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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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Circus performer Harriet Hodgini, sits on the gate of a truck helping Otto Griebling, a circus clown, apply his makeup. |
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| Description: | A man and a woman, in the process of getting dressed for a circus performance, pose informally in the back of a circus wagon. |
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| Description: | Wagon number 20, advertising Albert M. Wetter's 3 Big Shows & World's Menagerie, is parked at a curb next to a private residence. |
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| Description: | A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | People stand in line to purchase tickets at a Barnum & Bailey Circus ticket wagon near the main tent. |
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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. |
| Date: | 07 14 1897 |
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| Description: | James Whalen, boss canvasman with the Ringling Brothers circus, at work in a van. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | A group of personnel with the Rentz & Co.'s Monster Circus combined with the Great American Racing Association, pose for a photograph by the side of the tr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man in a gorilla suit stands on the tongue of a wagon, holding his mask. He is an employee of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. |
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| Description: | A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm... |
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