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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Five women drummers with the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus posing with striped drums. They are wearing band uniforms, including large hats to... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of over twenty-six Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants, standing on their rear legs with front legs resting on the elephant ahead. ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children participating in a YMCA circus. |
| Date: | 04 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Six scouts, all members of Den 1, Pack 309, of the Lapham School Cub Scouts, with a toy circus displayed in the window of the F.W. Karstens store, 24 North... |
| Date: | 04 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured are three elephants from Whitbeck Motion Pictures, California, and Robert Zimmerman, assistant secretary of state and board member of Circus Fans ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of three Proudfit Street kids who produced a circus for the benefit of the Ballweg family, victims of a tornado at Springfield Hill. They are, lef... |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus float in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade on street downtown with a large crowd in the street and park... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Advisory board members of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs being entertained by the antics of a circus elephant in the Capitol park duri... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man in a gorilla suit stands on the tongue of a wagon, holding his mask. He is an employee of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd walking the grounds of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition in the early evening. An electric sign on the right says "Terrel Jacobs Wild Animal Circ... |
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