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Cole Bros. Circus : blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile : world's largest traveling zoo



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    Image of an elephant in chains; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Cole Bros. owners Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell in upper left corner.

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  • Carson & Barnes circus : blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile

    Carson & Barnes circus : blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile

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    Image of a hippopotamus in a cage with an open gaping mouth; date sheet for an April 22, [1966], show in Hemet, California, pasted below image.

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  • Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Combined Circus : Big Otto blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile

    Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Combined Circus : Big Otto blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile

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    Image of a hippopotamus in the wild rising out of water with a gaping mouth; "The World's Largest Circus" circular logo at top right; date sheet for an August 19, [1963], show in Olean, New York, pasted below image.

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  • Cole Bros. Circus : largest menagerie on Earth

    Cole Bros. Circus : largest menagerie on Earth

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    Image of a circus menagerie with spectators viewing fenced and caged zoo animals including elephants, hippopotamus, polar bears, ostriches, seals, and zebras; "World Toured" globe logo at bottom right corner; "Cole Bros. Circus" panel pasted over another name printed on poster, presumably the Robbin Bros. Circus; date sheet for a June 18, [1936], show promoting "Ken Maynard's Wild West" in New London, Connecticut, pasted below image.

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  • Cole Bros. Circus

    Cole Bros. Circus

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    Image of elephants performing in circus rings, with elephants forming a pyramid led by an animal trainer in the foreground and elephants walking on their hind legs in background; "Cole Bros. Circus" panel pasted over "Robbins Bros. Circus" title; date sheet for a June 18, [1936], show promoting "Ken Maynard's Wild West" in New London, Connecticut, pasted below image.

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  • Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. world’s largest circus

    Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. world’s largest circus

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    Image of one male and two female aerialists swinging from trapezes, one female aerialist swinging from a ribbon held in her mouth, and a female tightrope walker balancing blindfolded on a high wire; date sheet for a Tuesday, August 1st show in Jamestown, New York, pasted below image.

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