Great Days of the CircusTells the story of the development of the circus. Text includes numerous copies of prints and posters that were put up on barns, store fronts, and fences of backwoods America many years ago. |
Contents
CIRCUS DAY | 10 |
TRICK RIDERS AND MUD SHOWS | 24 |
THE PRINCE OF HUMBUGS | 38 |
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acrobats Adam Forepaugh advertising aerialists AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY American circus ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY audience Bailey's band wagon bareback rider Barnum & Bailey beasts Big Top cage canvas cars center ring Circus Day circus train clown Coup CREST HARPER CREST CREST HARPER HARPER CREST PER CREST crowd CULVER PICTURES Dan Rice dancing daring elephants Emmett Kelly equestrian exhibition feet Floating Palace Forepaugh Forepaugh-Sells Golden Age Grand Greatest Show Hachaliah HARP HARPER CREST HARPER HARPER HARPER CREST HARVARD THEATRE COLLECTION high wire hippodrome horses huge Joice Heth Jumbo lady Léotard LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lion London menagerie miles mud show Museum named NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY P. T. Barnum parade wagons performance phants Philip Astley poster railroad rat-sheet Rice Ricketts riding Ringling Bros Ringling brothers Robinson RPER SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC Show on Earth showmen stars tent tigers Tom Thumb tour town trainer trick troupe wagon show Wallenda whistle York