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| Description: | Fred and Ella Bradna, equestrian director and performer for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. There are several other performers and a dog, relaxing in t... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a derailed train carrying circus animals and a man op... |
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| Description: | Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Frank B. Miller with a trained spotted stallion, sitting on its rear legs, whose trainer was with the Norris & Rowe shows. They were photographed at winter... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two horses stand next to each other in front of what may be a painted backdrop of a tree-lined street. A male circus performer stands in the center holding... |
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| Description: | Man driving a circus wagon with a cage through town with a team of two horses. The cage is holding a leopard and a girl inside. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man in a parade driving a circus wagon with a cage holding a leopard. A crowd lines the sidewalk on the other side of the street. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching elephants in a circus parade. In the foreground are power lines and telephone poles. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A circus traveling on the road has three cages, the first and second are flying the Confederate flag. A stone at the side of the road says "TO BOSTON." "T... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | View across road of a man with his horse outside the Bar Room. There is a large circus advertisement with elephants and lions painted on the wall of the bu... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bandwagon and animal cage pass in a circus parade. Probably the ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd gathered to watch elephants parade down Main Street. Probably the Ringling Brothers Circus. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a parade of elephants on Pinckney Street, with a man on a horse on the far left, and a crowd of people watching from the sidewalks. The le... |
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