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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd watching a woman in a chariot driving four horses in a circus parade in town. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Circus performers posed in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society, then known as the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Fred and Ella Bradna, equestrian director and performer for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. There are several other performers and a dog, relaxing in t... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A giant and other circus performers, including Harry and Daisy Earles, posing in front of a Midwest Air Transport airplane while a crowd is watching from b... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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: | 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: | 07 1973 |
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| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Musicians with the Gollmar Brothers Circus pose in front of banners advertising the circus sideshow features near the entrance to the museum annex tent. |
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| Description: | A group of people posed among tents, probably a traveling medicine show. On the table in the foreground, a contortionist is visible. A banner above a stage... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Roundy Couglin and members of the Dodson Imperial Shows at Camp Wawbeek, where they had gone to entertain the 93 children camping there. ... |
| 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... |
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