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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
| Date: | 07 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Dane County Jr. Fair at the Madison fairgrounds, July 18 through 22, 1973. Features a screen printed illustration of a clown, a ... |
| Date: | 08 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, advertised as the World's largest, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Groun... |
| Date: | 08 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers combined Circus, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Grounds in Madison, Wisconsin. ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Roundy Couglin and members of the Dodson Imperial Shows at Camp Wawbeek, where they had gone to entertain the 93 children camping there. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph featuring Buffalo Bill riding his horse. The poster was created for Buffalo Bill's Wild West circus show, as part of the Sells Floto... |
| Date: | 10 11 1951 |
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| Description: | A "lion" is being put through its paces by his "trainer" before a crowd of "circus fans" at Lowell School, as first grade students perform at a dress rehea... |
| Date: | 07 04 1952 |
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| Description: | A lineup of over twenty costumed children assembled along 2620 Chamberlain Street in the Shepard Terrace neighborhood. They had performed a circus for Roun... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Wisconsin Circus Lore" written by the Federal Writer's Project in Wisconsin and bound by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The cover features a d... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man in a gorilla suit stands on the tongue of a wagon, holding his mask. He is an employee of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. |
| Date: | 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of entertainment at the annual convention of the Wisconsin Retail Lumberman's Association in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Poster for the 4th of July celebration in Oostburg, Wisconsin. The featured entertainment consisted of acts for which the Ben Bergor Entertainment Agency w... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Lobby card advertising the 20th Century-fox film "Chad Hanna." |
| Date: | 08 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Children from Shore Acres Road participated in a circus and sold Kool Aid to raise $7.00 for Roundy's Fun Fund. Front row, left to right are: Michael Seife... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three performing horses stand on platforms in a ring as their trainer gestures proudly in the foreground. Behind the ring are banners decorated with horses... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of one man and two women standing on top of two horses pulling a buggy. The three figures are glued onto the photograph containing the... |
| Date: | 07 30 1962 |
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| Description: | A circus clown on stilts is walking past the audience in the Big Top set up at the Dane County Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 06 24 1964 |
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| Description: | A clown attempts to move a stubborn mule at the 15th annual World's Championship Rodeo at the Holmes No-Oak ranch. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from crowd of a pair of trapeze acrobats performing at a street fair. |
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