front.

Box 29 - Sweatshirt with "Clyde Beatty Museum" and lion image on front

Description: Blue, made by Mary Jane Price for Dave Price.

Box 29 - Towel

Description: White with lion image.

Sub-series 2: Figurines and statues

Box 30 - Clyde Beatty 7-inch figurines, 1940s.

Description: Seven unpainted figurines, issued by the Chicago Tribune, produced by Professional Art

Products.

Box 30 - Clyde Beatty 7-inch figurine, 1940s.

Description: Painted figurine, issued by the Chicago Tribune, produced by Professional Art Products.

Box 30 - Small elephant stepping on tiger figurine, undated.

Box 30 - Elephant bank, undated.

Box 30 - Lion figurines, undated.

Description: Seven figurines.

Box 30 - Lion and tiger matching statues, undated.

Description: Made from crushed bone.

Box 30 - Lion picture frame with Clyde Beatty image, undated.

Box 30 - Lion with trainer in safari clothing in front of children and man in fez, 1983.

Description: Porcelain figure.

Box 30 - Phineas T. Barnum bust, 1976.

Box 30 - Polar bears, undated.

Description: 2 figurines.

Box 30 - Tiger and female trainer, undated.

Description: 1 figurine.

Sub-series 3: Printing hardware

Box 31 - Clyde Beatty's corporate seal, national circus corporation, 10 March 1949.

Box 31 - Rubber stamps used on the Clyde Beatty Circus Advance Department, undated.

Description: Donated to the Clyde Beatty Museum by Francis Kitzman.

Box 31, 32 - Printing blocks and mats, undated.

Cabinet 11 - Over-sized woodcuts

Description: Two woodcuts fastened together, top is "CLYDE BEATTY" and bottom is image of tiger.

Sub-series 4: Show and personal items

Box 33 - Ashtray with Eddie Stinson and face of big cat on top, undated.

Description: "From the Beatty's" on bottom.

Box 33 - Bottle, 7-Up

Description: Glass bottle, see Dave's email.

Box 33 - Bottle, Circle V Beverages


Box 33 - Bottle, Coca-Cola


Box 33 - Boxes for promotional material, undated.

Description: Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. World's Largest Circus, blue and white.

Box 33 - Brick from Rochester, Indiana office building of Cole Bros Circus, undated.

Box 33 - Briefcase owned by press agent Elsie Kitzman, 1957, undated.

Description: Briefcase used by Kitzman when calling on newspapers, includes 1957 press materials

(mats, Kitzman business cards, two books of 1956 complimentary tickets, and one folder of assorted

items).

Box 33 - Business cards for Clyde Beatty Circus, Francis Kitsman, undated.

Box 33 - Cups, undated.

Description: Clyde-Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus small round cups.

Box 33 - Mug, undated.

Description: Gunther Gebel-Williams Farewell Tour, RBBB plastic mug with man holding leopard on his

shoulders.

Box 33 - Popcorn box, undated.

Description: Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Combined Circus, red and white box.

Box 33 - Spoon with Bainbridge 1903 engraved on it, undated.

Box 34 - Boots, 1954.

Description: Beatty's last high top boots. Drawer 1, folder 33 - Research file, 1954 includes a laundry

ticket found stuffed into the boots. Beatty's car #61 and name appear on the ticket. Boots stuffed with

pages from the Phoenix Gazette dated March 16, 1954, likely placed there after the Tuscon, Arizona

show which opened March 20, 1954.

Box 34 - Seat cushion, undated.

Description: John Robinson's Circus.

Box 35 - Pennants, undated.

Description: Small and medium.

Box 35 - Pennants, undated.

Description: Large (currently on top of box of other pennants)

Vault - Stands, undated.

Description: Two metal stands for big cats, one shortened.

Cabinet 11 - Tiger skin, undated.

Cabinet 11 - Whips

Description: White whip similar to those used by Beatty in his performance. Bullwhip included for

display purposes although Beatty never used that style of whip.

Loft - Bentwood chairs, undated.

Description: Three legged chairs, the silver and stained chairs used by Beatty in various acts.

Sub-series 5: Signage

Box 36 - Clyde Beatty metal sign

Description: License plate sized.

Box 36 - Clyde Beatty, 1903-1965 plate, undated.

Description: Metal plate.

Box 36 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus license plate, undated.

Box 36 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Combined Circus license plate, undated.

Box 36 - Display stand with Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus poster replica, undated.

Box 36 - Executive secretary Edna Antes, undated.

Description: Wooden sign, with large pennants for now.

Box 36 - Wagon plate for Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus Inc., undated.

Description: Documents an early, rarely used name for the circus.

Sub-series 6: Toys, Models, Films, Souvenirs

Box 36 - Big jungle cats/the circus two-sided jigsaw puzzle, undated.

Description: Over 500 pieces, one side shows several large cats, the other shows Beatty in safari outfit in

cage with many large cats.

Box 36 - Buttons, 1930s-1940s.

Description: 10 buttons, 1 is for Clyde Beatty Jr. surfboards.

Box 36 - Buttons, undated.

Description: 14 Clyde Beatty buttons, 1 RBBB Circus button, 2 Shoemaker buttons.

Box 36 - Captain Beatty's Animal Circus film strip, undated.

Description: Flat in plastic.

Box 36 - Clyde Beatty's Animal Thrills box, undated.

Description: 16mm 4x4" box, no film.

Box 36 - Clyde Beatty Tent playing cards and scorebook, undated.

Description: In box.

Box 36 - Coasters from Lloyd David Gift Shop Clyde Beatty's Jungleland, undated.

Description: Seven.

Box 36 - Color transfer, Detroit Zoo, undated.

Description: Shows train, polar bears, monkey on unicycle.

Box 36 - Famous Komics [sic] in movie style box/display stand, 1940s.

Description: Includes "Cine' vue" viewer, and Dick Tracy, Don Winslow of the Navy, The Gumps, Orphan

Annie, Superman, and Terry & the Pirates films.

Box 36 - Film Funnies, 1933.

Description: 1 large box with 9 films, 5 films in smaller boxes.

Box 36 - Film strips for movie projector gun, 1937.

Box 36 - Fold-a-Way toys, Clyde Beatty and his wild animal act, 1935.

Description: In original mailer envelopes, one has toys punched out.

Box 36 - Frank Buck children's costume, 1982.

Description: Costume and ventilated mask.

Box 36 - Hingees toys, 1944.

Description: Not assembled, includes Smoky Stover, Terry and the Pirates, Bringing up Father, Little

Orphan Annie, Clyde Beatty, Popeye, Mickey Mouse, and Katzenjammer Kids.

Box 36 - Komic Kamera [sic], undated.

Description: Two cameras.

Box 36 - Lenticular images produced by Kellogg's Pep cereal, 1951.

Description: Advertised as flickers or flashers, 15 items.

Box 36 - Lion trainer in safari outfit with whip and lion, undated.

Description: Three inch tall/long plastic toys.

Box 38 - Quaker Crackles Premium "Clyde Beatty and his wild animal act" diorama, 1935.

Description: Assembled.

Box 38 - Hingees toy with Clyde Beatty with pistol and lion with front paws on stand, 1944.

Description: Assembled.

Box 37 - Lunch box, undated.

Description: Metal lunch box with image of Clyde Beatty with chair and whip, and lion on pedestal.

Box 37 - Matchbooks, undated.

Description: Deming Air Field and Deming, New Mexico (Coors and Bel-Air Hotel)

Box 37 - Model with nodding head

Box 37 - New York Hippodrome souvenir, 1913.

Description: Wagon shaped cutout with lions.

Box 37 - New York Hippodrome souvenir, 1913.

Description: Wagon shaped cutout with tigers.

Box 37 - North Station Boston Garden refrigerator magnet, undated.

Box 37 - Patches, undated.

Description: Deming, New Mexico AAF Bombardier School, Clyde Beatty with lion and tiger.

Box 37 - Quaker Crackles Premium "Clyde Beatty and his wild animal act" diorama set and miscellaneous

cutouts, 1935.

Description: Unassembled, does not include Beatty or lion cutouts.

Box 37 - Tru-vue viewer and 26 films, 1930s.

Box 37 - Uncles Sam's Projector with Duracolor film, 1934.

Description: Film is Clyde Beatty "Training wild animals."

Cabinet 11 - Painting on wood, undated.

Description: Painting of lion trainer with whip and pistol, elephants, clowns, small dog, and mule or

donkey. Note to "see 1935 vertical file" on back. IN CABINET WITH NEWSPAPER FILES.

Box 39 - Sculptor of sidewalk with fence and "CIRCUS BEATTY" and clown poster, undated.

Description: Metal.

Sub-series 7: Small display items

Box 40 - Al Sirrat Grotto (Cleveland) pendant, undated.

Description: Red, white, and blue ribbon.

Box 40 - Business card, undated.

Description: Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus.

Box 40 - Buttons, undated.

Description: Beatty's face on blue background and Beatty holding big cat cub.

Box 40 - Claw from Brutus, 25 May 1964.

Description: Gift of Roger Smith.

Box 40 - Cowboy toy pistol and holster with button, 1936.

Box 40 - "Dog tag" with "Dave Price, Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros. Circus, Deland, Florida", undated.

Box 40 - Film funnies boxes, undated.

Description: Three have films, one has directions.

Box 40 - Flicker image of Clyde Beatty, 1951.

Description: Kellogg's Pep cereal giveaway.

Box 40 - Lighter with "Clyde Beatty Tent, Miami," 1955.

Description: Circus Saints and Sinners lighter.

Box 40 - Medallion, New Masonic Temple, Detroit, 18 September 1922.

Box 40 - Patches, undated.

Description: Clyde Beatty Tent 138, Canton, Ohio, Circus Fan Association and Detroit, Toledo, Ironton

Railroad patches.

Box 40 - Printing plate for "free circus gifts," undated.

Description: Metal.

Box 40 - Ring (pink) with Clyde Beatty image on orange background, 1951.

Description: Kellogg's Pep cereal giveaway.

Box 40 - Ring with lion head, 1935.

Description: Quaker Crackels promotional item.

Box 40 - Spent .38 caliber blanks used by Beatty, 1964.


Box 40 - Watch, 1935.

Description: New Haven Clock Company, back has image of Beatty with whip and chair and lion on a

pedestal.

Box 40 - Whip popper used by Beatty, 1964.


Box 41 - Claw and tooth from Nero, spent .38 caliber shell casing, undated.

Box 41 - Commissary coupon book, undated.

Box 41 - Cowboy toy pistol and holster, undated.

Box 41 - Elk's Club watch fob, undated.

Description: Elk's tooth watch fob.

Box 41 - Holster with "Souvenir of the circus" in silver, undated.

Box 41 - Medallion, Clyde Beatty Circus, Dave Price, undated.

Box 41 - Picture of Beatty with whip and chair, undated.

Box 41 - Ribbon, undated.

Description: "Welcome Clyde Beatty Circus-Pacific Coast Showmen's Association."

Box 41 - Ring with lion head, 1935.

Description: Two rings in small jewelry case.

Box 41 - State Fair souvenir pin, undated.

Description: Yellow and red ribbon.

Series 7: Posters and Wall Art

Sub-series 1: Posters

Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros

Folder 1 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros

Description: Window Card, Plastic / text only











Cole Bros Circus

Folder 2 - Cole Bros Circus










Cole Bros Circus with Clyde Beatty and Ken Maynard

Description: Window Card






Description: Window Card, Text only

Folder 3 - Clyde Beatty-Russell Bros. Circus, 1944














Clyde Beatty Circus

Folder 4 - Clyde Beatty Circus, 1957

Description: Window Card, Massachusetts

Folder 4 - Clyde Beatty Circus





















Description: Window Card, Los Angeles

Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus

Folder 5 - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1946.

Description: Stand up

Folder 5 - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus


Folder 5 - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1950.












Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus

Folder 6 - Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus










Clyde Beatty and His Gigantic Railroad Circus

Folder 7 - Clyde Beatty and His Gigantic Railroad Circus














Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus

Folder 8 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus


























Folder 8 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus, 2003


Folder 8 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus, 2003





Description: Window Card, on paper

Cole Bros Circus

Folder 9 - Cole Bros Circus, 1935








Cole Bros World's Largest Circus under the Big Top

Folder 10 - Cole Bros World's Largest Circus Under the Big Top






Cole Bros Circus of the Stars

Folder 11 - Cole Bros Circus of the Stars
















Folder 12 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Combined 3-Ring Circus


Folder 12 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus







Description: Window Card, Ray Dirgo artwork

Folder 12 - Clyde Beatty & Wallace Bros Circus, 1943




H.G.E.A. (Hawaii Government Employees' Association) Circus featuring Clyde Beatty

Folder 13 - H.G.E.A. (Hawaii Government Employees' Association) Circus featuring Clyde Beatty


Folder 13 - Clyde Beatty World's Second Largest Railroad Circus, 1954


Folder 13 - Cole Bros Circus and Clyde Beatty's Gigantic Trained Animal Exhibition


Folder 13 - Clyde Beatty's Amazing Jungleland


Folder 13 - Clyde Beatty Exhibit

Description: Window Card, Woodcut by Joanna Mahan





Folder 13 - Clyde Beatty Exhibit - FIRST PROOF, 1985

Description: Window Card, signed

Folder 13 - Clyde Beatty's Jungleland


Au Royaume De Tarzan

Folder 14 - Au Royaume De Tarzan

Description: Window Card, Movie

Folder 14 - Les Geants Du Cirque


Folder 14 - Les Geants Du Cirque


Folder 14 - Africa Ruge


Folder 14 - El Circo Del Terror


Folder 14 - El Circo Del Terror


Folder 14 - Darkest Africa

Description: Window Card, Movie / magazine spread


Description: Window Card, Movie/ promotional

Folder 14 - Ring of Fear

Description: Window Card, Move lobby card


Description: Window Card, Movie / text only

Folder 14 - Big Cage, The


Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Combined Circus

Folder 15 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Combined Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Mostly lions




Description: Half Sheet, Lions and Tigers


Description: Half Sheet, Lions and Tigers


Description: Half Sheet, Lions and Tigers b/w


Description: Half Sheet, Clown


Description: Half Sheet, Big Otto



Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus

Folder 16 - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler artwork Beatty/lion - linen


Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler artwork Beatty/lion


Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler artwork Beatty/lion


Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler artwork Beatty/lion -craft


Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler artwork Beatty/lion -craft


Description: Half Sheet, Woman aerialist -craft


Description: Half Sheet, Woman aerialist -craft


Description: Half Sheet, Clown head


Description: Half Sheet, Jungle scene


Description: Half Sheet, Jungle scene


Description: Half Sheet, Jungle scene -craft




Description: Half Sheet, Text only



Clyde Beatty Circus










Description: Half Sheet, Clowns












Description: Half Sheet, Woman aerialist


Description: Half Sheet, Woman aerialist


Description: Half Sheet, Cats



















Clyde Beatty Circus


Description: Half Sheet, Harriet Beatty




Description: Half Sheet, Performers


Description: Half Sheet, Performers


Description: Half Sheet, Great Barton


Description: Half Sheet, Two Eris


Description: Half Sheet, Hugo Zacchini


Description: Half Sheet, Bob Steele


Description: Half Sheet, Dog act


Description: Half Sheet, Elephant




Description: Half Sheet, Monkeys


Description: Half Sheet, Two Eris

Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros Circus

Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros Circus, 1943

Description: Half Sheet, Tom Mix

Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros. Trained Wild Animal Circus (Combined)

Description: Half Sheet, Mostly Lions

Folder 19 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 1934


Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty-Russell Bros Circus, 1944


Folder 19 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Trained Wild Animal Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Cats / pink chair

Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty 3 Ring Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Horse/performer

Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty Proudly Presents Duncan Renaldo


Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty Proudly Presents Duncan Renaldo


Folder 19 - Wait for the World's Largest Circus


Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty Railroad Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Elephant/performer

Folder 19 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic Railroad Circus





Description: Half Sheet, Elephant/performer

Cole Bros Circus and Clyde Beatty's Wild Animal Exhibition

Folder 20 - Cole Bros Circus and Clyde Beatty's Wild Animal Exhibition

Description: Half Sheet, Globe

Folder 20 - Cole Bros and Clyde Beatty

Description: Half Sheet, Performer and Clown


Description: Half Sheet, Ship

Folder 20 - Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros World's Largest Circus

Description: Half Sheet, 2 Horses/ 2 Performers/ clown


Description: Half Sheet, Monkeys


Description: Half Sheet, Woman and elephant


Description: Half Sheet, 3 clowns / firecracker


Description: Half Sheet, Elephant Lion Clown Beatty


Description: Half Sheet, Aerialist / Black Stallions


Description: Half Sheet, 3 elephants


Description: Half Sheet, Dog act


Description: Half Sheet, Woman / 5 black stallions / date tail

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Folder 21 - Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Terrell Jacobs repro

Folder 21 - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal


Folder 21 - Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Mostly Lions original


Description: Half Sheet, Girl/Horse





Folder 21 - Cole Bros Circus Clyde Beatty

Description: Half Sheet, 40 cats / pink chair























Description: Half Sheet, Tents








Description: Half Sheet, Tiger and lion




Description: Half Sheet, Tiger in grass


Description: Half Sheet, Tiger on globe


Description: Half Sheet, Tigers fighting


Description: Half Sheet, 40 cat act / pink chair



Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Circus

Folder 23 - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Lion head


Description: Half Sheet, Lion head


Description: Half Sheet, Charging tiger






Description: Half Sheet, Rhinos






Description: Half Sheet, Harriet / Elephant / Tiger - yellow


Description: Half Sheet, Harriet / Elephant / Tiger - white


Description: Half Sheet, Harriet / Elephant / Tiger - yellow red white



Description: Half Sheet, Woman / Elephant -yellow b/w - greatest show on Earth


Description: Half Sheet, Woman / Elephant - yellow, black , red, white - greatest show on Earth


Description: Half Sheet, Woman / Elephant - black, white, red - World's largest circus


Description: Half Sheet, Woman / Elephant - yellow, black, white, red - World's Largest circus sticker


Description: Half Sheet, Woman / Elephant - black, white, red, yellow - World's largest circus


Description: Half Sheet, Woman / Elephant - black, white, red, yellow - World's largest circus - Nashville

date tail

Folder 24 - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros

Description: Half Sheet, Giraffe


Description: Half Sheet, Giraffe


Description: Half Sheet, Capt. Astronaut


Description: Half Sheet, Capt. Astronaut



Description: Half Sheet, Clown - blue hat


Description: Half Sheet, Clown - white yellow hat


Description: Half Sheet, Clown - blue hat - craft


Description: Half Sheet, Clown - white yellow hat













Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros


Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler Woman/ Horse








Description: Half Sheet, Roland Butler Woman/ Horse - craft


Description: Half Sheet, Circus lot


Description: Half Sheet, Coffee - advertising


Description: Half Sheet, Clarkie - advertising


Description: Half Sheet, Elmo Topp - advertising


Description: Half Sheet, Elephant herd


Description: Half Sheet, Circus lot



Description: Half Sheet, Big cats


Description: Half Sheet, Big cats


Description: Half Sheet, Big cats - craft


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Big cats - craft

Folder 27 - Old Reliable Famous Robbins Circus




Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Big Cats - date tail


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Big Cats - date tail


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Snarling tiger - date tail


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Snarling tiger - date tail


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Roland Butler , Woman / Horse - date tail


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Clown - blue hat -date tail


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Roland Butler - Lion


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Roland Butler - Lion


Description: Half Sheet -date tail, Clown red tam

Folder 28 - Clyde Beatty Circus / Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus

Description: Half Sheet on one-sheet, Roland Butler 2 half sheet on one piece of linen

Hagenbeck - Wallace Wild Animal Circus

Folder 29 - Hagenbeck - Wallace Wild Animal Circus

Description: Half Sheet, Capt. Beatty

Folder 29 - Hagenbeck - Wallace

Description: Half Sheet, Blue on yellow

Folder 29 - Hagenbeck - Wallace


Folder 29 - Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey


Folder 29 - unknown circus

Description: date tail, date tail only – linen

Cole Bros Circus with Clyde Beatty

Folder 30 - Cole Bros Circus with Clyde Beatty

Description: Half Sheet, Text Only - Marion


Description: Half Sheet, Text Only


Description: Half Sheet, Text Only


Description: Half Sheet, Horse acrobats



Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - De Kalb

Folder 31 - Clyde Beatty All New Trained Wild Animal Circus

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - Niagara Falls


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Woman / Horse - Williamsport


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act -San Angelo


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - Ashland


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Text only - Dunkirk

Folder 31 - Clyde Beatty - Russel Bros Circus, 1944

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Tiger - Clyde with chair - Los Angeles

Folder 31 - Clyde Beatty - Russel Bros Circus, 1944

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act pink chair - Albany

Folder 31 - Hamid - Morton Circus featuring Clyde Beatty

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act pink chair - Binghamton

Folder 31 - Grotto Circus - Cleveland, Ohio

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act pink chair - Cleveland

Folder 31 - Johnny J Jones Exposition

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act pink chair - Beloit

Cole Bros Circus


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act Hope Stick - Flint


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act Whip - Port Huron

Folder 32 - Cole Bros Circus and Clyde Beatty's Wild Animal Exhibition

Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Globe - Wilkes - Barre


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - chair - Philadelphia


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - chair - Huntsville


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - chair - Nashville


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Cat Act - chair - Sheffield Center


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Tiger - Nashville


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Animals - Nashville


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Clowns - Mansfield


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Animals / Performers - Milwaukee


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Clowns - Milwaukee


Description: Half Sheet - Date Tail, Clown / Acrobats - Park Ridge

Movie posters

Folder 33 - La Selva Perdida

Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - tiger

Folder 33 - The Lost Jungle

Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - human hyenas

Folder 33 - The Lost Jungle

Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - pit of crocodiles


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - Hunter Lions of Joba

Folder 33 - Perils of the Jungle

Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - Savage danger


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster

Folder 33 - Lost Jungle

Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - take them back alive


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - linen


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - Lion's Brood


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - lion - craft


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - craft


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - leaping lion


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - 12 chapters


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - Baru - son of the Jungle - linen

Folder 34 - Circus Days


Folder 34 - Africa Screams


Folder 34 - I vilddjurens Vald


Folder 34 - Gaip Ormanlar Hakimi


Folder 34 - Tigern Ar Los


Folder 35 - King of Jungleland

Description: One-sheet, Movie poster -Gorilla - linen


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - hypnotic eye - linen


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - Bat Men of Joba


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - landscape pot


Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - adventure and action

Folder 35 - Clown, The



Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - Gorilla warfare


Description: Half Sheet, Mail-in poster


Description: Half Sheet, Mail-in poster

Folder 35 - Il Circo Delle Meraviglie

Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - portrait


Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - portrait


Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - landscape


Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - landscape uniform


Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - landscape fight

Folder 35 - Circus Days



Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - landscape sepia

Folder 35 - Pelon Ympyra

Description: Quarter Sheet?, Movie poster


Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - Tiger Men's God

Folder 36 - Flying Fontaines, 1959

Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster




Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster - landscape sepia



Folder 36 - Traques Dans La Jungle

Description: Half Sheet, Movie poster





Folder 36 - Fast, Cheap & Out of Control



Description: One-sheet, Movie poster - 15 thrill packed episodes – linen

Assorted shows and Beatty in Person

Folder 37 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros. Circus combined

Description: One-sheet, Text only

Folder 37 - Cole Bros Clyde Beatty Circus, 1937


Folder 37 - Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus

Description: One-sheet, Big Cat act red chair - linen

Folder 37 - Al G Barnes Wild Animal Circus

Description: One-sheet, Lions - Beatty

Folder 37 - Conklin Shows the World's Finest presents

Description: One-sheet, Big Cat act red chair - linen

Folder 37 - Robbins Bros Circus with Hoot Gibson, 1938


Folder 38 - Hamid Morton Circus featuring Clyde Beatty and his Wild Animals

Description: One-sheet, Tigers - craft

Folder 38 - Hamid Morton Circus featuring Clyde Beatty and his Wild Animals

Description: One-sheet, Text only - linen

Folder 38 - Christmas Circus and Holiday Festival, 1962


Folder 38 - Blank

Description: One-sheet, Lion

Folder 38 - Blank

Description: One-sheet, Cats / horse / clown / performer

Folder 38 - H.G.E.A. (Hawaii Government Employees' Association) Circus featuring Clyde Beatty, 1958

Description: One-sheet, Lions

Folder 38 - Clyde Beatty Historical Exhibit

Description: One-sheet, Tiger

Folder 38 - Clyde Beatty Tent


Folder 38 - In Person Lucky Teter

Description: One-sheet, Portrait

Folder 38 - In Person Clyde Beatty

Description: One-sheet, Headshot - craft


Description: One-sheet, Headshot - craft

Folder 38 - Original Show Boat Clyde Beatty

Description: One-sheet, Text Only


Description: One-sheet, Tiger - linen

Folder 39 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic 3 Ring Circus

Description: One-sheet, Tiger - craft

Folder 39 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic Circus

Description: One-sheet, Text only - craft

Folder 39 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic Circus

Description: One-sheet, Text only (railroad covered up)




Description: One-sheet, Clown landscape

Folder 39 - Clyde Beatty - 3 Ring Circus

Description: One-sheet, Clown portrait - Redding date tail

Folder 39 - Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros Trained Wild Animal Circus (Combined), 1944

Description: One-sheet, Pink chair - Los Angeles date tail

Folder 39 - Clyde Beatty Russell Bros Circus, 1944

Description: One-sheet, Big cats - craft

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 1934

Description: One-sheet, Parade

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

Description: One-sheet, Text Only 25 cents

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Wild Animal Circus

Description: One-sheet, Big cat act - linen

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Greater Circus

Description: One-sheet, text only - golden orient


Description: One-sheet, Cat - hope stick - linen


Description: One-sheet, Big cat act - craft

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus presents Capt Clyde Beatty

Description: One-sheet, text only - craft

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Wild Animal Circus, 1932

Description: One-sheet, Big cat act - Chattanooga date tail

Folder 40 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1934

Description: One-sheet, Elephant - Binghamton date tail

Folder 41 - Cole Bros Gigantic Railroad Circus

Description: One-sheet, Text only - New London date tail

Folder 41 - Cole Bros a Circus of Nations with Clyde Beatty, 1935

Description: One-sheet, Performers / flags - linen


Description: One-sheet, Text only - Fresno - craft

Folder 41 - Cole Bros Circus and Clyde Beatty, 1935

Description: One-sheet, Clown / performer - linen

Folder 41 - Cole Bros and Clyde Beatty Circus

Description: One-sheet, Jumbo 2 - linen

Folder 41 - Cole Bros Circus with Clyde Beatty, 1935

Description: One-sheet, Text only - Binghamton


Description: One-sheet, Text only - Lansing



Folder 42 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros Trained Wild Animal Circus (Combined)

Description: One-sheet, Pink chair - Decatur date tail


Description: One-sheet, Pink chair - Kingston date tail


Description: One-sheet, Tiger Redlands date tail


Description: One-sheet, Baron Novak - linen




Description: One-sheet, Elephant / Clown / Horse


Description: One-sheet, Clown


Description: One-sheet, Performers - Bethlehem date tail


Description: One-sheet, Elephants /acrobat - Washington date tail


Description: One-sheet, text only - Bethlehem date tail


Description: One-sheet, Elephants - craft


Description: One-sheet, Ring


Description: One-sheet, Elephants


Description: One-sheet, Clown - craft


Description: One-sheet,


Description: One-sheet, Pink chair - poor condition


Description: One-sheet, pink chair - Russell pasted over


Description: One-sheet, Cats - craft

Folder 43 - Clyde Beatty Circus / Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Circus

Description: One-sheet, 2 Quarter sheet on linen


Description: One-sheet, Lion and tiger - craft


Description: One-sheet, Clowns firecracker - craft


Description: One-sheet, Clown and pig - craft


Description: One-sheet, Rudy Rudynoff - craft


Description: One-sheet, Clown / horse/ rider - craft


Description: One-sheet, Acrobats - craft


Description: One-sheet, Clown / horse / performer - craft


Description: One-sheet, Acrobats / clown - craft


Description: One-sheet, Elephant / performer - craft


Description: One-sheet, Lion - craft


Description: One-sheet, Clowns - craft


Description: One-sheet, Cats - linen


Description: One-sheet, Tiger- craft


Description: One-sheet, Text only - street parade


Description: One-sheet, Text only - Dallas




Description: One-sheet, Clown - Butte date tail


Description: One-sheet, Elephant / performer - craft

Folder 44 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic Railroad Circus, 1949

Description: One-sheet, Text only - Duncan Renaldo - poor condition


Description: One-sheet, Text only - Duncan Renaldo - craft

Folder 45 - Cole Bros Circus, 1935

Description: One-sheet, Cats - Clyde chair whip - linen


Description: One-sheet, Mrs. Clyde Beatty - linen


Description: One-sheet, pink chair - craft


Description: One-sheet, Cat act - hope stick - craft


Description: One-sheet, Red chair




Description: One-sheet, Cats, Clyde chair whip - craft


Description: One-sheet, Red chair - linen


Description: One-sheet, Cats, Clyde chair whip - linen


Description: One-sheet, Cats - Philadelphia date tail


Description: One-sheet, Cats - craft


Description: One-sheet, Cats - variant


Description: One-sheet, Cats - variant - craft



Folder 46 - Blank

Description: One-sheet, Clown

Folder 47 - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Circus, 1968



Description: One-sheet, Lion - Peoria date tail


Description: One-sheet, Lion - Saratoga Springs date tail


Description: One-sheet, Cats, horse, clown - Nashville date tail


Description: One-sheet, Clown - Huntsville date tail


Description: One-sheet, Tiger - Miami date tail



Folder 47 - Blank



Description: One-sheet, Clown - Elmira date tail

Folder 48 - Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Combined 3 Ring Circus

Description: One-sheet, Christmas Circus

Folder 48 - Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros World’s Largest Circus

Description: One-sheet, Clowns/ acrobats - craft


Description: One-sheet, Acrobats - Roanoke date tail


Description: One-sheet, Acrobat / clown / horse

Folder 48 - Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros World’s Largest Circus, 1962

Description: One-sheet, Acrobats / clown


Description: One-sheet, Lion


Description: One-sheet, Seals


Description: One-sheet, Elephants and performer - Portsmouth date tail




Description: One-sheet, Animals


Description: One-sheet, Animals


Description: One-sheet, Bears - Ardmore date tail


Description: One-sheet, Elephants - clown


Description: One-sheet, Clowns firecracker


Description: One-sheet, Clown and pig




Description: One-sheet, Clown / horse / performer - craft




Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Long Island


Description: Quarter Sheet, Cat act - Philadelphia date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Niles date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Alexandria date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Huntsville date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - South Bend date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Animals


Description: Quarter Sheet, Animals


Description: Quarter Sheet, Lion - Nashville date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Lion - Huntsville date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Hippo / Circus ring - Huntsville date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Hippo / Circus ring


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Freeport


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performer , elephant, clown - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Animals / performers - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Animals / performer - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performer / horse - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, performer / elephant / clown


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performers - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performers


Description: Quarter Sheet, 2 acts - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Big cats - New York date tail - linen


Description: Quarter Sheet, Acrobats / clown - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Horse / Performer

Folder 52 - Clyde Beatty Circus, 1956

Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Sarasota date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performer, elephant / clown - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, 2 acts -Port Washington date tail


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Nashville


Description: Quarter Sheet, Big cats - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Murfreesboro


Description: Quarter Sheet, Cisco Kid - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Animals - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performers - Lawrence date tail

Folder 52 - Hamid -Morton World's Greatest Indoor Circus

Description: Quarter Sheet, Elephants / clown

Folder 52 - Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros Circus, 1968

Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Liberty Bell Park - Philadelphia


Description: Quarter Sheet, Hippo


Description: Quarter Sheet, Hippo


Description: Quarter Sheet, Hippo - craft

Folder 53 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros Circus Combined

Description: Quarter Sheet, Elephants / performers - craft

Folder 53 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Bros Circus Trained Wild Animal Circus Combined



Description: Quarter Sheet, Clowns - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Acrobats


Description: Quarter Sheet, Female trainer

Folder 53 - Hagenbeck - Wallace Circus

Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Lansing


Description: Quarter Sheet, Performer / elephant


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Gary


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Hoot Gibson - Chattanooga


Description: Quarter Sheet, Cat act – Seattle date tail - linen


Description: Quarter Sheet, Text only - Shreveport

Folder 54 - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1945



Description: Quarter Sheet, Lion - linen

Folder 54 - Blank

Description: Quarter Sheet

Folder 54 - Blank


Folder 54 - Blank


Folder 54 - Blank


Folder 54 - Blank


Folder 54 - Blank


Folder 54 - Blank


Movie posters

Folder 55 - Big Cage , The

Description: Quarter Sheet, Movie poster











Folder 56 - Misc. pieces

Description: Misc.

Folder 56b - Clyde Beatty Circus

Description: One-sheet, Text only - Murfreesboro

Folder 56b - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Circus

Description: One-sheet, Text only - Jennings

Folder 56b - Wait! For



Description: 6 sheet, Movie poster


Description: 3 Sheet, Movie poster


Description: 3 Sheet, Movie poster - craft

Folder 59 - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Combined

Description: 3 sheet, Big Otto


Description: 6 Sheet, Elephants / performer - craft


Description: 6 Sheet, Elephants / performers - craft


Description: 9 Sheet, Elephant / performer


Description: 2 Sheet, Lion - craft

Folder 64 - Clyde Beatty Presents his all new gigantic Railroad Circus

Description: 6 Sheet, Clyde / Tiger - craft

Folder 65 - Clyde Beatty

Description: 3 Sheet, Text only

Folder 66 - Blank

Description: 6 Sheet, Stock lion


Description: 2 Sheet, Clown


Description: 2 Sheet, Clown


Description: 2 Sheet, Clown - craft

Folder 68 - Blank

Description: 2 Sheet, Clown spanking tiger

Folder 68 - Blank


Folder 68 - Blank


Folder 68 - Blank


Folder 68 - Blank





Description: 2 Sheet, Acrobats - craft


Description: 2 Sheet, Acrobats


Description: 2 Sheet, Tiger globe


Description: 2 Sheet, Tiger globe - craft

Folder 70 - Lion

Description: 2 Sheet, stock lion

Folder 70 - Lion

Description: 2 Sheet, stock lion

Folder 70 - Clown

Description: 2 Sheet, stock

Folder 70 - Clown


Folder 70 - Clowns firecracker






Folder 71 - Clyde Beatty Gigantic Trained Animal Exhibition

Description: 2 Sheet, Cat act - chair whip - craft

Folder 71 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Jungle-Bed Trained Wild Animal Circus

Description: One-sheet, Tigers - board


Description: One-sheet, Red Chair - craft

Folder 71 - Hamid-Morton Circus Featuring Clyde Beatty

Description: One-sheet, Pink Chair - craft


Description: One-sheet, Cat act - craft



Folder 71 - Clyde Beatty - Russell Bros Circus



Description: Half Sheet, Lion chair whip - Memphis date tail - linen


Description: Half Sheet, Red chair - craft


Description: Half Sheet, Lion chair whip - craft


Description: Half Sheet, Lion tiger hope stick - linen

Folder 71 - Clyde Beatty and Wallace Trained Wild Animal Circus (Combined)

Description: Half Sheet, Pink chair - linen


Description: Half Sheet, Performers and animals - mounted on cardboard

Folder 71 - Big Cage , The





Description: Quarter Sheet, Photo - craft


Description: Quarter Sheet, Cat act - craft

loft - Lost Jungle

Description: Banner, Lions

loft - Greetings to Clyde Beatty - Pacific Coast Showmen's Association

Description: Banner, Text only

loft - Big Cage , The

Description: 3 Sheet, Movie poster - craft

loft - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Circus


loft - Clyde Beatty Circus

Description: 3 Sheet, Cat act - linen


Description: 3 Sheet, Clown - craft


Description: 3 Sheet, Roland Butler clown - craft

loft - Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus

Description: 3 Sheet, Horse - Rider - craft

loft - Lost Jungle

Description: 3 Sheet, Movie poster - Lion and tiger - linen

loft - El Circo Del terror

Description: 2 Sheet, Movie poster - drama - linen

loft - King of Jungleland

Description: 3 Sheet, Movie poster - gorilla


Description: 16 Sheet

loft - Hagenbeck-Wallace World's Greatest Trained Wild Animal Circus


loft - Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus

Description: 6 Sheet, Clyde / Tiger

loft - Clyde Beatty Gigantic 3 Ring Circus

Description: 8 Sheet, Cat act = craft

loft - Clyde Beatty Cole Bros World's Largest Circus

Description: 6 Sheet, Hippo - craft

loft - Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros Circus Combined

Description: One-sheet, Text only - Los Angeles date tail - linen

loft - All new this year - stock cats

Description: 2 Sheet, Cats - craft

loft - Roland Butler clown - bottom half only

Description: 2 sheet











loft - Clyde Beatty

Description: 2 Sheet, Text only - craft

loft - Clyde Beatty






loft - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

Description: 3 Sheet, Beatty - Tiger and cubs - linen

loft - Circus


loft - 2 sheets / cats / incomplete

Description: 2 Sheet ?

loft - (the number) 4


loft - (the number) 4


loft - Carl Hagenbeck - Wallace Circus

Description: One-sheet, Tiger riding elephant - Peru date tail

loft - Hamid-Morton Circus

Description: 16 Sheet, Pink chair, Hamid-Morton Circus (top), Clyde Beatty greatest wild animal trainer

of all time (bottom)

Sub-series 2: Hanging wall art and oversized images

Folder 1 - Clyde Beatty Zoo and Circus, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. Route 1 sign, undated.

Folder 1 - See Clyde Beatty's Jungleland, 185 St. and Biscayne Blvd. sign, undated.

Folder 1 - Menelik and Clyde Beatty, Sunday news photo, 4 April 1937.

Folder 1 - Menelik and Clyde Beatty, Sunday news clipping, 4 April 1937.

Folder 1 - Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. World's Largest Circus herald and ticket, 1961.

Folder 1 - Clyde Beatty original layout for 1934 window card, undated.

Folder 1 - Original Clyde Beatty art for Cole Bros. Circus by Jack Winter, Seattle Times, 1937.

Folder 1 - Backing for Jack Winter art with notes and images used to create art, undated.

Description: Image of Beatty with lion, Clyde R. Beatty autograph, image of Beatty.

Folder 1 - Bill Ballantine pen and ink sketch used in Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas, 1958.

Description: Beatty with whip and chair, tiger on ball.

Folder 1 - Accompanying material, undated.

Description: Tiger on ball (2), Beatty looking at tiger in cage, notes from backing material.

Folder 1 - Bill Ballantine pen and ink sketch used in Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas, undated.

Description: Beatty smiling.


Description: Image of Beatty smiling.

Folder 2 - Cole Bros. Circus Clyde Beatty pink chair lithograph, undated.

Description: Springfield, Thursday June 10.

Folder 2 - Cole Bros. Circus with Clyde Beatty color image, undated.

Description: Woman in pink dress on rearing black horse.

Folder 2 - Watercolor by Forrest Freeland showing Clyde Beatty and tiger Sleika II about to perform the

rollover, 1946.


Description: Photocopy of photo watercolor was based on.

Folder 2 - Capt. Beatty 40 ferocious kings of the jungle lithograph, undated.

Folder 2 - Cole Bros. Big Railroad Circus lithograph, undated.

Folder 2 - Hamid-Morton and Clyde Beatty Combined Circus lithograph, 1940.

Description: Beatty with 40 big cats, red chair, Trenton, June 10-12.

Folder 3 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Nebraska State Fair, 3 September 1928.

Description: Panoramic photograph.

Folder 3 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 12 June 1931.

Description: Photograph.

Folder 3 - Clyde Beatty, undated.

Description: Oversized photograph.


Description: Dave Hoover note.

Folder 3 - Clyde Beatty Circus tent and truck painting, undated.

Description: Verne Butler.

Folder 3 - John Robinson Circus Cleveland, Ohio, 18-19 May 1923.

Description: Panoramic photograph.

Folder 3 - Beatty with car and lion jumping through hoop, undated.

Description: Oversized photograph.

Folder 4 - Clyde Beatty pencil sketch by Robert Gable, who knew Beatty when he was a child, undated.

Description: Gable knew Beatty when he (Gable) was a child.

Folder 4 - Pictorial News of the Day "Triple defense" photo of Beatty and lion, 4 May 1960.

Folder 4 - Big Cage movie puzzle, undated.

Folder 4 - Big Cage movie puzzle advertisement, undated.

Folder 4 - Clyde Beatty portrait by Lindy Mixon, undated.

Folder 4 - Clyde Beatty with lion charcoal? sketch, undated.

Folder 4 - Picturegrams "One Risky Job" image of Beatty in cage, 5 December 1932.

Folder 4 - Columbus Evening Dispatch, "Beatty, mauled by lion, is near death", 28 January 1932.

Description: Newspaper.

Folder 4 - Columbus Dispatch, "Murder in the lion cage", 1934.

Description: Newspaper.

Folder 5 - John Steuart Curry study showing Clyde Beatty and Nero at Madison Square Gardens, 1932.

Folder 5 - John Steuart Curry signature "for Charles C. Reiss?", 1942.

Description: Accompanying material.

Folder 6 - Clyde Beatty with chair and baton facing a lion, undated.

Description: Roland Butler. Includes inset images of clown, hippopotamus, circus entrance, and

elephant.

Folder 6 - Clyde Beatty Circus logo, undated.

Description: Roland Butler. Includes inset of tiger and clown.

Folder 6 - Big Otto, Clyde Beatty Circus, undated.

Description: Roland Butler.

Folder 7 - Dennison circus theme teaching aid, undated.

Description: Color prints of Clyde Beatty with whip and chair, lion, tiger on ball, and other circus animals

and performers.

Folder 7 - Publicity campaign plan for Perils of the Jungle, 1953.

Description: 2 copies.

Folder 7 - King of Jungleland publicity materials catalog, 1948.

Folder 7 - The Lost Jungle publicity materials catalog, 1934.

Folder 7 - The Big Cage publicity materials catalog, undated.

Description: Grayscale cover with Beatty holding pistol and whip.

Folder 7 - The Big Cage publicity materials catalog, undated.

Description: Cover with orange text and Beatty holding chair and whip.

Folder 7 - Ring of Fear publicity materials catalog, 1954.

Folder 7 - Publicity material for Love Happy and Africa Screams, 1953.

Folder 7 - Africa Screams Spanish language over-sized lobby card, 1949.

Description: Modified by owner to contain an image of Beatty and two lions rather than Abbott and

Costello.

Folder 8 - Roland Butler artwork for newspaper advertisements, undated.

Folder 9 - Newspaper advertisement material, undated.

Cabinet 11, Folder 10 - Previously framed materials, 1931, 1952, undated.

Description: Photos (some autographed and inscribed) and news articles concerning Beatty, includes

resolution of Ohio House of Representatives on Clyde Beatty's death.

Cabinet 11, folder 11 - Previously framed materials, 1932, undated.

Description: Includes Kelty photos.

Cabinet 11, folder 12 - Previously framed materials, 1932, 1935, 1937, undated.

Description: Photos and articles of Clyde Beatty, includes menu from Oscar's with image of Beatty.

Cabinet 11, folder 13 - Previously framed materials, 1950, undated.

Description: Photos and news articles concerning Beatty and other circus celebrities, includes sheet

music for The Clyde Beatty March, signed and with inscription by Albert Glasser.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Hagenbeck Wallace Circus group photo, 1932.

Description: Photo by Century.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Clyde Beatty in ring with tigers and lions photo, 1932.

Description: Photo by Century.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Clyde Beatty smiling 11x14 photo, undated.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Reproduction of Clyde Beatty drawing by Jack Winter, undated.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - The Big Cage 11x14 photo, 7 April 1933.

Description: Shows Vince Barnett, Andy Devine, and Clyde Beatty with elephant.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Clyde Beatty Circus poster reproduction, undated.

Description: Shows Beatty with whip and chair in cage with numerous lions and tigers.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Date sheets, Kennewick, 17 July.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Elephant in green field 9x12 photo, undated.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - King-Royal Circus small poster, undated.

Description: Shows woman with elephant.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. 2nd Largest Circus mailing envelope, undated.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Clyde Beatty Circus promotional sheet (black and white), undated.

Cabinet 11, folder 14 - Clyde Beatty Circus promotional sheet (with some coloring), undated.

Folder 15 - Gigantic trained animal exhibition print, undated.

Description: Color.

Folder 15 - Clyde Beatty 3 Ring Circus print, 1980.

Description: Black and white, 30/1000. Jerry Booker.

Folder 15 - Beatty Showdown, 1981.


Folder 15 - Featuring Clyde Beatty 3 Ring Circus, 1980.


Folder 15 - Clyde Beatty and the Cisco Kid, 1980.


Folder 15 – Pink chair poster, undated.

Description: "Only 1000 made."

Cabinet 11, folder 16 - Original Roland Butler showing Clyde Beatty and the lion Sammy, 1957.

Description: Image used on 1957 and 1958 programs. Frame by Butler.

Appendix 1: Winter Quarters

Late in 1944 Beatty bought Wallace Bros, which was wintered in York, South Carolina. After 1945, the

only season of the Clyde Beatty Circus on trucks, it went to Macon, Georgia, as Floyd King had bought it

and renamed it King Bros.

Then Beatty went to El Paso where Art Concello's 1945 Russell Bros. Pan Pacific was wintered. They

changed the title to Clyde Beatty Circus and opened there in the spring of 1946, getting to the West

Coast as quickly as possible. The show made excellent profits in Canada and Beatty bought Concello out

after the successful season. Beatty took the show to Nacogdoches, Texas to winter 1946-47.

The show wintered in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1947-48.

The show wintered in El Monte, California in 1948-49 and 1949-50

The show wintered in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1950-51 (Harriet had just died and Beatty wanted to close

and winter as soon as possible and Shreveport was close).

The show returned to El Monte, California to winter 1951-52

The show wintered in Newhall, California for the 1952-53 season, a fact often forgotten by Beatty fans

and scholars.

The show wintered in Deming, New Mexico for the 1953-54, 1954-55 and 1955-56 seasons. The show

then returned to Deming after an early closing for re-organization under McClosky and Kernan, and

reopened later and wintered in Deland, Florida.

-Provided by Dave Price

Appendix 2: Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. titles

From 1935-1938 Clyde Beatty worked for the Cole Bros., and sometimes the advertising would read

"Cole Bros-Clyde Beatty Circus."

Beatty went out on his own in 1945 in a truck show and began using the title Clyde Beatty Circus. He

continued using that title on a railroad show (which he operated under a partnership with Art Concello)

beginning in 1946.

In mid-1956 Beatty lost ownership of the show, but stayed on as a feature act under the new owner.

The Cole Bros. Circus had gone out of business in the early 1950s, and in 1959 the new owners of the

Beatty show bought the inactive Cole Bros. title and began calling their show the "Clyde Beatty-Cole

Bros. Circus."

While the combined titles were used for many years (even after Beatty's death), no formal merger of

the two circuses ever occurred. In recent years the show has just used the title Cole Bros. Circus.


Appendix 3: Shows Clyde Beatty was with by Year

1921 Howe's Great London, joined 16 August, Washington Court House, Ohio

1922 Gollmar Bros (same show as above) until on 1 November when Beatty was picked up by the Hagenbeck-Wallace train on the way to Peru, Indiana along with hippo Victor to appear on the corporation's winter show

1923 John Robinson's-for the most part the 1922 Gollmar show-frequently billed as "100th Anniversary"

1924 John Robinson's

1925-1934 Hagenbeck-Wallace (sometimes Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace)

1931-1934 Played dates at Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, then back to Hagenbeck-Wallace each year for road tours

1935-1938 Cole Bros (sometimes Cole Bros-Clyde Beatty; Cole closed early on 15 August 1938)

1938 Robbins Bros Beatty (same owners as Cole), Beatty joined 15 August for remainder of season

1939 Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City

1940 Hamid-Morton- This show while under tents was the leased Wallace Bros Circus repainted. Sometimes Hamid-Morton featuring Clyde Beatty, sometimes Hamid-Morton Clyde Beatty Combined (the titles were also used on some indoor dates)

1941-1942 Johnny J. Jones Shows (railroad carnival) 1943 Clyde-Beatty-Wallace Bros (actually the Wallace Bros show), Beatty paid for act and use

of his name

1944 Clyde Beatty-Russell Bros (actually the Russell Bros show), Beatty paid for act and use of his name

1945 Clyde Beatty Circus, sometimes Clyde Beatty All New Trained Wild Animal Circus (motorized-the former Wallace Bros, Beatty owned)

1946 Clyde Beatty Circus (the former Russell Bros-Pan Pacific Circus on rails), Art Concello, principal owner, Beatty bought him out post-1946 season

1947-1956 Clyde Beatty Circus (on rails 1955-mid 1955, Concello becomes part owner)

1956 Clyde Beatty Circus closes early 9 May Burbank, California, to winter quarters in Deming, New Mexico; show reorganized under new owners, reopened 30 August, Deming

1957-1958 Clyde Beatty Circus, new owners, on trucks

1959-1965 Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus, on trucks

1964 Beatty out for cancer treatment 18 July until 30 October

1965 Beatty leaves show 10 May, never returns

Various dates Beatty also appeared at many spots and dates for George Hamid, Orrin Davenport, and others in Shrine,Grotto, etc. shows which are too numerous to list.
