Milner Library Hosts Circus Book Launch Event, Nov. 6

Illinois State University's Milner Library and publisher Taschen Press will host a book launch event for Circus, 1870-1950, on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. in Milner Library's Special Collections Area, Room 613.   

Hundreds of photographs from Milner Library's Circus and Allied Arts Collection are featured in the oversized, 670-page pictorial history that chronicles the people, animals and acts that made the traveling circus a popular attraction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Essays accompanying the photos are in English, French and German.

Editor Noel Daniel will be on hand at the event to sign copies of the book. 

Milner Library's Circus and Allied Arts Collection is one of the largest and best special collections of its type in existence, with an emphasis on circuses and related arts such as carnivals, carousels, conjuring, music halls, and vaudeville. In addition to more than 6,000 volumes in its book holdings, the Circus and Allied Arts Collection includes photographs, circus posters, programs, route books, correspondence, business records, band scores, videotapes and audiotapes.