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Girl in a bathing suit stands against a white background holding several trophies. Three medals are pinned to her chest. An inscription on the front of the photograph reads, “To Anna from Josephine “the Bimini Kid” 1920
Two train cars are parked on a track. An African American woman stands on the railcar vestibule, leaning forward looking straight out. A white woman stands on the ground near the railcar, looking off to the side. There is an awning over...
A neatly dressed dark haired girl clutches the handle of a 16mm Cine-Kodak movie crank camera standing on the pathway to a two-story, white house framed by trimmed hedges.
In an open-air setting, a woman wearing a pageant costume invoking Egyptian or Eastern dress, stands directed at the camera. She is holding a pole with a tasseled banner. Behind her is an architectural set and grazing camels. Colorized...
On a beach in front of a collapsed bungalow with a thatched palm frond roof, a man wearing a white shirt and a captain's hat stands looking at the camera. He holds his left arm up to shield the sun from his eyes.
An unidentified man seated on a cloth, facing away from the camera toward the side of a house with a window. The house is elevated slightly with supports visible.
A uniformed Robert Reynolds and a coworker are in conversation in front of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey performer's entrance. Two costumed performers walk past them. Inscribed verso “RBBB ca. 1930’s performers entrance (note:...
On a beach straddling a waterway buoy, eight unidentified individuals pose for a photograph. A boardwalk structure and trees are in the background. Inscribed verso “Certificate no. 1165. Bull Bayou Homer Oil Co. 622 ½ Texas St....
In a grassy backlot, a uniformed Robert Reynolds stands beside a costumed petite woman with his arm behind her. She is wearing a costume with voluminous, puffed sleeves, a bodice adorned with lace, a long floor-length skirt, and a tall...
Robert Reynolds stands smiling with his arms crossed. He is in front of a holiday parade float with a trailer covered in snowflake designs and holly leaves.
Circus personnel driving stakes into the ground getting ready to pull canvas. The canvas is visible in the foreground with a circus wagon in the background.
In uniform, Robert Reynolds stands next to a man dressed in a three-piece suit and fedora, wearing a watch chain and a ring. There is a tent in the background with laundry drying on a support rope.
A smiling woman from the Berlo Diving Girls Diving Troupe lying against a white background with her left hand holding her head and her right hand draped over her hip. She is wearing a long black swimming garment that covers her toes....
Robert Reynolds wearing his manager’s hat, leaning with one hand up against the end of wagon number 22. A corner of a tent can be seen in the background. A decorative border with the company name Elko is printed around the picture.
Autographed headshot of actor Tim McCoy smiling broadly in costume, wearing his signature 10-gallon hat, 1935. The photograph was taken just before McCoy’s failed Wild West Show toured with Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Edna Antes at the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. circus midway
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Edna Antes, secretary treasurer of Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. circus 1960, stands in the midway. In the background, attendees of the circus are walking under the shade of a tent with painted banners, August 1960.
A grassy field is teeming with workers unloading the contents of railcars. Teams of dozens of horses hitched inside metal harnesses pull a wagon loaded with tent poles. Some tents are fully assembled. Houses can be seen in the distance.
Four men assembling ropes for tent setup in empty lot
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Four men assemble ropes for a tent set up in an empty lot. In the background are buildings, an overpass bridge, and a billboard advertisement in Spanish.
Robert Reynolds stands between two men in the bed of an International KB-233 fire truck that advertises “Clyde Beatty Trained Wild Animal Circus” with a leaping lion. Reynolds holds one end of the fire hose.
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey band pose for a photograph. The musicians are holding brass instruments and drums. Band members are wearing false black mustaches including two girls kneeling in front of the band.
A chorus line of 18 costumed women from “Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, California September 8th 1934. Inscribed verso identifies the women as part of the Swimming Leila Trapes Girls troupe.
Ella Bradna with performers on Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey backlot
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A chorus line of extravagantly costumed women. In the center, two performers hold horses wearing a feather topped bridal. A tent is in the background. “Ella Bradna RB-B&B, 1928” is exposed in the front of the photo. A decorative element...
Robert Reynolds, Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. train car
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Robert Reynolds and three others stand in front of a Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. train car. Robert is on the far left with two men beside him. A woman stands on a crate behind them.
Robert and Anna Reynolds pose for a photograph in front of a painted backdrop with a moonlit seascape, a dock, and a round life preserver that reads Hamid's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City.
An unidentified costumed female performer poses on a bench as she smiles gazing upward. She is wearing a two-piece strappy top, ruffles shorts, fishnet stockings and dance slippers. A canvas tent is behind her. The photo is inscribed, ...
A man with thick eyebrows and carefully combed hair smiles at the camera. A freckled young boy stands slightly above the man with an arm over his shoulder. A soft vignette on the photo fades out the cat textile curtain behind them.
Three unidentified women stand shoulder to shoulder wearing small hats that are askew. The two women on the outside are holding large glass bottles. Their hair and dress are reminiscent of the 1920s
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