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| 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. |
| 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. ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 04 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured are three elephants from Whitbeck Motion Pictures, California, and Robert Zimmerman, assistant secretary of state and board member of Circus Fans ... |
| Date: | 04 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Zor Shriners Band members serenading the Polack Brothers show elephants outside of the Parkway Theater, where they are performing. |
| Date: | 05 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine Circus group posing in front of the Masonic Temple. |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to move a wagon at the Sells Floto circus. Next to the wagon, a man sits on an elephant, while thr... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Circus performers posed in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society, then known as the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Gargantua the Gorilla roars as he holds a native African tribesman over his head using one arm. In the background the rest of the tribe, carrying shields a... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A man and woman are standing near a child riding a llama, with a young girl on the right standing and holding the llama's lead. In the background, people a... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | View across grounds towards a man on a tractor on the right, and a man with an elephant on the left. The elephant is hitched to the back of the tractor wit... |
| Date: | 02 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Chimba the chimpanzee makes an appearance at the final Madison Zor Shrine planning meeting for the annual Shrine Circus held at the Dane County Fairgrounds... |
| Date: | 11 06 1913 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Street Scene, Baraboo, Wis." Circus animals walking down a city street. Zebras, Water Buffalo, Cattle and Camels are led by handlers.... |
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