{"id":10015,"date":"2018-05-02T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2018-05-02T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:35:02","slug":"exhibit-circus-coll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-circus-coll\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Selections from the Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10060\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10060 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/circ-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/circ-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/05\/circ-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Apple Circus, Twenty Years, 1997-1998 season program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently on View:\u00a0 Selections from the\u00a0Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection<\/p>\n<p>The Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection contains more than 200 items, primarily about the American circus arts, including first-edition books, pennants, programs, stamps, drawings and promotional materials dating from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simon graduated with a degree in philosophy from Brown University in 1954. An avid reader of American history, he completed a Master of Arts in History at Xavier University in Cincinnati in 1987. \u00a0He was President of Schaefer Tailoring Company (Cincinnati), founder of People, Places and Things (1976), and served as a dedicated member of the Brown University Library Advisory Council for more than a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>: May 1 \u2013 May 31<em>,<\/em> 2018<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/about\/rock\/\">John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Hours<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, 10 Prospect\u00a0Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently on View:\u00a0 Selections from the\u00a0Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection The Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection contains more than 200 items, primarily about the American circus arts, including first-edition books, pennants, programs, stamps, drawings and promotional materials dating from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Simon graduated with a degree in philosophy from Brown University in <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-circus-coll\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | Selections from the Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,32,5,34,6,35,8,10,36,14,20,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-announcements-special-collections","category-collections","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-featured-resources","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-josiah-carberry","category-new-acquisitions","category-new-resources","category-special-collections","category-spotlights","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}