Circus, Fairs, Amusement Parks, Rides

Please note that Coney Island images can be found in the New York City section of this website.

12569.

Madison Square Garden, NY. Barnum & Bailey, the Greatest Show on Earth poster.

12910.

The Carousel, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.

12911.

Carousel, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY.

30426.

P.T. Barnum’s Great Caravan! Entering Watkins, August 4th, 1871. This is the “earliest existing view of a Barnum circus.” See P.T. Barnum by Kunhardt, page 223.

30427.

Circus, Webster, MA Main Street.

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.

30431.

Circus Elephants.

30432.

French Carousel.

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.

30449.

Japanese Performers at Woodward’s Gardens.

30451.

10818. A Promenade wtih Mrs. Bear.

30453.

10619. Trained Bear, Atlanta Exposition.

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.

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.”

30477.

Tunkhannach Fair, Penna. Written on verso “Another view of Tunkhannach Fair, Pa. See the Pa. Mountains in the distance, very pretty up there. A real country Fair.”

30478.

Fraviola and her assistants.

30479.

The Roller Coaster, Columbia Gardens.

30480.

The Air Ships, Sans Souci Park, Chicago.

30481.

2573-The Big Four Roller Coaster, Dayton, Ohio.

30482.

864-The Flip Flop. Up, Down, Over and Around, Pan-American, Buffalo, N.Y.

30483.

15312-“Shooting the Chutes,” on “The Pike,” Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo.

30484.

The Whirlwind, Sans Souci Park, Chicago.

30485.

Novel Circus Burlesque of Kansas City Delegation, Elks Parade, Phila., July 18, 1907.

30486.

9533. Into the Jaws of death we go without a thought, California Midwinter Exposition.

30487.

The Great White Elephant, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

30488.

R99. Mexican Circus–In the Ring.

30489.

3248. A Daring Leap, Illustrating Gen. DeWet’s Escape, Boer War Spectacle, World’s Fair, St. Louis, Mo.

30490.

10747. Hagenbeck’s trained Elephant, Atlanta Exposition.

30491.

38020. Where Elephants go to School–Workers in the Winter Quarters of a Circus, Florida.

30493.

Educated Horse.