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Tibbals Circus Collection of Tickets, Passes and Coupons, 1840 - 1999

Overview

Administrative Information

Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Related Materials

Subject Headings

List of Circuses represented in the Collection

Contents of the Collection

Overview

Repository Archives

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

5401 Bay Shore Road

Sarasota, Florida 34243

[email protected]

Creator Tibbals, Howard C., 1936 – 2022

Title Tibbals Circus Collection of Tickets, Passes and Coupons

Dates 1826 - 2009

Physical Description 8 linear feet

Physical Description 6745 items

Language English, French, German, Spanish

Arrangement Alphabetical order by name of circus followed by

chronological order.

Summary This collection holds a treasure trove of eloquent, but often

humble tickets, passes and coupons to circuses and

sideshows, fairs, minstrel shows, carnivals, railways,

expositions, exhibitions, concerts, excursions, zoos and

spectacles. Many have survived over the course of nearly

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two hundred years holding documentation of these events.

True to the notion of ephemera, these items were intended

to have a fleeting lifespan, and in most cases, pass between

individuals with little fanfare. Admission tickets generally

bear the word “Admit” accompanied by a number or space

or name or names. An admission ticket is normally

distinguished from a ticket received at the time of entry as a

receipt for payment. It is essentially a document of advance

engagement. This collection holds tickets with seating

information specifying one seat or chair, general admission,

reserved seating, preferred seating, arena floor, grandstand,

and balcony seating or a ride. And, tickets that stipulate:

admit one; admit two; working boy; water boy; boy; girl; a

child, 2 or more children; special school children; high

school; circus daddy; driver; trainmaster; guest; adult;

family; helper; bill poster; worker; press; extra help; door

check or sponsorship. There are admission; advance sale,

courtesy, complimentary, souvenir, contest, excursion,

lithograph order, exchange, requisition, half price and

discount tickets as well as those to see the animals and to

kiss the elephant. Employee tickets include those for the

annex, circus railway mileage, meals, commissary, parking,

opening day banquet and lot access. The majority of the

collection consists of full tickets as opposed to ticket stubs.

There are ticket books and rolls of tickets as well.

Passes include those for complimentary single seating, or

for providing annual, season, or lifetime access. Single

seating passes stipulate those for a band member,

roustabout, news boy, press-radio-tv, advertisers, special

industry and rental exchange, and local officials. Employee

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and performer passes provide access to the backyard, a

performance, lot and wagons and may be specified by

department.

There are a scant number of coupons for exchange,

discounts and children. The majority of this collection is

printed on paper or card stock with exceptions for those

printed on metal and cloth. This collection is in a sundry of

shapes and sizes.

Administrative Information

Provenance Howard Tibbals assembled this collection from purchases

made at auctions, from individuals and other circus

collectors including James Dunwoody and Harold Dunn.

Information about Access Use of certain materials is restricted by statute, by the

office of origin, or by the donor. For the protection of its

collections, the Archives also reserves the right to restrict

access to records which are not arranged, are being

processed, or are exceptionally valuable or fragile. In some

cases, copies may be substituted for the originals.

Ownership & Copyright Copyright status for the material is unknown. Transmission

or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright

Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use

requires the written permission of the copyright owners.

Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially

exploited without permission of the copyright owners.

Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Cite As Credit must be given to any use of materials. The credit line

should read: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,

Florida State University, Tibbals Circus Collection of

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Tickets, Passes, and Coupons and should include the box

and folder listing.

Processing Notes Processed by Deanna Belch and H. Connor, December

2015. Updated November 2017 by H. Connor.

Historical Note

Tickets are a type of a receipt. They are used to entitle the holder to a service such as

entertainment or transportation or they can be a record of a transaction.

Metal tokens remain from ancient Rome. Subsequent tickets have been made of ivory, semi

precious metals and beginning in the 18

th

century forward tickets have been printed on paper, card

stock or paste board.

Admission tickets are generally, those that have the word admit printed on them along with a

number or a space or name or names. Admission tickets are different than tickets that are

received as a receipt for a service. According to Maurice Rickards, they are document of up-

coming ceremonial events such as a coronation or wedding as well as concerts, entrance to

exhibitions, zoos, and other places of interest and entertainment.

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Tickets come in many forms,

from elaborate to simple. They are ephemeral in nature, generally being torn in half to prevent

their reuse. Passes provide privileged access and are associated with the implication of special

exception.

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In the late 19

th

century, coupons were used as a marketing tool to create and maintain product

mass demand. As an inducement scheme, consumers were rewarded for their product loyalty

with a coupon. Coupon gifts were designed to be collected and later exchanged by patrons for a

“present.” This practice originated in 1851 by soap maker Benjamin Babbitt of New York.

Scope and Content Note

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Rickards, Maurice. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, 2000.

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Rickards, Maurice. The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, 2000.

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The Tibbals Ticket, Pass, and Coupon Collection is predominately a collection of circus

ephemera. Admission tickets are the greatest portion of the collection. There are tickets with

seating information specifying one seat or chair, general admission, reserved seating, preferred

seating, arena floor, grandstand, and balcony seating or a ride. And, tickets that stipulate who the

ticket is for: admit one; admit two; working boy; water boy; boy; girl; a child, 2 or more

children; special school children; high school; circus daddy; driver; trainmaster; guest; adult;

family; helper; bill poster; worker; press; extra help; door check or sponsorship. There are

admission; advance sale, courtesy, complimentary, souvenir, contest, excursion, lithograph order,

half price and discount tickets as well as those to see the animals and to kiss the elephant.

Employee tickets include those for the annex, circus railway mileage, meals, commissary,

parking, opening day banquet and lot access.

The majority of the collection consists of full tickets as opposed to ticket stubs. There are ticket

books and rolls of tickets as well.

Passes include those for complimentary single seating, or for providing annual, season, or

lifetime access. Single seating passes stipulate those for a band member, roustabout, news boy,

press-radio-tv, advertisers, special industry and rental exchange, and local officials. Employee

and performer passes provide access to the backyard, a performance, lot and wagons and may be

specified by department. Press, canvas, and wagon department passes are signed by a department

representatives to be valid for use.

There are a scant number of coupons for exchange, discounts and children. The majority of this

collection is printed on paper or card stock with exceptions for those printed on metal and cloth.

This collection is in a sundry of shapes and sizes.

Related Materials

Tibbals Circus Collection of Route Books, Route Sheets and Route Cards

Tibbals Circus Collection of Programs

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Ticket

Coupon ballot

List of Circuses represented in the Collection

101 Ranch Real Wild West and Great Far East, no date

50th Anniversary Celebration of the Ringling Bros. Show, 1933

A Night in the Lands of Gold, 1854

Adam Forepaugh, 1905

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros America's Greatest Shows, 1898, 1904, 1910

Adam Forepaugh (Great Forepaugh) Show Museum, Menagerie, Triple Circus, and Roman

Hippodrome, 1883

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros., 1886-1907, 1910-1911

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros. Big United Shows, 1910

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros. Enormous Shows United, 1910

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros. Shows United, 1905

Adam Forepaugh's New and Greatest All Feature Show, 1901

Adam Forepaugh's New Olympia, 1867-1894

Adam Forepaugh's New Trained Animal Show, 1880

Adams and Sells Circus, 1960-1961

Adams Bros. & Seils Bros. Circus, 1959

Adams Bros. Circus, 1928-1929, 1937, 1957-1958

Adams Bros. Circus and Seils Bros. World Toured Shows Combined, 1959

Adams-Floto, 1940

Al F. Wheeler's New Model Shows, 1903-1910, 1915-1917, 1924-1932

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Al G. Barnes and Sells-Floto Combined Circus, 1937-1938

Al G. Barnes Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1906-1938

Al G. Barnes Big 4 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1906-1938

Al G. Barnes Big 5 Ring Circus, 1929

Al G. Barnes Circus, 1906-1938

Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus, 1906-1938

Al G. Clark and Bros., 1974-1980

Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. 2nd Largest Wild Animal Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Wild Animal Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Zoo, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. 2nd Largest Circus, 1956

Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. 2nd Largest Wild Animal Circus, 1952

Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Al G. Kelly and Miller Bros. Wild Animal Circus, 1950

Al Ringling Theater, no date

Aladdin Shrine Circus, 1956

Ali Ghan Temple Shrine Spectacular, 1979

All American Circus, 1978

All New Ford Bros. Wild Animal Circus, 1983

Allan C. Hill Productions, no date

Allan C. Hill Productions Presents Great American Circus, 1991

Allentown Police Circus, 1948

Almas Temple's 21st Annual Shrine Circus, 1962

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Al's Old Circus Calliope, no date

American Big Top Circus, 1983

American Circus, 1875, 1886-1889, 1896, 1929, 1939, 1978-1981, 1985-1994

American Circus, 1985-1994

American Circus (Allan C. Hill), 1985-1994

American Combined Circus, 1939

The American Exhibition, World’s Fair, London, 1887

American National Circus, no date

American School Circus, no date

Animaland USA, 1960

Ararat Shrine Circus, 1968

Arizona Joe's Wild West Shows, 1913

Arter Bros. Charleston Community Circus, 1958

Arthur Bros. Circus, 1944

Ashton's Circus, no date

Astley's Royal Ampitheatre, 1840

Austin Bros., 1945

Austin Bros. Circus, 1945

Ayres and Kathryn Davies Circus, 1947-1950

Bailey Bros., 1917-1920, 1935-1938, 1944-1948, 1951, 1953, 1959-1960, 1964-1968

Bailey Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1948

Bailey Bros. Circus, 1917-1920

Bailey Bros. New Circus, 1917-1920, 1935-1938, 1944-1948, 1951, 1953, 1959-1960, 1964-

1968

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Balkan States Exhibition, 1907

Barker Bros Circus & Rodeo Thrill Show, no date

Barnes and Bailey Second Largest Circus, 1964

Barnes' Famous Diving Elks, no date

Barnett Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1930

Barnett Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1928-1949

Barnett Bros. Circus, 1928-1936, 1938-1939, 1945

Barney Bros. Circus, 1926, 1935-1938

Barney O'Hearn World Wide Circus, 1946

Barnum & Bailey, 1888-1918

Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1908

Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1897

Barnum & Bailey Shows, 1889

Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, 1904

Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1918

Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1888-1918

Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, 1889

Barnum and London United Shows, 1885

Barnum and London’s United 8 Shows, 1881-1885

Barnum, [P.T.] no date

Barnum, [P.T.], American Museum, 1940

Barnum, [P.T.], and Co's Great Shows and Adam Forepaugh's Colossal Aggregation, 1887

Barnum, [P.T.], and the Great London Circus, 1882

Barnum, [P.T.], Complimentary Dinner, 1874

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Barnum, [P.T.], Great New York Roman Hippodrome, 1874

Barnum, [P.T.], Great Traveling World Fair, 1875

Barnum, [P.T.], Greatest Show on Earth, 1898

Barnum, [P.T.], Kaleidoscape -Feld Enterprise, 1999

Barnum, [P.T.], Lecture Hall, 1882

Barnum, [P.T.], Mammoth Combined Muzee, no date

Barnum, [P.T.],'s Great Roman Hippodrome, 1874

Barnum, [P.T.],'s Greatest Show on Earth, no date

Barnum's, P. T. Traveling World's Fair, 1875

Barnum-London Consolidation, 1884

Barr Bros. Circus, 1942-1946

Bartok Circus, 1967-1972

Bartok Circus Hunt, 1967-1972

Barton & Bailey World Celebrated Shows, 1915

Batcheller & Doris' Great Railroad Show Menagerie & Circus, 1879-1882

Batcheller and Doris' Great Inter-Ocean Largest Show on Earth, 1879-1882

Bays Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1935

Beebe Bros. Circus, 1947

Beers-Barnes Circus, 1932-1966

Believe It Or Not, 1993

Benmar Bros. Combined Animal Shows, 1927

Bentley Bros. Circus, 1978-

Berger Family and Sol Smith Russell, 1860

Berkley Bros. Circus and Carl Clark's Trained Animals, 1934

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Bidwell and Wrighter's Progressive Shows, 1912

Big Apple Circus, 1984

Big Circus, 1992

Big John Strong Circus Under the Big Top, no date

Big John Strong International Circus, 1973

Bill Cody Ranch Wild West and Bostock's Wild Animal Circus, no date

Bill Cody Ranch Wild West and Walter L. Main Circus, 1931

Bill McGaw's Motor Circus, 1957

Biller Bros. 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1949-1951

Biller Bros. Circus, 1949-1951

Billy Arlington Lecture: Life's Problem, 1913

Birnam Bros. Great 3 Ring Circus, 1964-1966

Blue Ribbon Shows, no date

Boas Brothers Circus, 1968

Bob Dickman Circus and 101 Ranch Wild West Combined, 1945-1946

Bob Taber's Animal Chautauqua, no date

Bob Taber's Chautauqua and Animal Show, no date

Bond Bros. Circus, 1945

Bostock & Wombwell's Master United Shows, no date

Bostock's Wild Animal Circus, 1899, 1913, 1932

Boston Museum, 1856

Bouglione, no date

Boumi Temple Shrine Circus, 1991

Bradley and Benson's Combined Circus, 1944-1946

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Bradley's Circus, no date

Brighton Aquarium, 1883

Broekmann's Celebrated Circus and Trained Animal Show, 1876

Buck Jones Wild West Shows and Round Up Days, 1929

Buck Owens Circus, 1946

Bud E. Anderson 3 Ring Circus, 1923-1925, 1939-1941, 1944-1945

Bud Hawkins Trained Animal Circus, 1936

Buffalo Bill's and Pawnee Bill's, 1909-1913

Buffalo Bill's Original Wild West Rocky Mountain and Prairie Exhibition, 1883

Buffalo Bill's Wild West, 1897

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, 1883-1913, 1971, 1977,

1980, 1983

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Combined with Pawnee Bill's Great Far East, 1912

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Combined With Pawnee Bill's Great Far East, 1909

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Pawnee Bill's Far East, 1910

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 1971, 1977-1980, 1983

Burling Bros. Circus, 1949-1955

Busby Bros. Shows, 1902-1904

Butte, Anaconda, & Pacific Railway Company, 1908

California Frank's All Star Wild West, 1909-1914

California Pacific International Exposition, 1939

Cambridge Fair, 1937

Camel Bros. Wild Animal Circus, 1929, 1937

Campbell Bros. Great Consolidated Shows, 1909

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Campbell Bros. Great Consolidated Shows (Miniature), 1943

Campbell Bros. Shows, 1907

Capell Bros. Circus, 1949-1953

Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Shows Combined, 1907

Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Shows Combined Colossal 3 Ring Circus, 1907

Carl Hagenbeck's Tierpark Stellingen, no date

Carson and Barnes 5 Ring Circus, 1977

Carson and Barnes Big 5 Ring Circus, 1977

Carson and Barnes Big Wild Animal Circus, 1957-1963, 1965-

Carson and Barnes Circus, 1957-1963, 1965-

Carson and Barnes Wild Animal Circus, 1957-1963, 1965-

Carter Dramatic Company, no date

Cavalcade of Amusements, no date

CBS Television Network The Circus Hall of Fame The World's Greatest Circus Stars, 1966

Central Park Menagerie and Den Stone's Circus, 1872-1873

Charles Bros. Continental Circus, 1974

Chas Collier's Original Silas Green From New Orleans Co., 1934

Chas. Collier's Original Silas Green from New Orleans, 1942

Christy Bros., 1920-1930

Christy Bros. Big 4 Ring Wild Animal Shows, 1924

Christy Bros. Shows, 1920-1930

Christy Wild Animal Circus, 1920-1930

Cincinnati, Lebanon, & Northern Railway, 1917

Circo Loyal Americano Preferencia Nino, no date

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Circus America, 1898-1990, 1995-1996.

Circus Bartok, 1967-1972

Circus Bruno, 1988-1990

Circus Carnaval "Beas Modelo", 1934

Circus City Festival, 1960

Circus City Festival Circus, 1964

Circus Fans Association of America Annual Convention, 1964

Circus Farm, 1950s-1974

Circus Franz Althoff, 1937-1968

Circus Hall of Fame, 1956-1980

Circus Hall of Fame presents George Hanneford Family Circus, 2008

Circus Inn, 1949

Circus Kingdom, 1991

Circus Kirk, 1969

Circus Kirk 3 Rings Under the Big Top, 1969-1978

Circus Kirk 3 Rings Under the Big Top Biggest Brass Band, 1971

Circus Kirk Under the Big Top 10th Annual Tour, 1977

Circus Krone, 1905-

Circus Marantha 14th Annual, 1993

Circus Pages, 1991

Circus Royale, 1963-1964, 1986-

Circus Vargas, 1974-

Circus Vargas America's Big Top Giant, 1974-

Circus Vargas Under the Big Top, 1974

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Circus Vargas Under the World's Largest Travelling Big Top, 1975

Circus World Museum, 1960

Circus World Museum- American Bicentennial Circus, 1992

Cirkus Arli, no date

Cirque du Soleil La Nouba, 1999

Cirque International, no date

Clark & Walters Wild Animal Circus, 1964-1972

Clark and Walters Circus, 1964-1972

Clayton's Combined Circus, 1937

Clayton's Combined Circus and Menagerie, 1937

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus, 1959-

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus World's Largest, 1959-

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros Combined Circus World's Largest Circus Under the Big Top, 1959-

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus, 1959-

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus Coliseum Christmas Circus and Holiday Festival, 1962-1963

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Combined Circus, 1966

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Combined Circus World's Largest, 1959

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Combined Circus World's Largest Circus Under the Big Top, 1978

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. World's Largest Under the Big Top Circus, 1959-

Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros. Circus the World's Largest Circus Under the Big Top, 1989

Clyde Beatty 3 Ring Circus, 1958

Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. Circus, 1959-

Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros. Circus, 1944

Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros. Combined Circus, 1944

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Clyde Beatty Circus, 1941-1942, 1945-1958

Clyde Beatty Gigantic Railroad Circus, 1941-1942-1945-1958

Clyde Beatty Railroad Circus, 1941-1942, 1945-1958

Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1945

Clyde Bros. Circus, 1943-1978, 1991-1999

Coalport Opera House, no date

Col. Cody's Home - Coming, 1909

Col. Tim McCoy's Real Wild West, 1938

Cole & Rogers Combined Shows, 1905-1906, 1911, 1928-1921, 1934

Cole All-Star Circus, no date

Cole and Walters Circus, 1950-1953

Cole and Younger Combined Circus, no date

Cole Bros. - Clyde Beatty Circus, 1937

Cole Bros. Circus, 1940

Cole Bros. Circus America's Favorite Circus, 1947

Cole Bros. Circus America's Favorite Railroad Show, 1949

Cole Bros. Circus America's Favorite Show, 1941

Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars World's Largest Circus Under the Big Top, 1906-1909, 1912-

1913, 1916-1924, 1929-1930, 1935-1952

Cole Bros. Circus Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders, 1937-1940

Cole Bros. Circus with Clyde Beatty, 1935

Cole Bros. Circus with Clyde Beatty and Ken Maynard, 1937

Cole Bros. World Toured Shows, 1906-1909, 1912-1913, 1916-1924, 1929-1930, 1935-1952

Cole Bros. World's Greatest Circus, 1906-1909, 1912-1913, 1916-1924, 1929-1930, 1935-1952

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Cole Bros. World's Greatest Shows, 1939

Cole Brothers Circus, 1906-1909, 1912-1913, 1916-1924, 1929-1930, 1935-1952

Cole Brothers Circus with Clyde Beatty, 1937

Cole Brothers Circus with Clyde Beatty and Ken Maynard, 1937

Cole's Circus-Land, no date

Community Fair, Inc., 1945

Conejo Valley Optimist Club Circus Produced by Big John Strong Circus, no date

Conklin Shows for Terrell Jacobs, 1940s

Conklin Shows The World's Finest, 1942

Continental Circus, 1974, 1982, 1993

Cook Brothers World's Greatest Shows, Inc., 1911

Cooper Bros. Circus, 1909, 1916-1917, 1920-1927, 1930, 1936-1937, 1943-1949

Cooper Bros. Shows, 1909, 1916-1917, 1920-1927, 1930, 1936-1937, 1943-1949

Cooper, Bailey and Co International Allied Shows, 1876-1880

Cooper, Bailey, and Co's Great Combination Shows, 1876-1880

Cooper, Bailey, and Co's Great International 10 Allied Shows in Onee, 1876-1880

Cooper, Bailey, and Co's Great International Allied Shows in Onee, 1876-1880

Couchman Bros. Shows, no date

Cow Palace, 1950s

Cremorne Gardens Balloon Ascent "Le Geant", 1845-1877

Cristiani Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1956-1960

Cristiani Bros. 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1956

Cristiani Bros. Circus, 1956-1960

Cristiani Bros. Circus Rain or Shine Under the Big Top, 1960

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Cristiani Bros. Gigantic 3 Ring Circus, 1957

Cristiani-Wallace Bros. Circus, 1956-1960

Cristiani-Wallace Bros. Combined Circus, 1962

Cronin Bros. Circus, 1948

Crystal Palace, 1857

Crystal Palace Aquarium, 1874-1875

Culpepper and Merriweather Circus, 1985-

Culpepper and Merriweather Great Combined Circus, 1985-

Curtis-Gregg Fashion Plate Circus, 1934

Curtis-Gregg Fashion Plate Circus Big 3 Ring, 1934

D. B. Wharton's Great All-Star, 1968-1971

Dailey Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1940-1950, 1963-1964, 1974-1975

Dailey Bros. 5 Ring Circus, 1940-1950, 1963-1964, 1974-1975

Dailey Bros. 5 Ring Railroad Circus, 1948

Dailey Bros. Big Railroad Circus, 1940-1950, 1963-1964, 1974-1975

Dailey Bros. Circus, 1945

Dailey Bros. Circus 5 Ring Railroad Circus, 1940-1950, 1963-1964, 1974-1975

Dailey Bros. Tented Circus, 1940-1950, 1963-1964, 1974-1975

Dales Bros. Circus, 1948-1950

Dales Circus, 1948-1950

Daley Bros. Circus, 1940s

Dan Rice Circus and Buck Sells Wild West, 1848-1879, 1917, 1936-1937, 1945

Davidson Bros. Circus, 1929

D'esta Fun Makers, no date

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DeWayne Bros. Circus, 1947-1972

Dexter W. Fellows presents Josephine Lucchese and Robert Ringling, 1923

Diamond S Rodeo and Wild West Show, no date

Diamond S Rodeo Wild West Show, 1976

Diano Bros. Circus, 1953

Dix Bros. Circus, 1945

Dixie Ok Shows, no date

Dode Fisk Shows, 1906-1910

Dodson's World Fair Shows, Inc., 1915, 1923-1945

Don Robinson Ameri-Congo Animal Circus Combined, no date

Downie and Wheelers World's Best Shows Combined, 1912

Downie Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1926-1939, 1983-1989, 1994

Downie Bros. Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1930s

Downie Bros. Big 3 Ring Wilid Animal Circus, Museum, Menagerie The Largest Motor Circus

in the World, 1926-1939, 1983-1989, 1994

Downie Bros. Circus, 1932

Downie's World's Best Dog and Pony Shows, 1905, 1909-1911, 1924

Drake Bros. Circus and Trained Wild Animal Shows, 1929

Drew's World Fair Shows, 1960

Ducrow's Benefit, 1842

Dunn Bros. Miniature Circus, no date

Dunn Brothers Circus, 1953

Dunn's Circus Movie, 1986

Dykes and Wharton Combined Vaudeville Circus, 1967

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Eastern Circus, 1872-1874, 1875, 1881, 1883, 1886-1889, 1895-1897, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1910-

1914

Eastern Menagerie, Museum, Aviary, Circus, Roman Hippodrome and Egyptian Caravan, no

date

Eddie Kuhn's 3 Ring Circus, 1936-1937

Eddy Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1937

Edward's Wonderland Shows, 1913

Endy Bros. Shows, 1923 - 1934, 1940

Eric B. Hyde Shows World's Largest Midway Circus, 1940s

Extra Help, 1897, 1905

F. C. Fisher and Son Circus, 1939-1945, 1947-1949

F. C. Fisher and Son Trained Animal Shows, 1939-1945, 1947-1949

Fabulous Hanneford Circus, 1969

Fairyland Circus, 1962-1965

Famous Circus Bartok, 1967-1972

Famous Cole Circus, 1954-1965, 1988-

Famous Cole Circus and Incomparable Display of Wild Beasts, 1964

Famous Cole Circus Combined Menagerie and 101 Wild West, 1959

Famous Cole Wild Animal Circus, 1954-1965, 1988-

Famous Hunt's Circus, 1977

Famous Robbins Wild Animal Circus, 1934-1938

Famous Welsh Bros. Shows Newest Great Railroad, 1907

Famous World's Progressive Sun Brothers Shows, 1892-1918

Famouso Circo Union, 1960

Fargo Bros. Circus, 1962

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Festival International Cirque Spectacular Monte Carlo, 1979

Firefighter's Circus - Cuyahoga Co., no date

Firefighter's Circus - Dekalb County, 1976

Firefighter's Circus - West Long Branch Dept, 1954

Firemen's Wild West Rodeo and Thrill Show, no date

Fisher Bros. Circus, 1923, 1934-1935, 1971-1974, 1978, 1989

Fisher Bros. Shows, 1943

Fisher's Dog and Pony Show and Colorado Mel's Wild West, no date

Florida State Fair, 1951

Ford Bros. 5 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1965, 1980-1989, 1993

Ford Bros. Circus, 1965, 1980-1989, 1993

Forepaugh Menagerie, Museum & Circus, 1878

Forepaugh's Aggregation, 1880

Franco-British Exhibition, 1908

Frank A. Robbins All Feature Shows, 1881-1891, 1898, 1905-1915

Frank A. Robbins All Feature Shows 30th annual tour, 1910

Frank A. Robbins All Feature Shows 32nd annual tour, 1912

Frank A. Robbins Circus, Museum, and Menagerie, 1914

Frank C. Bostock Pan-American Exposition, 1901

Frank P. Spellman's New York Hippodrome Winter Circus Success, 1916

Frank P. Spellman's Winter Circus, 1914

Frank Wirth Hunt Bros. Royal International Circus, 1914

Franzen Bros. Circus, 1974- 1998

Freckles Gang Comedy Circus, no date

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Fred J. Mack Circus, 1955

Gainesville Community Circus, 1945

Garden Bros. 3 Ring Circus, no date

Garden Bros. Circus, 1938-

Garden International Circus, 1969-1971

Gem City Shows, 1951

General H. Bonney, no date

Gentry Bros. - Jas. Patterson's Circus, 1923-1925

Gentry Bros. Circus, 1887-1922, 1926-1934, 1941

Gentry Bros. Famous Shows, 1934

Gentry Bros. Famous Shows United, 1902

Gentry Bros. Trained Wild Animal Shows, 1941

Geo. F. Bailey and Co's Circus and Menagerie, 1856-1857

George L. Dobyns Shows, 1925

George Matthew's Great London Circus, 1972-1977

Gibb's and McGregor's 25¢ Railroad Show, no date

Gil Gray International Circus, 2000

Gilbert Bros. Combined Circus, 1943

Globe Bros. Circus, 1944

Gold Medal Shows, 1920-1969

Golden Bros. Shows, 1923-1924, 1938

Goldmar Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1935

Gollmar Bros Circus and Trained Wild Animals, 1891-1916, 1922, 1923-1925

Gollmar Bros. Greatest of American Shows, 1910

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Gorman Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1935

Graham Bros., 1964

Great European Circus, 1865-1871, 1880, 1886

Greatest Show on Earth, 1961

Grotto Circus, 1952

Guthrie Bros. Circus, 1990

H. A. Bruce Shows, 1918-1919

H.B. Webb Shows, no date

Haag Bros. Circus, 1937-1940

Haag Shows, 1937

Hagan-Wallace 3 Ring Circus, 1952

Hagan-Wallace Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Menagerie, 1951-1961, 1966

Hagan-Wallace Free Circus, 1961

Hagan-Wallace Sells & Gray Circus, no date

Hagan-Wallace Sells & Gray Combined Circus, no date

Hagen Bros. Circus, 1949-1961

Hagen Bros. Circus Kid's Inc. Circus, 1949-1961

Hagenbeck-Wallace 4 Paw Sells Bros. Combined Circus, 1935

Hagenbeck-Wallace 4 Paw Sells Combined Circus, 1935

Hagenbeck-Wallace 4-Paw Sells, 1935

Hagenbeck-Wallace 4Paw Sells Bros. Combined Circus, ca 1930

Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, 1907-1935, 1937-1938

Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Winter Quarters, 1907-1935, 1937-1938

Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows Company, 1920

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Hall of Fame Circus, 1992

Hall, Long and Ringling's, 1889

Ham & Egg Circus, 1939

Hamid-Morton 3 Ring Circus, 1942

Hamid-Morton 3 Ring World's Largest Indoor Circus Lulu Temple, 1944

Hamid-Morton All Star Edition Crescent Shrine Circus, 1965

Hamid-Morton Big 3 Ring Circus Crescent Shrine, no date

Hamid-Morton Big 3 Ring Circus- Crescent Shrine, no date

Hamid-Morton Circus, 1942-

Hamid-Morton Police Circus, 1968

Hamid's Oriental Circus Wild West and Far East Shows Combined, 1917

Hammerstein's Victoria Theater of Varieties, 1908

Hanneford Circus, 1970-1985

Hanneford Circus, 1982

Hanneford Circus Jamil Shrine, no date

Hanneford Family Circus, 1978-

Harley Sadler-Bailey Bros. Circus Combined, 1935-1936

Harmount's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1895

Harold Bros. Circus, 1980

Harrington's Nickle Plate Show 3 Ring Circus Beautiful, 1930

Harris Bros. Shows, 1924-1938

Harry Bowman's Big Vaudeville Circus, 1901

Harry Bowman's Big Vaudeville Show, 1901

Harry Haag's Big 3 Ring Circus, 1936

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Hemmings and Cooper's Great Consolidated Menagerie and Circus, 1871-1872

Henry's Tent Show, no date

Heritage Bros. Big 3 Ring Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1926

Heywood Bros. Combination The Great Double Entertainment, 1862-1876

Holiday Big Top Revue, 1962

Holiday Hippodrome, 1987

Holiday Hippodrome Original Stage Circus, no date

Honest Bill Circus, 1903-1918, 1921, 1923-1929, 1935, 1939

Honest Bill Shows Featuring Trained Wild and Domestic Animals, 1903-1918, 1921, 1923-

1929, 1935, 1939

Honest Bill's America's Best Show, 1903-1918, 1921, 1923-1924, 1927, 1929, 1933, 1939

Howe Bros. 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1937

Howe's and Cushing's United States Circus and Trained Lions, 1894-1895, 1899

Howe's Great London Circus, 1872

Howe's Great London Circus and Van Amburg's Trained Wild Animals, 1921

Howe's Great London Shows, 1902-1903, 1908-1916, 1920

Hoxie, no date

Hoxie & Bardex Bros. Combined Circus, 1962

Hoxie and Bardex Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1962

Hoxie and Bardex Bros. Circus, 1962

Hoxie Bros., 1976

Hoxie Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Bros. America's Greatest Trained Animal 3 Ring Circus, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Bros. and Great American Circus, 1976-1984

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Hoxie Bros. and Great American Circus Combined, 1976-1984

Hoxie Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1976

Hoxie Bros. Big Top Circus, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Bros. Circus, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Bros. Circus Fun for the Whole Family, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Bros. Old Tyme Circus, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1971

Hoxie Circus, 1943, 1947-1949, 1961-1984

Hoxie Great American Circus, 1976-1984

Hoxie's Great American, 1976

Hoxie's Great American Circus, 1976-1984

Hub Bros. Mammoth 5 Ring Circus, no date

Hugo Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1915, 1917-1918, 1944-1946

Hugo Bros. Circus, 1945

Hunt Bros. Circus, 1863-1969, 1975-1977

Hunt Bros. Circus and Animal Farm, 1969

Hunt Bros. Circus Farm, no date

Hunt Bros. European Style Royal International Television Circus, 1863-1969, 1975-1977

Hunt Bros. Present the Royal International Circus, 1961-1962

Hunt Bros. Royal International Television Circus, 1863-1969, 1975-1977

Hunt Brothers Circus Farm, 1863-1969, 1975-1977

Hunter Bros. Shows, no date

Hunt's 3 Ring Circus, 1927

Hunt's Circus The Brightest New Stars of the Circus World, 1977

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Hunt's New Modern Show, 1916

Hunt's Spirit of the Circus, 1976

Imperial-Royal Austrian Exhibition, 1906

International All-Star Circus, 1976

International Cavalcade of Stars, no date

International Hippodrome Circus, 1964

Irwin Bros. Cheyenne Frontier Days Wild West Show, 1887-1889, 1893, 1913-1915, 1919

Island Garden Circus, 1967

Italian Exhibition, 1904

J. B. Doris' Great Inter Ocean Show, Menagerie, Museum, and Circus, 1883-1887

J. H. Eschman World United Shows, 1910-1917

J. W. Norman Circus, 1925

James Bros. Circus World's Largest Big Top, 1965-1970

James Bros. Circus, 1965-1970

James H. Drew Exposition, 1970

James H. Drew The World's Most Beautiful Midway, no date

James Hetzer Intercontinental Circus, 1977-1984

James M. Cole Circus, 1936, 1942-1948, 1956

James-Christy, 1959-1960

James-Christy Wild Animal Circus, 1959-1960

Jan M. Dorfay Combined with Animaland USA Circus, no date

Jas. W. Goodrich Wagon Shows and Trained Animal Exposition, 1895-1903

Joe B. Webb Circus, 1936

Joe B. Webb's Wild Animal Circus, 1936

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Joe E. Webb's Wild Animal Circus, no date

Joe Eddie Show Presents Santa's Magical Workshop, 1970s

John B. Doris' Great Inter-Ocean Show, 1883-1887

John H. Murray's Great Railroad Circus, 1872-1881

John H. Sparks Old Reliable Virginia Shows, 1900

John H. Sparks World Famous Shows, 1919

John O'Brien's Six Shows Consolidated Circus, Museum, and Menagerie, 1877

John Pawling Great London 3 Ring Circus, 1949

John Pawling's Great London 3 Ring Circus and Wild Animal Thrill Show, 1949

John Robbins Circus (miniature), 1943

John Robinson's 10 Big Shows, 1923

John Robinson's 10 Big Shows Combined, 1856-1858, 1863, 1864, 1866-1911, 1916-1930

John Robinson's Circus, 1856-1858, 1863, 1864, 1866-1911, 1916-1930

John Robinson's Circus and Trained Wild Animals, 1923

John Robinson's Everlasting Circus Greatest Wild Animal Circus on Earth, 1924

John Robinson's Grand Museum, Aquarium, Circus and Menagerie Combination, 1872

John Willander's Circus, 1933

Johnny J. Jones Exposition, 1939

Jones Bros. and Wilson's Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1914

Jones Bros. Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus World Toured Shows, 1900-1904, 1910, 1915, 1935

Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West, 1910

Jones Bros. Wild West Circus, 1935

Jones Bros. World Toured Shows, 1915

Jones Bros. Shows, 1900-1904, 1910-1915, 1935

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Jon's Variety Show, no date

Joppa Temple Shrine Circus, 1985

Jumbo and His Pals, 1963

Jungle Caravan, no date

Jungle Wonders, no date

Kay Bros. Circus, 1937

Kelly & Miller Circus, 1968

Kelly-Miller, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Kelly-Miller 3 Ring Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Kelly-Miller Bros. Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Kelly-Miller Circus, 1937-1968, 1984-1986

Kelly-Morris Circus, 1949

Ken Maynard's Diamond Ranch Wild West Circus and Indian Congress, 1936

Kid's Day, 1968

Kid's Inc. Circus, no date

King and Franklin Circus, no date

King Bros Circus, no date

King Bros. - Cole Circus, 1955

King Bros. - Cole Combined Circus, 1955

King Bros. & Cristiani Circus, 1951-1953

King Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1937, 1942, 1946-1956, 1959-1978, 1980

King Bros. Circus, 1937, 1942, 1946-1956, 1959-1978, 1980

King Bros. Circus Big Show, 1937, 1942, 1946-1956, 1959-1978, 1980

King Bros. Circus Grander Than Ever, 1959

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King Bros. Circus World's Newest Big Show, 1937, 1942, 1946-1956, 1959-1978, 1980

King Bros. Combined Shows, 1937, 1942, 1946-1956, 1959-1978, 1980

Kirk Circus, 1973

Kirkner & Mead's Great Dog and Pony Show, no date

Kit Carson's Buffalo Ranch Wild West, 1911-1914

Kiwanis Circus, 1947

Krause Greater Shows, 1911-1935

Kreko's Kavalcade Greatest Road Show Season, 1940

Kristy Bros. Circus, no date

Kuhn Circus, 1936-1937

L. B. Lent's New York Circus Combined with J. M. French's Menagerie Trained Lions, Tigers,

Hyenas, Elephants and Zoological Gardens, 1876

L. E. Barnes Wild Animal Circus, 2001

La Tena's Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1914-1917

Lake's Hippo-Olympiad, 1863-1871

Lee Bros., 1899, 1901-1902, 1925-1926, 1933-1934, 1942-1949, 1951, 1957

Lee Bros. All American Circus, 1899, 1901-1902, 1925-1926, 1933-1934, 1942-1949, 1951,

1957

Lee Bros. Big 4 Ring Trained Wild Animal Shows, 1925

Lee Bros. Circus, 1899, 1901-1902, 1925-1926, 1933-1934, 1942-1949, 1951, 1957

Lee Bros. Main Show, 1899, 1901-1902, 1925-1926, 1933-1934, 1942-1949, 1951, 1957

Lee Bros. Shows, 1899, 1901-1902, 1925-1926, 1933-1934, 1942-1949, 1951, 1957

Lee Bros. Wild Animal Shows, 1899, 1901-1902, 1925-1926, 1933-1934, 1942-1949, 1951,

1957

Leon W. Washburn's All-American One Big Ring Circus Museum, Menagerie, Hippodrome, and

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Wild West, 1881-1883, 1892-1904, 1907-1908

Leon W. Washburn's Mighty Midway Shows, 1914-1917

Leonard Bros. Circus, 1956

Lewis Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1973

Lewis Bros. Big Top Circus, 1970

Lewis Bros. Circus, 1931-1942, 1945, 1973-1976

Lewis Bros. Combined with Whitey Ford All Star Radio Show and Circus, 1942

Lewis Bros. Old Fashioned Big Top Circus, 1974

Lewis Bros. Old Tyme Circus, 1931-1942, 1945, 1973-1976

Liebel Family Circus, 1983 -

Lions of Longleat, no date

Logan County Fair, no date

Lowery Bros. New Olympia Shows, 1899-1931

Lu Lu Shrine Temple, 1948

M. L. Clark and Lee Bros. Circus Combined, no date

M. L. Clark and Son's Circus, 1883-1930, 1943, 1945-1946

M. L. Clark and Son's Combined Shows, 1883-1930, 1943, 1945-1946

M. L. Clark and Son's Shows, 1905

Mam Canestrelli Spaghetti Dinner Showfolks of Sarasota, 1965

Mammoth Marine Hippodrome, 1938

Marks Shows, 1947

Martin Bros. Circus, 1936

Martin Bros. Trained Animal Circus, 1936

Martin's Original Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., 1914

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Masten-Zirkus Max Holzmüller, 1952

Max Gruberg's Famous Shows, 1928-1933

McDowell County Fair, 1937

McDowell County Fair and Expo, 1933

Merry Christmas Land, 1947

Michael Brother's Exposition Shows, no date

Mid America Circus, 1976

Mighty Haag Railroad Shows, 1906

Mighty Haag Shows, 1891-1938

Military Exhibition, 1901

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch, 1928

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Real Wild West, 1907-1916, 1925-1931, 1933-1934, 1945-1946

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Real Wild West and Circus, 1929

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Real Wild West and Great Far East, 1923

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Real Wild West and Great Far East Shows, 1923-1929

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show, 1907-1916, 1925-1931, 1933-1934, 1945-1946

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Wild West and International Congress of Circus Stars, 1946

Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Wild West Show, 1907-1916, 1925-1931, 1933-1934, 1945-1946

Miller Bros. Combined Circus and Vaudeville Shows, 1936

Milliken Bros. Circus and Ken's Wild West Combined Shows, 1934-1936

Mills Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1940-1967

Mills Bros. 3 Ring Circus and Horse Show Combined, 1940-1967

Mills Bros. Incorporated, 1963

Mills Bros. World Toured Circus, 1944

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Milt B. Buckley's Big Shows, 1902

Milt Tolbert's Big Tent Theatre, 1920

Miracle Midway Circus, 1933

Model Shows of America, no date

Monroe Bros. Circus, 1915, 1923, 1925, 1944-1948

Moose Bros. Miniature Circus, no date

Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and Steamship Co. Louisiana Western Railroad Company,

1902

Mount Hope Bridge Authority, no date

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1863

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle au Jardin du Roi, no date

Museum of the American Circus, no date

Nashville TN State Fair, 1938

National Circus Museum, no date

Naval Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition, 1905

New Jersey State Fair, 1947

New Jersey Transit's Mini Circus Express, 1984

New Year’s Eve Ball Showfolks of Sarasota, 1965

New York Central Railroad, no date

New York Circus and Menagerie of Trained Wild Animals, 1876

Nouveau Cirque Fauteuil, 1909

Nur Temple 10th Annual Shrine Circus, 1971

O.C. Buck Exposition Inc., 1933-1969

O'Brien's 6 Shows, 1877

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Old Dan Rice Circus, 1917

Old Fashioned Big Top Great American Circus, 1875, 1886-1889, 1896, 1929, 1939, 1978-1981,

1985-1994

Old Reliable John Robinson Circus, 1927

Old Reliable Robbins Circus, 1922, 1931, 1937

Ollie Hamilton presents Bill Leicht's Streets of Paris Revue, 1920s

Olympic Circus, no date

Original Gentry Bros. Famous Shows, 1904-1906, 1909, 1912-1918

Pain's Last Day of Pompeii, no date

Pain's Last Day of Pompeii performance, 1883

Paker & Watts Circus, 1938-1939

Palmer Bros. Big 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1921

Pan-American Children's Magic Show, no date

Pan-American Exposition, 1901

Paramount American Circus, no date

Paris in London, 1902

Park Theatre, 1934

Parker and Watts Circus, 1936

Parks & Banks, 1915-1916

Parks & Banks Greater Railroad Shows, 1915-1916

Parsloe and Vincent's A Grass Widow Co, 1887

Pawnee Bill's Wild West, 1906

Pawnee Bros. Circus, 1951

Pennsylvania Railroad, 1890

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Peru's 2nd Annual Festival Circus, 1961

Peru's 3rd Annual Festival Circus, 1962

Peru's 4th Annual Festival Circus, 1963

Piccadilly Circus, no date

Polack Bros. Boumi Temple Circus, 1949

Polack Bros. Circus, 1932-1976

Polack Bros. Circus Ben Hur Shrine, 1932-1976

Polack Bros. Shrine Circus, 1957

Polack Bros. Shrine Circus and Wild Animal Show Boumi Temple, 1959

Polack Bros. Shrine Circus Kosair Shrine, 1942

Polack Bros. Shrine Circus Rajah Temple, no date

Pollie Shows, 1918

Prairie Lillie and Nebraska Bill's Real Wild West Shows, 1912

Pullman and Mack Combined Shows, 1884-1885

Pullman and Mack Shows, 1884-1885

R. Sands American Circus, 1840, 1844-1845, 1850-1852, 1860-1862

R.G. Wandrey's Old Fashioned Country Circus, no date

Ray Bros. Circus, 1944

Ray Bros. World's Greatest Indoor Circus and Trained Wild Animal Exposition, 1945

Reid Bros. Circus, 1990

Renfro Valley Radio Show, no date

Rentz Bros. R. R. Shows, 1910-1914

Rentz Bros. Shows, 1910-1914

Reo Bros. Circus, 1986

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Rex Bros. Circus, no date

Rhoda Royal Shows, 1900-1901, 1907-1910, 1919-1922

Rhoda Royal Trained Wild Animal and Old Buffalo Wild West, 1920

Rhoda Royal World Toured Shows, 1921

Rice Bros. Buck Sells Wild West, 1906-1907, 1909-1916, 1920-1924, 1934-1936

Rice Bros. Shows, 1922

Richard Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1938-1939

Richard Bros. Circus, 1938-1939

Rineharts Wild Animal Circus, 1931

Ring Bros. Circus, 1954

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, 1984 -

Ringling Bros., 1884-1918

Ringling Bros. - Spangles, 1943

Ringling Bros. 14th Year of America's Greatest Show, 1897

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, 1919

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Combined Greatest Show on Earth, 1930

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Hollywood Bowl, 1958

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Home of the Circus, 1957

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus The Greatest Show On Earth, 1980

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Winter Quarters, 1942-1943

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus World, 1980

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus, 1942

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Greatest Show on Earth, 1926

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, 1923

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows The Greatest Show on Earth, 1937

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., 1955

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. Greatest Show on Earth, 1968

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. The Greatest Show on Earth, 1956

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. The Greatest Show on Earth, 1955

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., 1919-

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. Greatest Show on Earth, 1965

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. The Greatest Show on Earth, 1953

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1977

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Winter Quarters, 1927-1950s

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., 1919-

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Elephant Ride, no date

Ringling Bros. Circus, 1900

Ringling Bros. Shows, 1884-1918

Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows, 1884-1918

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, 1984 -

Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey, 1991

Robbins Bros. 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1949

Robbins Bros. Big 4 Ring Circus, 1927

Robbins Bros. Circus, 1924-1931, 1938, 1940, 1949, 1965

Robbins Bros. Great American Circus, 1938

Robbins Circus, 1922, 1931, 1937

Robert G. Earl Circus, 1964

Roberts Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1974-

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Roberts Bros. Circus, 1974-

Robinson Circus, 1866-1877

Robinson's Famous Shows, 1911

Rogers Bros. Circus, 1947-1953

Rogers Greater Shows, 1940

Roller Bros. Circus, 1983

Ron Morris Circus, 1978

Roncalli, no date

Rotterdam Zoo (Diergaarde Blij-dorp), no date

Royal American Shows Present Terrell Jacobs Wild Animal Circus, 1949

Royal American Shows, Inc., no date

Royal Aquarium, 1877

Royal Aquarium Theatre, 1877

Royal Bros., 1956, 1973-1976

Royal Bros. Circus, 1956, 1973-1976

Royal Coburg Theatre, 1832

Royal Hanneford Circus, 1970-1985

Royal Lyceum Theatre, 1873

Royal National Menagerie, 1826

Royal Palace Circus, 1987-

Royal Palm Shows, no date

Royal Ranch Wild West Circus, 1970-1976

Royal Ranch Wild West Shows, 1970

Royal Surrey Gardens, 1873

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Royal Wild West Circus, 1976

Royal Wild West Circus, no date

Royale Bros. Trained Animal Circus, 1952

Royer Bros. and Bailey Combined Shows, 1906-1924

Rudy Bros. Circus, 1950-1976, 1988-1993

Rudy Bros. Circus New England's Favorite Show, 1950-1976, 1988-1993

Russell Bros. Circus, 1912, 1919, 1924, 1928-1943, 1945

Russell Bros. Great Pan-Pacific Circus, 1945

Russell Bros. Greater American Circus, 1941

Russell Bros. Pan-Pacific Circus, 1945

S.F. Cody, no date

Sahib Shrine Circus, 1992

Sailor Circus, 1984

Sailor Circus and Windjammers presents Merle Evans 91st Birthday Celebration, 1984

Sailor Circus and Windjammers Unlimited, 1999

Saladin Temple Shrine Circus, 1934

Sam B. Dill's Big 3 Ring Circus, 1932-1934

Sam B. Dill's Circus, 1932-1934

Sam B. Dill's Circus Tom Mix and Tony, 1934

Sanger's Grand National Amphitheatre, no date

Santa's Circus Gran Cirque de Noel, no date

Sarasota High School presents Sailor Circus, 1958

Sarrasani, no date

Schell Bros. Shows, 1952

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Schell Bros. Wild Animal Circus, 1929-1936

Schell Bros. Wild Animal Shows, 1929-1936

Scott Bros. Indoor Circus, no date

Scribner & Smith's Circus, Musuem, and Menagerie, 1892-1896

Seal Bros. Circus, 1932-1937, 1948-1950

Seal Bros. Three Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1932-1937, 1948-1950

Seils-Sterling Big Four Ring Circus, 1967

Seils-Sterling Four Ring Circus, 1932-1938, 1944, 1947, 1975

Sello Bros. Circus, 1943-1947

Sells and Gray 3 Ring Circus, 1900-1901, 1960-1978

Sells and Gray 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1966

Sells and Gray Circus, 1900-1901, 1960-1978

Sells and Gray Combined Circus, 1900-1901, 1960-1978

Sells Bros., 1878

Sells Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1871-1895, 1962-1963

Sells Bros. Circus, 1871-1895, 1962-1963

Sells Bros. Circus and Thrill Show, 1945

Sells Bros. Enormous Railroad Shows, 1893

Sells Bros. Wild Animal Show and Gentry Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1964

Sells Brothers Millionaire Confederation of Stupendous Railroad Shows, 1881

Sells-Floto Circus, 1906-1932

Sells-Floto Circus, 1928

Sells-Floto Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West, 1914-1916, 1926

Sells-Floto Circus Buffalo Bill, 1914-1916, 1926

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Sells-Floto Circus-Menagerie-Hippodrome-Wild West, 1908

Sells-Floto Shows, 1906

Sells-Floto Super Circus, 1921

Shell Bros. Combined Indian Congress and Vaudeville Shows, 1935

Shipp & Feltus Circus, 1916-1923

Showfolks of Sarasota Circus, 1979

Showmen's Circus, 1992

Showtime Follies, 1977 or 1988

Shrine Circus, 1986

Shrine Circus at the State Fair Coliseum, 1952

Siebrand Bros. 3 Ring Circus, no date

Siebrand Bros. Circus and Carnival, no date

Sig. Sautelle Shows, Circus, Museum and Menagerie, 1882-1886, 1889-1904, 1911-1914, 1919,

1926

Sig. Sautelle's Nine Big Railroad Shows, 1914

Silas Green From New Orleans, 1951

Silvan-Drew Circus, 1926-1929

Silvan-Drew Motorized Circus, 1926-1929

Society Circus, no date

South Texas State Fair, 1928

Spar Bros. Circus, 1939

Sparks Circus, 1929

Sparks Railroad Circus, 1946-1947

Sparks World Famous Shows, 1917

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St. Louis & Hannibal Railroad, Oklahoma New Mexico & Pacific Railway, Dayton, Toledo &

Chicago Railway, Ringling Easland & Gulg Railway, White Sulphur Springs & Yellowstone

Park Railway, 1920

St. Louis & Hannibal Railroad, Oklahoma New Mexico & Pacific Railway, White Sulphur

Springs & Yellowstone Park Railway, 1925

St. Louis & Hannibal Railroad, White Sulphur Springs & Yellowstone Park Railway, 1932

Stanley Graham's Midgets Circus, no date

Stebbing Royal European Circus, 1976

Sterling and Wallace Circus, 1959-1964

Stevens Bros. 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1932-1933, 1946-1952

Stevens Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1932-1933, 1946-1952

Stevens Bros. Circus, 1932-1933, 1946-1952

Stevens Bros. Combined Shows, 1932-1933, 1946-1952

Stone, Den The Clown's Farewell Benefit, 1854

Strates Shows, 1958-1959

Sun Bros. World's Progressive Shows, 1914

Super Circus, 1992-1997, 2000

Swallow's Great Hippodrome Circus, no date

Terrell Jacobs Circus, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1952-1955

Terrell Jacobs Wild Animal Circus and Art Mix's Wild West, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1952, 1955

Terrell M. Jacobs Big Wild Animal Circus, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1952, 1955

Tex Maynard Jr. Wild West Show, 1976

Theatre Royal Covent Garden, no date

Tiger Bill Real Wild West, 1909-1936, 1941-1952

Tiger Bill's Combined Shows, 1909-1936, 1941-1952

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Tim McCoy's Real Wild West and Rough Riders of the World, 1938

Tim McCoy's Wild West, 1938

Timex All Star Circus starring Tony Curtis, 1970

Tivoli Exposition Shows, no date

Toby Tyler Circus Under the Gigantic Big Top, 1986

Tom Mix - Sam B. Dill Combined Wild West and Circus, 1934

Tom Mix & Tony Heading Sam B. Dill's Big 3 Ring Circus, 1934

Tom Mix and Sam B. Dill Combined Wild West and Circus, 1934

Tom Mix Circus, 1936

Tom Mix Circus and Wild West, 1935

Tom Mix's Circus, 1935-1938

Tommy Scott's Country Caravan Stage Show Wild West, 1938

Tompkin's Real Wild West, 1917

Tompkin’s Real Wild West Combined with Cooper and Whitby's Circus, 1916

Totman's Tent Show, 1929

Tower Circus, 1957

Tranvias Electricos de Mexico, 1906

Turner Bros. Dog and Pony Show, 1958-1959

U. S. Government War Tax, 1940s

Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1900

United Nations 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1963

United Nations Circus, 1963

Unknown (Russian), no date

Utah Continental Exposition, 1947

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Van Amburg & Co's Golden Menagerie, Roman Circus, Colosseum, 1878

Van Anburgh's Museum, no date

Van Anburgh's Palace of Wonders, no date

Van Amburgh, Chas. Reiche & Bro's New Railroad Shows, 1885

Van Tilburg and McReavy Combined Circus America's Greatest Streamlined Indoor Circus,

1942-1943

Victorian Era Exhibition, 1897

Vidbel's Olde Tyme Circus Under the Big Top, 1987-

Viohl Bros. Circus, 1947

Visit to the Chinese Lady, no date

Von Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1954-1967

Von Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1954-1967

Von Bros. Circus, 1954-1967

W. B. Patton, 1917

W. C. Kaus Shows, 1948-1949

W. H. Curtis World's Superior Shows, no date

W. H. Harris' New Nickel Plate Shows, 1895

Wallace and Clark Circus, 1951-1953, 1960-1963

Wallace and Clark Wild Animal Circus Extraordinary, 1951-1953, 1960-1963

Wallace and Rogers Circus, 1973

Wallace Bros Circus, 1909, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1962

Wallace Bros. 3 Ring Circus, 1909, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1962

Wallace Bros. 3 Ring Trained Wild Animal Circus, 1909, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1953, 1961,

1962

Wallace Bros. Big 3 Ring Circus, 1909, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1962

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Wallace Bros. Circus, 1909, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1953, 1961, 1962

Wallace Bros. Shows, 1909, 1937, 1940-1944, 1952-1953, 1961-1962

Wallace Shows, 1895-1906

Wallenda Circus, 1993

Wallenda Circus, 1947

Wallis and Harney Trained Animal Circus, 1970

Walter L. Main 3 Ring Circus Museum Menagerie and Roman Hippodrome and Andrew

Downie's Trained Wild Animal Shows Combined, 1922

Walter L. Main Big 3 Ring Circus Museum Menagerie and Roman Hippodrome, 1948

Walter L. Main Big Fashion Plate Railroad Shows, 1902 and 1914

Walter L. Main Circus, 1920-1922

Walter L. Main Circus and Buffalo Ranch Wild West, 1910

Walter L. Main Circus and Trained Wild Animals, 1920

Walter L. Main Circus Combined with Bill Cody's Ranch Wild West, 1886-1899, 1901-1904,

1918-1928, 1930-1933, 1935-1937, 1939, 1944-1948

Walter L. Main Shows, 1918 and 1920

Walter L. Main World's Exposition 3 Ring Circus, 1931

Walter L. Main's, 1886-1889

Walter L. Main's All New Monster Railroad Shows, 1893

Walter L. Main's Monster Railroad Shows, 1898

Walter L. Main's Shows America's Best, 1886-1899, 1901-1904, 1918-1928, 1930-1933, 1935-

1937, 1939, 1944-1948

Walter W. Gentry Circus, 1938-1939

Ward Bros. Shrine Circus, 1948-1950

Ward-Bell Circus Extraordinary, 1955

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Warren County Fair and Horse Show, 1940

Welsh Bros. Newest Great Railroad Shows, 1903

Welsh Bros. Newest Great Shows, 1898

Welsh Bros. Shows, no date

Wentworth Bros. 3 Ring Trained Wild Animal Circus, no date

Wheeler and Almond Circus, 1933

Wheeler and Sautelle's Circus, 1931-1932

Wheeler Bros. Enormous Shows, 1916

Wheeler Bros. Greater Shows, 1912-1914

Wheeler Bros. Shows, 1914, 1916-1923

White Sulphur Springs & Yellowstone Park Railway, 1914

William P. Hall Shows, 1905

Wilson County Fair, 1931

Windjammers Unlimited and Sailor Circus, no date

Windjammers Unlimited and Sailor Circus, 1989

Wonder Shows, no date

Wonderful World of Circus, 1978

World Bros. Circus, 1923, 1930, 1933-1934, 1938

World Bros. Great Eastern Circus Combined with Buzz Barton's Ranch Wild West, 1923, 1930,

1933-1934, 1938

World Bros. Wild Animal Circus, 1923, 1930, 1933-1934, 1938

World Wide Indoor Circus, 1930s

World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

World's Industrial Exhibition, 1854

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World-Wide Wild Animal Zoo, no date

Wyoming Bill's Historical Wild West, 1913-1914

Yankee Robinson 3 Ring Wild Animal Circus, 1916-1917

Yankee Robinson Shows, 1856, 1860, 1864-1871, 1875, 1906-1907, 1909-1920

Yankee Robinson's Shows Consolidates, 1867

Yankee-Patterson Circus, 1930, 1937-1947

Young Buffalo's Wild West, 1910-1914

Young Buffalo's Wild West and Texas Rangers, 1910-1914

Zallee Bros. Circus, 1946-1949

Zoological Gardens of London, c. 1833

Zoological Society Gardens, 1872

Zoological Society Gardens and Museum, no date

Zoological Society Museum, no date

Zoological Society of London, no date

Zoological Society of London Gardens at Regents Park, 1890

Zoological Society's Gardens at Regent's Park, 1878

Zurah Shrine Circus, 1964

Contents of the Collection

Box no. Box title

1 Circus Tickets Unknown - Cou

2 Circus Tickets Cri-Joe

3 Circus Tickets Joh – Rin

4 Circus Tickets Rin – Zal

5 Tickets and Coupons, Wild West, Employee Related,

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Exchange Tickets, Requisition Tickets, Shrine, Circus

Related, & Non-Circus.

6 Passes

7 Bill Posting & Lithograph Order Tickets

8 Tickets, Al Ringling Theater

9 Oversized Material

10 Fairs, Carnivals, Attractions and Minstrel Tickets

11 Foreign tickets