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Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus elephants
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Circus poster depicting elephants stacking into a pyramid at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. The elephants in the background form a conga line.
Billy and Tommy Baker Pony Trail with Michu, Ronk, Balkanski
Description:
Features Billy and Tommy Baker Pony Trail, camel-pony display, Michu, little person, Harold Ronk production number, aerial, Balkanski head balancing act, RBBB Blue Unit
Photograph of circus workers unloading a lion in its cage from the back of a truck at the Cole Brothers- Clyde Beatty Circus. Bystanders watch close by as the lion is unloaded.
Photograph of Yvonne Shea in costume and the dogs she uses in her act, who are also in costume, at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus show. Yvonne Shea performed only for the 1958 to 1959 season.
New Hospital Cars 1948, Show Moving on Lot, Spec, Backyard, Show in Big Top, Cristiani Teeterboard, Riding Act, Mable Stark, Jack Joyce, Akron, Ohio
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Features new hospital cars 1948, show moving on lot, spec, backyard, show in big top, Cirstiani Teeterboard, Riding act, very short scene of Mable Stark, Jack Joyce, 1947 spec, Akron, Ohio, 1949 spec.
Features circus acts, teeterboard act, Russian riding act, clown walk-around, King Charles Troupe, the basketball players on unicycles, elephants, RBBB Blue Unit.
Metchkaroff Pole Vaulting Act, Rubin Hand Casting, Saxon Riding, Elephant Production Number
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Features Metchkaroff Pole Vaulting Act, two-person husband and wife teeterboard act, elephant production number, RBBB Blue Unit, Saxon Riding Act, hand casting act, elephant act.
Gunther Gebel-Williams, Sarah Chapman, and Various Acts
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Features Gunther Gebel-Williams, Sarah Chapman, balancing trapeze, Liberty Horse Display, dog act, unsupported ladder act, clowns, Sue and Rudi Lenz chimpanzees, teeterboard, Russian Swing, juggling, Pino Nocks working high wire, ...
Features Gunther Gebel-Williams first year. Barbara Bailey sitting on the side of the bandstand with Merle Evans. Gunther Gebel-Williams Tiger Act. Sway Pole Act, Comedy Spec II.
Features cage wild animals act working outside the arena, Rex Williams working elephants, and acts featured from the Clyde Bros. Circus, lion act, beach.
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