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Circus Workers Giving Elephants a Drink

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Two circus workers standing next to a water wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering tractor. The men are providing water for three elephants outside the tents ...
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Elephants Drinking from Wagon Pulled by McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo...
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Workers Pull Circus Wagon with Tractor

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Workers pulling a Sells Floto Circus wagon with a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor along the street of a town. In the background, children and adults a...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op...
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10-20 Tractor with Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A man pulls a circus wagon with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor while two men watch near a tent. The circus is likely the Sells-Floto Circus.
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Sells Floto Circus Wagons

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Men attach Sells Floto circus wagons to McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractors in front of a circus tent.
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McCormick-Deering Industrial 10-20 Tractor at Circus

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to pull a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Children and adults are walking nearby, and a tent and l...
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Baraboo Circus Celebration Parade

Date: 07 10 1965
Description: Charles P. (Chappie) Fox, left, standing at the microphone, moderating the annual circus celebration parade in Baraboo. He is the Circus World Museum direc...
Photograph

Competition Between Tractor and Elephant

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View across field towards a man sitting on an elephant on the left, and a man sitting on a tractor on the right pulling a wagon. The elephant is hitched to...
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Man Driving Tractor Pulling Sells-Floto Circus wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View across grounds towards a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor pulling a Sells-Floto Circus wagon. Tents are in the background.
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Tractors Pulling Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View down street towards two men driving up the street on tractors pulling Sells-Floto circus wagons. People are watching from the sidewalk across the stre...
Photograph

Man Driving Tractor Pulling Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 01 1927
Description: View down street towards a man driving up the street on a tractor pulling Sells-Floto circus wagons. People are watching from the sidewalk across the stree...
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Tractor Pulling Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View across grounds towards a man driving a tractor pulling a Sells-Floto circus wagon. There are other circus wagons, people and tents in the background.
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Tractor Pulling Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: Left side view of a man driving a tractor pulling a Sells-Floto circus wagon onto a lot. Tents are in the background.
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Man Driving Tractor Pulling Sells-Floto Circus Wagon

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View from front of a man driving a tractor pulling a Sells-Floto circus wagon onto a circus lot. Tents are in the background.
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Circus Train

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Description: View across field towards a train of open railroad cars carrying circus wagons.
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Steam Locomotive Carrying Circus Wagons

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Description: View across field towards a railroad train transporting circus wagons on open railroad cars.

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