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Description: | Erma Ward, a circus trapeze artist, dangles by one hand from a ring high in a circus tent. |
Date: | 08 22 1931 |
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Description: | Group portrait taken in Vilas Park of children, and a few adults, some in costume, from the Lincoln Street-West Side area, who put on a circus to raise mon... |
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Description: | Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop. |
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Description: | A circus sideshow performer sits outside a tent talking with two women performers of short stature. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street. |
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Description: | A group of 20+ circus clowns posing informally while preparing for the ring. |
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Description: | Studio portrait of trapeze artist Emily Schadel, posing on a trapeze. |
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Description: | Chinko The Juggler balances a large portrait of a woman on his head. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | A street carnival on the Capitol Square in which two individuals perform together while suspended in the air. |
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Description: | Snapshot by Madison butcher Earl Omen of elephants parading past the Monona Avenue gate of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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Description: | Crowd gathered in the park near the North Wing of the Third Wisconsin State Capitol watching aerial performer descend a wire attached to the roof of the bu... |
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. |
Date: | 04 04 1934 |
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Description: | Three rings of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus are shown being set up for a performance in New York's Madison Square Garden. |
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Description: | Personnel of the old Miles Orton Circus outside a tent in their 1891-92 New Orleans' quarters. |
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