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| Date: | 01 1910 |
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| Description: | The grandstand at the Los Angeles Aviation Meet, the first international aviation event held in the United States. The plane on the ground near the center ... |
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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: | 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. |
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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: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
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| Description: | A Cole Brothers Circus wagon sits on a flatbed truck, near a railroad yard, awaiting transport by the Shea-Matson Machinery Mover & Millwrights company. |
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| Description: | People gather near a circus poster display advertising side show attractions. |
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| Description: | Three young boys, kneeling in the grass, peer into a circus tent at the elephants. |
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| Description: | A group of 20+ circus clowns posing informally while preparing for the ring. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Two early Ringling Brothers' circus clowns, whose photographs appeared in the "Ringling Annual" under a section titled "Last of the Old-Time Clowns". |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A large group of circus performers and personnel, including a clown and band members, pose in front of a tent. |
| 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: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Personnel of the old Miles Orton Circus outside a tent in their 1891-92 New Orleans' quarters. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
| 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... |
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