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Cole Bros. Circus : the children's favorite circus

Description: Image of two children riding a hippopotamus, with three clowns and a circus tent in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1935
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000096
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Bailey, Bill. (1887-1961.); Biggerstaff, Bill. (-1975.); Butler, Roland, (1886-1955.)

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

Visual Materials

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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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

Visual Materials

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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Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt : ein wahrer wirrwar der drolligsten einfalle von spassmachern in menge

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Image of whiteface male clown musicians playing various instruments and three female whiteface clowns doing a gymnastic act in a center ring under a circus tent, with additional clowns performing in the background; one clown plays a drum labeled "Barnum & Bailey."

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Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus

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Image in two separate panels: top image of title "Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus" and a bottom image of the head of a roaring lion head; "The Greatest Circus on Earth" globe logo at bottom left of lion panel.

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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 : the children's favorite circus

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