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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1891
Description: Back cover illustration of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows children and adults, some of them circus performers, inside a large tent...
Poster

Dane County Jr. Fair Poster

Date: 07 1973
Description: Poster advertising for the Dane County Jr. Fair at the Madison fairgrounds, July 18 through 22, 1973. Features a screen printed illustration of a clown, a ...
Poster

Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus Poster

Date: 08 1972
Description: Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, advertised as the World's largest, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Groun...
Poster

Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Combined Circus Poster

Date: 08 1972
Description: Poster advertising for the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers combined Circus, which took place August 30, 1972 at the Madison Fair Grounds in Madison, Wisconsin. ...
Poster

Circus Parade Poster

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Description: Colorful poster depicting parade with circus wagons in foreground, and circus tents in the background. "Seal Brothers gorgeous gift to all-at noon a Mammot...
Poster

Circus Poster

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Description: Circus poster "Christy Bros. 5 Ring Wild Animal Show."
Poster

Circus Poster

Date: 07 12
Description: Ringling Bros. and Barnun and Bailey combined shows poster, depicting wire walkers and other performers under a circus tent. "The only act of its kind" fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Circus Lore

Date: 1937
Description: Cover of "Wisconsin Circus Lore" written by the Federal Writer's Project in Wisconsin and bound by the Milwaukee Handicraft Project. The cover features a d...
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...
Print

"Chad Hanna" Lobby Card

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

Banner Line

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Description: The banner line at the entrance of the Circus World Museum.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Delavan's Circus Colony Historic Marker

Date: 08 09 1963
Description: Gordon Yadon, a member of the Mabie Brothers circus tent, and Mary Lou Lawrence, aerialist and trapeze artist, reading the historical marker documenting De...

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