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| Description: | Theatrical scene depicting a gorilla standing on a small side stage holding up a top hat and looking towards an audience gathered in the foreground. Behind... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View from a crowd of people watching horse-drawn circus wagons parading on a dirt road at Circus World Museum. Behind the wagon is a man dressed in a red a... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A clown on stilts is pointing towards the left. Behind him a crowd of people are standing in a line. Two circus wagons are behind the crowd, one an animal ... |
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| Description: | A man is posing with a badger on a leash by the Armory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. He is wearing thickly quilted, light-colored pants, a... |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown, J. Leigh, is warming up make-up with his hands to make it more pliable before applying it to his face. |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown, J. Leigh, is painting his eyebrows. |
| Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t... |
| Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Talking to the ringmaster at a Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus show is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economic... |
| Date: | 08 02 1955 |
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| Description: | Dr. Esther Kurtz greeting famous clown Emmett Kelly and his wife, Elvira, at a dinner sponsored by the Madison Wallenda Tent Chapter of Circus Fans of Amer... |
| Date: | 08 02 1955 |
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| Description: | Dr. C.M. Kurtz and his son, John, (right) greet trapeze artist Antoinette BisBini (left) and circusman Bob Dover at a dinner for circus performers sponsore... |
| Date: | 08 02 1955 |
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| Description: | Circus performers and fans at a dinner sponsored by the Madison Wallenda Tent chapter of Circus Fans of America at the Ace of Clubs. Standing are Mr. and M... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Water comedian, Eddie Rose, of the Sam Snyder's Water Follies performing his routine jumping off a high-level diving board during a show at Breese Stevens ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Happy faces of adults and children in the audience crowd at the Shrine-Knights of Columbus benefit show at Breese Stevens Field. |
| Date: | 08 07 1957 |
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| Description: | A handicapped child is enjoying the Shrine-Knights of Columbus benefit show at Breese Stevens Field. Her crutches are laying beside her chair. Her T-shirt ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A girl tries some acrobatic moves on a rope at Acrobat School, Circus World Museum, a Wisconsin Historical Society site. The silhouette of another acrobat ... |
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