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Circus Performers with Laundry

Date: 
Description: Five women circus performers in full costume pose behind a clothesline upon which bras, underwear, gloves and socks hang to dry.
Photograph

Convention Floorshow

Date: 02 1954
Description: Elevated view of entertainment at the annual convention of the Wisconsin Retail Lumberman's Association in Milwaukee.
Poster

Fourth of July Poster

Date: 1950
Description: Poster for the 4th of July celebration in Oostburg, Wisconsin. The featured entertainment consisted of acts for which the Ben Bergor Entertainment Agency w...
Photograph

Strong Lady

Date: 
Description: Triptych studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman in a circus costume lifting weights over her head.
Print

"Chad Hanna" Lobby Card

Date: 1940
Description: Lobby card advertising the 20th Century-fox film "Chad Hanna."
Photograph

Children Raise Money for Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 20 1956
Description: Children from Shore Acres Road participated in a circus and sold Kool Aid to raise $7.00 for Roundy's Fun Fund. Front row, left to right are: Michael Seife...
Photograph

Performing Horses

Date: 1924
Description: Three performing horses stand on platforms in a ring as their trainer gestures proudly in the foreground. Behind the ring are banners decorated with horses...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a calliope and chariot riders in a circus parade, probably the Ringl...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bell wagon pass in a circus parade, probably the Ringling Brothe...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered to watch elephants parade down Main Street. Probably the Ringling Brothers Circus.
Photograph

The Hocums

Date: 1903
Description: Composite photograph of one man and two women standing on top of two horses pulling a buggy. The three figures are glued onto the photograph containing the...
Historical Essay

Scotch Giant (F.W. Shadick) 1813-1854

Circus Performer
Biography of Circus Performer Frederick W. Shadick.
Historical Essay

Newhall House Hotel Fire

The Tragedy of January 10, 1883
Read about the tragic fire that burned down Milwaukee landmark, the Newhall House Hotel, leaving 76 dead.
Historical Essay

Let's Go to the Circus! - Image Gallery Essay

Circus images from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Elephants

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of large crowd of people watching elephants from the Ringling Brothers Circus turning the corner of First and Main Streets.
Postcard

Banner Line

Date: 
Description: The banner line at the entrance of the Circus World Museum.
Photograph

Grace May Hall as a Circus Child

Date: 1891
Description: Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck.
Photograph

Moss-haired Girl

Date: 
Description: Woman coiffed as a "moss-haired girl" or a "Circassian beauty." A literary tradition exists for the Circassian beauties, but in the United States they achi...
Photograph

Rose Dockrill and George Holland

Date: 
Description: Rose Dockrill, daughter of Barnum and Bailey Circus equestrian Elise Dockrill, and her husband George E. Holland, son of George F. Holland, who was a famou...
Photograph

Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus

Date: 07 30 1962
Description: A circus clown on stilts is walking past the audience in the Big Top set up at the Dane County Fairgrounds.

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