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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Circus and Rodeo photographs, circa 1875-circa 1940
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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | People stand in line to purchase tickets at a Barnum & Bailey Circus ticket wagon near the main tent. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A street carnival on the Capitol Square in which two individuals perform together while suspended in the air. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Two early Ringling Brothers' circus clowns, whose photographs appeared in the "Ringling Annual" under a section titled "Last of the Old-Time Clowns". |
| 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... |
| 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.... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| 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... |
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