DELLY, William H. (1874-1943). Circus Ephemera Archive of William Delly. Two file folders containing a collection of circus ephemera personally owned by William Delly, owner of the Delly Poster and Advertising Company, previously working in advertising for the Gollmar Shows, Barnum and Bailey, and Sells-Floto Circuses. Collection includes sixteen diaries, booklets, and miscellaneous date books and ledgers, including 1891-94, 1892-1894,1896-98, 1899, 1900, 1904, 1905, 1905-1907, 1908-09,1910, 1911, 1912-13, 1916, 1917 and two others with Theatrical Mechanical Association stubs. A second folder contains filled and blank employment contracts with various circus acts, from RBBB, Sparks, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sells-Floto, Barnum and Bailey, and a multitude of other vintage circus ephemera, clippings, agreement form, telegrams, lithograph reports, correspondence, one late 19th century ticket for performance by “Delly the Funmaker,” and many more items. Interesting contents. Good to very good.