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"Masks" Layout for the Wrights

Date: 03 26 1941
Description: Portrait of the Wrights (possibly E. Henry & Evelyn M. Wright), a dance team, and their original personality masks.
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Circus Billboard

Date: 08 1901
Description: Professor Oscar John Schendel is pictured with a violin and bow in a billboard advertising "Schendel's All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Ma...
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Schendel's Vaudeville Show, Circus, and Menagerie

Date: 08 23 1901
Description: The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie."
Historical Essay

Ringling Brothers: The Beginnings of the 'Greatest Show on Earth'

Read about the creation and early success of the famous Ringling Brothers circus founded in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

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