30428.
Circus Side Shows. Beauties of Lake Winnipesaukee and its Shores.
30429.
Unidentified Fair. Banners for Side Show Freaks.
30430.
Circus Parade, Rochester, NY. 1890. Information from Fred Dahlinger: This view is either a late 1880s Barnum & London parade or an early 1890s Barnum & Bailey parade. The noteworthy feature is the lead elephant with howdah and the “sidesaddle” riders on either side, aloft on little platforms.
30431.
Circus Elephants. Information from Fred Dahlinger: I have seen this also in an orange mount. It was in company with another orange mount showing a wagon from the 1870s with the Yankee Robinson circus. The same pair of punk elephants were also in it. Location given as Rockford, IL fairgrounds Yankee was a companion with the Ringling brothers in their 1884 inaugural tour.
30432.
French Carousel. Champs Elysees, Paris.
30433.
Primitive Ferris Wheel. Sign says “5 Cents a Ride Children Under 6 ?? 5.”
30434.
1351. The Ferris Wheel.
30435.
1350. The Ferris Wheel at Night.
30436.
313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.
30437.
309. Midway Plaisance from Ill. Central Viaduct.
30438.
Traveling Troupe at Annual Fair held at Pappenheim Germany.
30439.
Annual Fair at Pappenheim Germany.
30440.
Slack-wire Performers at the Annual Fair at Pappenheim Germany.
30441.
Annual Fair at Pappenheim Germany.
30442.
Dijon, April 1898.
30443.
Ferris Wheel and Carousel.
30444.
Unidentified acrobat.
30445.
Unidentified acrobat.
30446.
Unidentified acrobats.
30447.
Unidentified acrobats.
30448.
Japan. O Shishi, Street Tumblers.
30449.
Japanese Performers at Woodward’s Gardens.
30450.
Minneapolis Turners.
30451.
10818. A Promenade wtih Mrs. Bear.
30452.
15328. The trained bear, Yang-Tse-Kiang valley, China.
30453.
10619. Trained Bear, Atlanta Exposition.
30454.
Gipsies on the Road.
30455.
Bowman’s Bear Picture.
30456.
2132. The Educated Bear.
30457.
2133. The Educated Bear.
30458.
4209. English Jack and his Bear.
30459.
4206. Performing Grizzly Bear.
30460.
5723. Acrobats far from their mountain home–grizzly bears in a street at Jacksonville, Florida.
30461.
No. 7. The Bear at Glen House.
30462.
Signed on verso “Compliments of J.H. Sullivan (Broncho John).
30463.
Performing Grizzly Bear.
30464.
Performing Bear.
30465.
Ethardo on the spiral platform, Crystal Palace.
30466.
Carnival in Mishawaka, Ind.
30467.
Carnival in Mishawaka, Ind.
30468.
Phillion in his spiral tower feat.
30469.
Punch.
30469.
Punch.
30470.
Gentleman with his advertising Ferris Wheel. Words on some of the cars: “Confectioner,” “and,” “Refreshment,” “Contractor,” “Banquets,” etc. Information from Fred Dahlinger: This wheel with observation platforms at axle height is the British Graydon wheel of 1895.
30471.
Clown with Elephant.
30472.
34398. A Real Clown and His Trick Dog.
30473.
Circus Clowns on the Beach, Margate, Kent Co., England.
30474.
The Giant See Saw (225 feet high), Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, Neb.
30475.
Lake Hopatacong, New Jersey.
30476.
Lake Hopatacong, New Jersey. Written on verso “Parts of the Amusement Park at Lake Hopatacong, N.J. This Aeroplane Swings over the lake. Some roller coaster Georgie.”