Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a tented circus arena with spectators viewing Asian and African performers who form the "Grand Ethnological Congress," with models of native housing structures and flags labeled "Sikhs" and "Singalese," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include elephants, camels, cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, horses, zebras, bison, and alpacas.
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Image of spectators in a large tent viewing zoo animals, with animals including rhinoceroses, lions, hippopotamuses, polar bears, giraffes, and seals in caged circus wagons, and animals including cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, oxen, zebras, horses, llamas, deer, camels, and elephants in a center roped area.
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Image of a large circus tent with spectators viewing a menagerie of zoo animals in caged circus wagons and behind fences in a central arena; caged animals include seals, lions, tigers, polar bears, monkeys, and a tapir; the fenced animals include giraffes, elephants, a rhinoceros, hippopotamuses, gorillas, ostriches, antelope, bison, zebras, deer, and camels; center cage is labeled "Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great"'; "The Greatest Show on Earth" globe logo at bottom right.
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Image of a parade of circus wagons, each containing zoo animals and an animal trainer, proceeding around a track in an indoor arena with spectators looking on; the first wagon is labeled "Royal Bengal Tigers"; portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at left.
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Image of spectators in a circus tent viewing zoo animals in circus wagons including a lion, tigers, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and a polar bear, and elephants and giraffes in fenced areas; the hippopotamus cage includes a pool and the sign "Only pair of Hippopotami male & female with any exhibition," and the roof of the tiger cage has the sign "The entire & undivided plant of 2 stupendous menageries, each hitherto the largest in existence and now exhibited as one"; small vignette with group head-and-shoulders portrait presumably of three Sells brothers Ephraim Sells, Peter Sells, and Lewis Sells at upper left.
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Image of a circus street parade featuring a bandwagon and circus wagons with zoo animals, including lions and tigers, and animal trainers, circling a small fenced park with a lawn and water fountain, with multi-story buildings in the background; a man on horseback holds a flag labeled "Parade Section No. 4."
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