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A discussion of P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York City, from the documentary...
Video: Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Images
Clowns performing during what was billed as the final tour of the Ringling Bros....
© Erik S. Lesser—EPA/REX/Shutterstock.com
Astley's Amphitheatre, coloured aquatint engraving after a drawing by A.C....
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 (accession no. 17.3.1167-148); www.metmuseum.org
A poster for the Barnum & Bailey circus, 1896.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
P.T. Barnum's mammoth tent housing his menagerie and exhibits.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
A 16-camel team in a Ringling Brothers circus parade, 1911.
Courtesy of Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Patricia Bourne training lions to stand on their hind legs in the annual Bertram...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, lithograph,...
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming/Gift of John S. Bugas and Glenn E. Nielson, Accession No. 1.69.1813
Elephants in a three-ring performance at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus,...
Courtesy of Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
D. Kossmeyer, in Bertram Mills Circus, London, performing an equestrian act reminiscent...
Keystone/FPG
Two members of the Voljansky troupe on the high wire, part of the Moscow State Circus...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Tightrope, a Polish circus (Cyrk) poster by Jan Sawka, 1974/79.
Jan Sawka/Contemporary Posters, N.Y.
Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach), a famous Swiss clown, in his dressing room at the...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Clyde Beatty training lions, c. 1932.
Courtesy of Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Charley Baumann's Bengal Tigers performing at the Bertram Mills Circus, 1959.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The Bubnovs, aerial gymnasts from the Moscow Circus.
Novosti Press Agency
Circus entertainer performing a fire-eating act.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Circus ringmaster Billy Rayner training fleas, 1954.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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