Hagenbeck-Wallace visited St. Louis on May 9, 1934 and photographer Charles Trefts positioned himself at the spot where the circus parade would make a u-turn on Market Street and head back to the showgrounds. What a glorious day that must have been, now frozen in...
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...
Circus fans in the United States often tend to focus on American circuses of our youth rather than the impact of Circuses internationally. In the immediate years following World War II, European circuses became a major form of entertainment on a continent still...
Sells and Gray Circus, Edgerton, Wisconsin, July 9, 1967.Photo by Sverre O. Braathen.Special Collections at Milner Library, Illinois State University Under the Marquee is the Circus Historical Society Blog. It is a place for discussion of Circus History – Past,...
