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 their native housing structures and flags labeled "Algerians," "Australians," "Burmese," "Siamese," "Dyaks," and "Cossacks," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include star chimpanzees "Chiko and Johanna," giraffes, tigers, rhinoceroses, lions, polar bears, hippopotamuses, and bears.
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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 numerous female acrobats and aerialists performing in a tented circus arena, including acts with a unicycle and trapezes; a woman in a red costume with a parasol walks a tightrope in the left foreground.
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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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