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Cole Bros. Circus

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1935?
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000094
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Cole Bros. Circus : Cole Bros. Circus presents quarter-million pound act of performing elephants the most colossal trained animal display ever presented

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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

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Cristiani Bros. Circus : world's largest

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Image of four elephants standing on their hind legs with a female circus performer, and a ring with performing elephants and a male animal trainer and female performer in the background; date sheet for an August 20-30, [1959], show in Los Angeles, California, pasted below image.

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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 : two railroad trains of double length cars jammed with wonders from all parts of the world

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Image of circus animals including elephants, zebras, horses, llamas, and camels being unloaded from rows of circus trains; date sheet for a June 18, [1936], show promoting "Ken Maynard's Wild West" in New London, Connecticut, pasted below image; the rear of one car is labeled "Cole Bros. Circus."

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Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Combined Circus : Clyde Beatty in person

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Image of a lion tamer with a stool and stick holding back a roaring lion on its hind legs; vignettes of a clown, hippopotamus, circus tent, and elephant at center left; "The World's Largest Circus" circular logo at top right; date sheet for a June 26, [1962], show in Lorain, Ohio, pasted below image.

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Wallace Bros. World’s Largest Circus

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Image of a female circus performer balancing on the head of an elephant, with horses standing on their hind legs in the foreground; date sheet for a July 4, [1961], show in Lorain, Ohio, pasted below image.

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Cole Bros. Circus

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