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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Circus and Rodeo photographs, circa 1875-circa 1940
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| Description: | Fred and Ella Bradna, equestrian director and performer for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. There are several other performers and a dog, relaxing in t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
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| Description: | A horse, with a man standing in the stirrups of the saddle while twirling a lariat. |
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| Description: | A team of elephants, paired and directed by circus personnel, proceed along an urban street. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Clyde Beatty, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, sits on a chair outside a circus tent with two young tigers. |
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| Description: | A circus lion, covered by soapy lather, is bathed in a free-standing bathtub inside a cage. |
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| Description: | Several elephants walk up a hill in a circus parade along Main Street. They are followed by a group of horses, while bystanders watch from a platform on t... |
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| Description: | Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of over twenty-six Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants, standing on their rear legs with front legs resting on the elephant ahead. ... |
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| Description: | A long string of circus elephants parades single file down a metropolitan street lined on both sides by huge crowds of people. |
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| Description: | Three young boys, kneeling in the grass, peer into a circus tent at the elephants. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Della Royal (Mrs. Rhoda Royal) sits in a 2-wheeled cart decorated with flowers and harnessed to her world famous horse, "Glendive," as taken from a 1906 ha... |
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| Description: | Dode Fisk, the operator of a dog and pony show and circus, drives a wire-wheeled show buggy pulled by the horse "Bobby". They are photographed next to a ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr.'s wagon show, pulled by horses, travels along a country road. |
| Date: | 04 04 1934 |
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| Description: | Three rings of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus are shown being set up for a performance in New York's Madison Square Garden. |
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| Description: | Frank B. Miller with a trained spotted stallion, sitting on its rear legs, whose trainer was with the Norris & Rowe shows. They were photographed at winter... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
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