WELCOME to my collection of CIRCUS MEMORABILIA. You'll find items concerning the big shows like RINGLING BROS. and COLE BROS. and small one ring circuses such as FISHER BROS. and BARNES & DAILY. I'm glad that you've decided to visit. Come on in and wander around the site for awhile.--Hartland B. Smith
See CENTURY OLD PHOTOS AND A MODERN PENNANT.
RINGLING BROS. at Detroit, Michigan IN 1934.
An excerpt from the book HOSPITALoffers a behind the scenes view of Ringling's 1934 OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER.
You can read here about MY ONLY CONNECTION WITH RINGLING.
Here's a clip which shows KELLY-MILLER CIRCUS SIDEWALLIN' AT WESTLAND.
Click on
TRUE CIRCUS WORK HORSES the chain drive Mack Trucks.
To view a rare photo of THE GREAT WALLENDAS performing soon
after their disastrous Detroit accident in 1962 and to
see the AL G. KELLY AND MILLER BROS. SHOW in 1953
CLICK HERE.
FISHER BROS. CIRCUS came to Mackinaw City, Michigan in the Bicentennial year of 1976.
See views of America's
LAST REAL
CIRCUS PARADE.
Here are a number of 1944 and 1946 photos snapped in Pontiac,
Michigan showing
COLE BROS. CIRCUS, one of the last of the big railroad
shows.
Both Florida and Michigan pix of Ringling's upscale
but somewhat short-lived tent show,
BARNUM'S KALEIDOSCAPE,
appear on these pages.
CIRCUS FLORA
as seen in Scottsdale, Arizona.
View a color photo and read about the Showmen's
League of America's
ELEPHANT STATUE MEMORIAL
which is located in Chicago's Woodlawn Cemetery. Among those
buried here are 56 casualties of the 1918 Hagenbeck-Wallace
train wreck.
See EIGHT pages of color pix and text
regarding
THE CARSON & BARNES CIRCUS setting up at Milford, Michigan on
August 18, 1998.
View a
1983 FORD BROS. CIRCUS POSTER.
Here are three pages of
OLD CIRCUS POSTERS.
The GEORGE W. COLE CIRCUS
played Mackinaw City, Michigan during 1957.
BARNES & DAILY showed in Mackinaw City on Labor Day, 1974.
See KING BROS. CIRCUS AT PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN IN 1971
Visit the
CLYDE BEATTY CIRCUS
in 1962. Many interesting Circus Web Sites may be reached
by clicking on
MY LINKS PAGE.
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