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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
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| Description: | Dell Hammel offering tickets for a Shriner Circus sideshow of Dancing Girls. There are good indications that this photograph has been manipulated and is a ... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in... |
| Date: | 08 07 1989 |
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| Description: | Jay Taylor, age 12, demonstrates his skill on stilts with a walk down E. Nock Street. |
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| Description: | Circus clown, "Bumpsy" Anthony, stands in front of a tent. |
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| Description: | A clown wearing a small hat with a feather, a polka-dotted suit, and large gloves, stands near a tent. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A horse, with a man standing in the stirrups of the saddle while twirling a lariat. |
| 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 view of the inside of a circus tent being readied for a performance. |
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| Description: | A team of elephants, paired and directed by circus personnel, proceed along an urban street. |
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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,... |
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| Description: | A female Cole Brothers Circus performer is shown in costume, wearing a tall plumed hat, with a tent as a backdrop. |
| Date: | 12 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carni... |
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| Description: | "Diamond Kitty," a performer with the Shrine Circus, poses with a large group of people in front of the sideshow tent housing the "World's Fattest People" ... |
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| Description: | A group of 11 circus clowns poses with a pretty young female performer in a circus tent. This could possibly be part of a movie set. |
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| Description: | Erma Ward, a circus trapeze artist, dangles by one hand from a ring high in a circus tent. |
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