RINGLING BROS. BARNUM AND BAILEY

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Magazine and Daily Review 1929

Sarasota, FL: Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, 1928. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is a show program for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus for the year 1928. The program is lacking the covers and is in Fair only condition. The outermost pages have edge tears and some chips missing to the spine edges and page edges. One page has been pulled free, and laid-in. Overall, a reading copy of this program. "Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus, also known as the Ringling Bros. Circus, Barnum & Bailey Circus, Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey or simply Ringling was an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. Known as Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, the circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. Following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919." (from Wikipedia). Fair .

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Book number: 36949

Catalogue: Circus

Keywords: Circus Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus

KELLEY, FRANCIS BEVERLY AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE

The Land of Sawdust and Spangles October 1931

Washington D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1931. Magazine. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a bound copy of National Geographics, featuring 27 leaves (53 pages) on the world of the Circus. The magazine is in Very Good condition. There is wear and chipping to the spine ends and spine of the book cover. The covers have several patches of toning / ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are 34 black and white and full color photographs. Also included are: The Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition Reaches Kashmir (by Maynard Owen Williams, The Five Thousand Temples of Pagan by William H. Roberts, Burma's Hills Flash with Color (by W. Robert Moore) , and, the Country That Moves by Night (Richard H. Stewart and Orren R. Louden). Very Good .

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Book number: 36952

Catalogue: Circus

Keywords: Circus Francis Beverly Kelley National Geographic Magazine Entertainment Circus

SELLS-FLOTO CIRCUS SOUVENIR PROGRAM

The Life of Tom MIX (Illustrated)

New York, NY: Sells-Floto Circus, 1931. Periodical. B&W Illustrations; This is a magazine sized periodical / souvenir program for the 1931 season. The Magazine is in Good only condition, with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The program was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends, corners and edges of the covers have wear, rubbing, creasing and wrinkling and the majority of the spine has tearing. The text pages are generally clean, but do have tears and wrinkles and there are a couple of small bits clipped out. This program features several pages of black and white photos of the star of the show - Tom Mix. Later pages include photos of other acts, including the clowns, several animal acts, and even a posed photo showing Jack Dempsey and Tom Mix after a bout ("four fast rounds"). "The circus had four elephant births, three born to "Alice" and one to "Mama Mary". The sire of all four was "Snyder". None survived longer than five months. By 1929 the Sells Floto Circus was part of the American Circus Corporation which consisted of Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and the Al G. Barnes Circus. John Nicholas Ringling then bought American Circus Corporation for $1.7-million creating a monopoly of traveling circus in America." (from Wikipedia). Good .

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Book number: 46472

Catalogue: Circus

Keywords: Circus Sells-floto Circus Ephemera Souvenir Program Tom Mix Clowns Circus Ephemera