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A letter from the president of Yale acknowledging that Jonathan Jones Howard has completed all the required studies necessary in the medical school and is awarded a Doctor of Medicine. An accompanying letter from Mrs. Katherine Phelps Caperton gives some history of the Howard family and a list of all Madison County graduates of Yale University.

Diploma for Jonathan Jones Howard

Membership certificate for Improved Order of Red Men, Floating Canoe Tribe, No. 76. (Dorris Museum Collection, 1902.45 and 74.13.1.)

The Shropshire Collection includes a large variety of circus material from the early to mid 1900s that was donated to the Dorris Museum by Mrs. James Shropshire. When the Dorris Museum closed, the collection was transferred to Special Collections and Archives. The items within the collection include photos of performers and circus snapshots, post cards, circus newspapers, programs and newspaper clippings, as well as lifetime circus passes and tickets.

Gollmar Bros. Trained Wild Animal Circus

Gollmar Bros. Show program newspaper

Christy Bros. Circus program newspaper

M.L. Clark and Sons program newspaper

The Amusement Herald circus newspaper

101 Ranch News circus newspaper