The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey canvas crew setting up in the parking lot of Chicago’s Soldier Field, July 18, 1951. – Chris Berry (Charles Cushman...
M.L. Clark and Son’s Combined Shows M.L. Clark’s Herd of Performing Elephants (c.1910) Donaldson Litho Co. – One Sheet Mack Loren (M.L.) Clark and his brother Wylie (W.C.) first started in the mud show business about 1885. Their circus – The...
“Country Roads – Take Me Home….” Imagine traveling on this dirt road in about 1915 and seeing a spectacular daub for Sells-Floto brightening up an otherwise drab scene. The posters are not clear enough to identify – except for the title...
Snap Wyatt Sideshow Banners – Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus This view of the 1961 Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. midway shows not only the big top in the distance, but also the bannerline painted by the best known of sideshow artists, David “Snap” Wyatt. Originally...
Photographer Leslie Jones had a tremendous vantage point for this picture taken at Boston’s North Station yards in 1933. Note how many camels were with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey that season – no doubt a featured part of THE DURBAR OF DELHI...
