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Description: | Wooden walkway leading to covered outdoor platform with tables and benches, and to a building beyond. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | A crowd, including Evaline, Nellie and Harriet Bennett, looking at large banner advertisements for moving pictures. Moving picture subjects include fire fi... |
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Description: | A crowd is standing in front of a tent advertised as the "Temple of Music." |
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Description: | Circus clown, "Bumpsy" Anthony, stands in front of a tent. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Circus performer Harriet Hodgini, sits on the gate of a truck helping Otto Griebling, a circus clown, apply his makeup. |
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Description: | A clown in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus standing outside a tent near a wagon, with his left hand holding onto a tent rope. He is wearing a beret-style hat,... |
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Description: | "Diamond Kitty," a performer with the Shrine Circus, poses with a large group of people in front of the sideshow tent housing the "World's Fattest People" ... |
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Description: | A group of 11 circus clowns poses with a pretty young female performer in a circus tent. This could possibly be part of a movie set. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
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Description: | Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop. |
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. ... |
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Description: | A crowd of circus goers gathers outside the tent of the Cole Brothers Combined Side Shows, with acts announced by a barker standing on a platform. |
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Description: | Three young boys, kneeling in the grass, peer into a circus tent at the elephants. |
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Description: | A group of 20+ circus clowns posing informally while preparing for the ring. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | As part of an Easter tableau, a statue of Mary Magdalene at the entrance to what is a depiction of Jesus' tomb, is mirrored by a young girl in similar garb... |
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: | 1904 |
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Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
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Description: | A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers. |
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Description: | An overview of the Norris & Rowe Circus setup on tour in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The show toured Canada and Mexico and played to packed houses. |
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