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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
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| Description: | A horse, with a man standing in the stirrups of the saddle while twirling a lariat. |
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| Description: | A team of elephants, paired and directed by circus personnel, proceed along an urban street. |
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| Description: | Five circus performers, female and male, sit or stand astride a horse with a tent as a backdrop. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 30 1908 |
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| Description: | The Great Wallace Shows, horses and wagons, were flooded out by a sudden cloudburst. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr.'s wagon show, pulled by horses, travels along a country road. |
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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... |
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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. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
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| Description: | A male circus performer stands lengthwise on the back of a mule, while a female circus performer stands on the ground next to them. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 12 15 1913 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn wagon, filled with University of Wisconsin students dressed as clowns, proceeds along a Madison street as part of a parade. Spectators line ... |
| Date: | 08 29 2003 |
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| Description: | "Our waitress, Megan, joined us when we dined at Trip's in Pipe." |
| Date: | 06 1994 |
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| Description: | "Ossie Reimer of Lomira with his dog, Rusty, entertains patients at Hope Nursing Home." |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Ring 31 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, with the seal of the IBM and a cartoon by Wayne D. Peterson (?) of Ben Bergor with a r... |
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