#barnum & bailey circus

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Circus performers (1940s, 1950s)

[clowneryblog]

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Barnum & Bailey postcard by totallymystified Via Flickr: Illustration by E Schlemo.

[dandyads]

Barnum and Bailey, 1915

[tilbageidanmark]

Ringling Brothers Clown Collage, 1997.

[victoriaswillow]

1. Anno 1800_2 by Greg Rutkowski

2. Scenes from the Circus by Arturo Michelena

3. The Circus by George Bellows

4. Circus Performers by Victor C. Anderson

[gameraboy2]

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus - Prairie Bill And His Congress Of Rough Riders Of The World, 1933 poster

[postcard-from-the-past]

Advertisement of the Barnum & Bailey Circus

German vintage postcard

[queen-daya]

Phillip Carlyle and Helen Barnum

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The long line of elephants swinging west on 57th Street from Second Avenue on March 27, 1955, could mean only one thing: the circus was in town. Despite freezing temperatures and winds with gusts over 50 miles an hour, hundreds of children lined the parade route from railroad yards at 135th Street and Lincoln Avenue in the South Bronx, down Second Avenue, across 57th Street and south to Madison Square Garden via Ninth Avenue. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus opened with a benefit performance at the Garden on March 30.

Photo: Associated Press via Der Spiegel

[stone-cold-groove]

Let’s look at letterheads - Barnum & Bailey stationery.

[frank-o-meter]

Circus Poster: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus / The Greatest Show on Earth (1943). Poster depicting Felix Adler the clown

[clowneryblog]

i always think about the fact that when the Barnum and Bailey circus removed the animals, they removed the clowns too. because i know its just because their main audience doesn't want to see clowns anymore — but its funny to imagine. do they know clowns aren't animals?

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Barnum & Bailey postcard by totallymystified Via Flickr: Illustration by E Schlemo.

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[i-write-shakespeare-not-disney]

God made me susceptible to motion sickness because otherwise I'd be running away with the circus.