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| Date: | 1937 |
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| 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... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm... |
| Date: | 08 20 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd gathered to watch elephants parade down Main Street. Probably the Ringling Brothers Circus. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 07 30 1962 |
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| Description: | A circus clown on stilts is walking past the audience in the Big Top set up at the Dane County Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 02 25 1965 |
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| Description: | Mary Lou Lawrence, and assistant Larry Ruhl, watching an act at the Zor Temple-William Kay Shrine circus performance at the Dane County Fairground Arena. M... |
| Date: | 08 09 1963 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View from a crowd of people watching horse-drawn circus wagons parading on a dirt road at Circus World Museum. Behind the wagon is a man dressed in a red a... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A clown on stilts is pointing towards the left. Behind him a crowd of people are standing in a line. Two circus wagons are behind the crowd, one an animal ... |
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| Description: | A man is posing with a badger on a leash by the Armory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. He is wearing thickly quilted, light-colored pants, a... |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown, J. Leigh, is warming up make-up with his hands to make it more pliable before applying it to his face. |
| Date: | 04 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine clown, J. Leigh, is painting his eyebrows. |
| Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t... |
| Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Talking to the ringmaster at a Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus show is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economic... |
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