The floor under the Big Top was a swirl of activity — spinning hoops, turning unicycles, twisting ropes, bodies hurtling through the air — sometimes carefully coordinated, other times featuring so ...

From 1975: The latest grand plan for the old Expo ’74 site? ” The Riverfront Park Pavilion Circus.” This wasn’t a circus in the Ringling Bros. sense – it was a circular collection of attractions ...

“The circus is coming to town” announced The Aspen Times on June 30, 1977. “The Clyde Brothers Circus will be at the Snowmass Rodeo Grounds for one day, Thursday, July 7 and there will be three shows: ...

Colonial Americans really didn’t have much to do in the way of entertainment. That’s until John Bill Ricketts — a student of ...

Florida author Les Standiford (“Last Train to Paradise,” “Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu”) continues his run of popular historical narratives with an in-depth look at the ...

When circuses starting making their way to Dayton in the 1800s, they quickly became a major spectacle. We went back into the archives to see what the circuses were like throughout history and the ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is drawing to a close this weekend after 146 years of performances and travel that at times have been marred by tragedy and celebrated in film, but also ...

PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...

VENICE — Retired circus performers, owners of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and local officials turned out recently to celebrate the new Circus Train Car Museum with a ribbon-cutting ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Circus Collection includes the ...