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Description: | State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Jennie and Edgar Krueger's cat Tramp dressed up in old boys' clothes and sitting in a rocking chair. The cat has its paws on a board that has been placed o... |
Date: | 06 29 1932 |
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Description: | Hommel's Star Food Store at 606 S. Park Street, with promotional truck in front of store, and children looking on. Vehicle (Ballyhoo Truck) has a painted s... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Workers relaxing outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. One group is crowded around a stage listening to a band while others are playing baseba... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
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Description: | Dell Hammel offering tickets for a Shriner Circus sideshow of Dancing Girls. There are good indications that this photograph has been manipulated and is a ... |
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Description: | Wagon number 20, advertising Albert M. Wetter's 3 Big Shows & World's Menagerie, is parked at a curb next to a private residence. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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Description: | Arthur Santell is pulling three Pontiac automobiles, each with a man on the running board, with his teeth in front of General Auto Service and Henry Motor ... |
Date: | 09 23 1932 |
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Description: | Three entertainers, Ben Turpin, Walter Hiers, and Snub Pollard, at J.R. Licari & Sons, 767 W. Washington. Greenbush Walter is filling Snub's cigarette ligh... |
Date: | 08 23 1930 |
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Description: | An audience in the grandstand at the Dane County Fair watches two men in a stunt automobile advertising the RKO film, "Dixiana." |
Date: | 11 05 1928 |
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Description: | Mautz Cigars and Billards window display, 832 University Avenue, advertising Chesterfield Cigarettes with a football motif. |
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Description: | A long string of circus elephants parades single file down a metropolitan street lined on both sides by huge crowds of people. |
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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: | People gather near a circus poster display advertising side show attractions. |
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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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Description: | Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent. |
Date: | 08 23 1901 |
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Description: | The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie." |
Date: | 08 22 1953 |
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Description: | Mary Ellen Jenks, Alice in Dairyland in 1953, dressed in a formal gown, standing with a cow, a clown, and another woman in a Golden Guernsey display. |
Date: | 04 18 1944 |
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Description: | Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest. |
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