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 No. Main Entry Description Date Accession Size Drawer
C-1 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Snarling tiger head on red background; yellow lettering 1942 Purchased Garvie 27.5 x 42 1
C-2 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Snow White Horses and Beautiful Women Chaste in Classic Poses: Chiseled Wonders of the World's Master Sculptors, white figures on blue pedestals 1916 exchange J.H. Dunn 30 x 40 1
C-3 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Irme Kiralfy's Columbus and the Discovery of America Reproduction of the "Last Farewell" on the "Eve of Departure" 1891 exchange McC 29.5 x 40 1
C-4 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey grand plan of circus presenting modern means of locomotion (predominately bicycles) 1896 exchange J.H. Dunn 40 x 56.5 1
C-5 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Herd of smallest full grown pigmy Elephants   exchange J.H. Dunn
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C-6 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Terrell Jacobs w/ group of performing black leopards 1938 exchange J.H. Dunn 21 x 28 1
C-7 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Marcellus Troupe: Living Art Creations in Bronze n.d. Renton Collection 28 x 41 1
C-8 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey The Durbar of Delhi; Indian scene replete with elephants and local color               n.d. Renton Collection 26.75 x 41 1
C-9 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey at top: acrobats on trapeze & highwire, gold-caped elephants; middle: white horses in center; foreground: black horses 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 23.5 x 42 1
C-10 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey World's Biggest Menagerie immense rhinoceros approaching 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 26 x 42 1
C-11 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey tusked hippo mother & baby; background primarily in blue 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 41 x 28 1
C-12 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey monkeys attending circus performance: 13 monkeys, 1 elephant, 1 pig "admission 2 nuts" 1943 Ringling Bros.  28.5 x 42 1
C-13 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey roaring lion in lower right hand, corner red and yellow lettering, blue background n.d. Hopper of Ringling Bros. 28 x 41.75 1
C-14 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents Old King Cole and Mother Goose; in background: Mother Goose; at fore, Old King Cole; black background n.d. O.H. Meeker 28 x 42 1
C-15 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Band Wagon; Merle Evans Director of Music band in cart emblazoned with scrolls, liberty bell and word "liberty" 1943 Hopper of Ringling Bros. 26.25 x 42 1
C-16 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey afternoon & night- Hartford Harbour St Show Grounds Wed. July 5-Thurs. July 6; red & white & blue 1944 Garvie 41.5 x 27.75 1
C-17 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 4 giraffes; red lettering, yellow sky 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 42 x 28 1
C-18 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown's head w/ red bulbous nose; yellow lettering, deep blue background; "see you at…the greatest show on earth" 1944 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 42 x 27.75 1
 
C-19 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown's head w/ red bulbous nose; yellow lettering, deep blue background; "see you at…the greatest show on earth" n.d.   42 x 27.75 1
C-20 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey head of hippo, jaws agape, in upper left yellow and green background, blue lettering 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 42 x 28 1
 
C-21 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey head of hippo, jaws agape, in upper left yellow and green background, blue lettering 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 42 x 28 1
C-22 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella sitting down- green, beige, pink, red, and yellow; blue background-red, white, pink lettering 1942 Garvie 42 x 27.5 1
C-23 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant with majorette; lurid yellow background, red and green letters n.d.   40 x 28 1
 
 C-24 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant with majorette; lurid yellow background, red and green letters, different layout from C-23 n.d.   28 x 40 1
C-25 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey "Let Freedom Ring"; elephants with gold capes and winged helmets; red background, blue lettering n.d. Garvie 25.5 x 40 1
C-26 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 4 giraffes; red lettering, yellow sky n.d.   28 x 21 1
C-27 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey World's Biggest Menagerie Madison Square Garden 47 days beginning April 4 to May 20; top half animals, bottom half announcement, red and blue lettering 1945 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 24.75 x 28 1
C-28 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey tribe of Genuine Ubangi Savages- with mouths and lips as large as those of full-grown crocodiles n.d. Renton Collection 21 x 27.75 1
 
 C-29 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey "Let Freedom Ring"; elephants with gold capes and winged helmets; red background, blue lettering n.d.   28 x 42 1
 
 C-30 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown's head w/ red bulbous nose; yellow lettering, deep blue background; "see you at…the greatest show on earth" n.d.   42 x 27.75 1
C-31 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey laughing clown head at left; blue background, yellow lettering; head looks rather like a skull n.d.   28 x 42 1
C-32 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey no picture, art deco, red lettering and blue and white background n.d. Hopper of Ringling Bros. 28 x 42 1
C-33 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey "New animal acts that amaze and delight"; at left: monkeys, middle: bears, at right: small animals 1956 exchange J.H. Dunn 30 x 40 1
C-34 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great 2 gorillas, male shown in aggressive pose across center; yellow background; at bottom: for 80 years the Greatest Show on Earth n.d. O.H. Meeker 28 x 42 1
 
 C-35 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant with majorette; lurid yellow background, red and green letters n.d.   28 x 40 1
 
 C-36 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant with majorette; lurid yellow background, red and green letters n.d.   40 x 28 1
C-37 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey snarling leopard's head in center, green background, white and yellow lettering n.d. O.H. Meeker 42 x 28 1
C-38 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella sitting down- green, beige, pink, red, and yellow; blue background-red, white, pink lettering n.d. O.H. Meeker 28 x 42 1
C-39 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 4 giraffes; red lettering, yellow sky n.d.   42 x 28 1
 
 C-40 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella sitting down- green, beige, pink, red, and yellow; blue background-red, white, pink lettering 1944 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 42 x 27.5 1
 
 C-41 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey hippo head 1942 Hopper of Ringling Bros. 42 x 28 1
C-42 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey World's Biggest Menagerie red lettering, circus ring: cages in front, elephants in back form in a circle 1948 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 23 x 42 1
C-43 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey snarling green-eyed tiger in upper right with golden moon, deep blue and back background at Madison Square Garden 1942 Hopper of Ringling Bros. 41.75 x 28 1
C-44 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents "Hold Your Horses" spectacle recalling Happy Hours of Bygone Circus Days; red, blue, and black lettering on yellow background n.d. Garvie 25.5 x 21 1
C-45 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great; Mr. Holds sign with "The Greatest Show on Earth", Mrs. Holds a "Buy War Bonds" sign n.d. Hopper of Ringling Bros. 28 x 42 1
 
 C-46 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey snarling leopard's head in center with red lettering n.d. O.H. Meeker 42 x 28 1
 
 C-47 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown's face on thick cardboard "discount coupons available at this Penn Fruit" Convention Hall, Philadelphia 1963   28 x 22 1
 
 C-48 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey snarling leopard n.d.   28 x 21 1
 
 C-49 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella; "Madison Square Garden" at bottom n.d.   34 x 21 1
 
 C-50 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey no picture, art deco, red lettering and blue and white background n.d. Hopper of Ringling Bros. 16.5 x 26 1
 
 C-51 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey presents "Hold Your Horses" spectacle recalling Happy Hours of Bygone Circus Days; red, blue, and black lettering on yellow background n.d. Garvie 19 x 26 1
C-52 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey pouncing tiger at top, charging lion at bottom, red lettering on blue, animals on green n.d.   28 x 21 1
 
 C-53 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey head of hippo 1942 Hopper of Ringling Bros. 28 x 21 1
 
C-54 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown's head w/ red bulbous nose; yellow lettering, deep blue background; "see you at…the greatest show on earth"; Madison Square Garden in red, white and blue at bottom n.d. Ringling Bros. 34.25 x 21 1
C-55 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey blue lettering on pink; woman in blue with white horse, Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros. 34.25 x 22 1
 
 C-56 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 4 giraffes; red lettering, yellow sky, Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros. 34.25 x 22 1
 
 C-57 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant and majorette 1945 Ringling Bros. 34.25 x 21 1
C-58 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey red lettering on green background, 3 monkeys in circus costume and elephant on pedestal, Madison Square Garden 1944 Barnum & Bailey 34 x 20.25 1
 
 C-59 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey green-eyed tiger with golden moon plus Madison Square Garden n.d. Ringling Bros. 34 x 19.5 1
C-60 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey red lettering on yellow, 3 seals with trainers, plus Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros. 34 x 20 1
 
C-61 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey hippo mama and baby 1945   28 x 20.5 1
C-62 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey incredible Unus "The Talk of the Universe", pink suited balancer in two poses, green-yellow background n.d.   27 x 20.25 1
C-63 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey yellow lettering on red background, white-faced clown with gloves, hat, and blue-edged ruffle 1954   20.5 x 28 1
C-64 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey yellow lettering on blue background; elephant with cap and clown reclining on his trunk 1945     1
 
 C-65 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown's head 1954   28 x 21 1
 
 C-66 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey snarling leopard head in center n.d. O.H. Meeker 27.75 x 20.5 1
C-67 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey no picture, yellow lettering on blue background n.d.   20.5 x 28 1
 
 C-68 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey green-eyed tiger with golden moon 1942 Hopper of Ringling Bros. 28 x 28 1
 
 C-69 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey head of hippo, yellow and green background 1944 Barnum & Bailey 33.75 x 20 1
 
 C-70 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with cap and blue and white ruffle     20.5 x 28 1
 
 C-71 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey no picture, yellow lettering on blue background n.d.   20.5 x 28 1
C-72 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey red, white, and blue; photo of clown's head at left with red-edged ruffle n.d.   20.25 x 28 1
C-73 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey The Great Alzanas- High Wire Daredevils; two women dangling from bicycle ridden by a man, plus man on wire n.d.   20.5 x 27 1
 
 C-74 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey red, white, and blue; photo of clown's head at left with red-edged ruffle n.d.   20.25 x 28 1
 
 C-75 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey snarling tiger head in lower left, yellow lettering on red n.d.   21 x 28 1
 
 C-76 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey rhinoceros, World's Biggest Menagerie n.d.   21 x 28 1
 
 C-77 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey roaring lion n.d.   21 x 28 1
 
 C-78 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey hippo head 1944   34 x 19 1
 
 C-79 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey green-eyed tiger with golden moon, plus Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros. 34 x 21.5 1
 
 C-80 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey hippo head 1945 Ringling Bros. 34 x 22 1
 
 C-81 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 3 monkeys with elephant on green background 1945 Ringling Bros. 34 x 20.5 1
 
 C-82 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant and majorette, Madison Square Garden   Ringling Bros. 30 x 28 1
 
 C-83 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with cap and blue and white ruffle, Madison Square Garden 1945   30 x 28 1
 
 C-84 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey no picture; red, white, and blue; Madison Square Garden 1945   30 x 28 1
 
 C-85 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 13 monkeys and elephant; Madison Square Garden 1943 Ringling Bros. 30 x 28 1
 
 C-86 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great; Madison Square Garden 1944 Barnum & Bailey 30 x 28 1
 
 C-87 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great; Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros. 30 x 28 1
 
 C-88 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella   Ringling Bros. 30 x 28 1
 
 C-89 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey woman with horse; Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros. 30 x 28 1
 
 C-90 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey at top: acrobats on trapeze & highwire, gold-caped elephants; middle: white horses in center; foreground: black horses, clowns 1945 Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey 23.5 x 42 1
 
 C-91 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant and majorette   Garvie 26 x 21 1
 
 C-92 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey The World's Biggest Menagerie; Madison Square Garden 1944 Barnum & Bailey 25 x 27.75 1
 
 C-93 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella; Madison Square Garden 1945 Ringling Bros.
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C-94 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey giraffes (4 adults and 1 baby), elephant, and "Sulus" with a yellow-orange shield   Renton Collection 39 x 25.5 1
 
 C-95 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clown with umbrella   Garvie 27.5 x 40 1
C-96 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 1946 Season's Greetings Calendar     21.5 x 17 1
 
 C-97 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 1946 Season's Greetings Calendar     21.5 x 17 1
 
 C-98 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 1 of 2 parts that together form a large poster of clown with umbrella     56 x 42 1
 
 C-99 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 2nd of 2 parts     56 x 42 1
 
 C-100 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 1 of 2 parts, elephant with majorette     56 x 42 1
 
 C-101 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 2nd of 2 parts     56 x 42 1
C-102 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey on cardboard, yellow lettering on red, clown with hat     22 x 14 1
C-103 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey handbill; Tupelo Fri. Oct. 29, one side: world famous stars that have no equal anywhere, other side: 5 ring circus, animal acts; black, white, and red     28 x 10.5 1
C-104 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Menagerie poster (black and white repro of C-27) animals numbered and labeled below 1945 Ringling Bros. 21 x 28 1
C-105 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey key to sea lions poster (black and white repro of C-60) 1945 Ringling Bros. 33 x 19.5 1
C-106 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey key to Circus Interior Poster (black and white repro of C-106) with key     21.75 x 28 1
C-107 Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Great Shows Consolidated The only 2-horned sumatra rhinoceros and African and South American beasts and birds

c.1896, 1897

 exchange McC 30 x 40 2
C-108 Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Great Shows Consolidated Greater New York's Greeting at the Dewey Arch to the Glorious Paragon of all Parades; columns and elephants 1900 exchange McC 30 x 40 2
C-109 Adam Forepaugh's New and Greatest All-Feature Show The $50,000 Troupe of Educated Broncos: "horses at school" and 10 pictures of individual horses     42 x 28 2
C-110 Adam Forepaugh's Shows Fall of Ninevah; colorful handbill on plastic backing 1892?   46 x 15 2
C-111 Forepaugh's World's Greatest Show handbill; will tour Madison and Wisconsin; on plastic backing 1876   21 x 14 2
 
 C-112 Forepaugh's World's Greatest Show the Only Herd of 7 Performing Elephants also hippopotamus 1876    21 x 14 2
C-113 Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Great Shows Consolidated High School Equestrianism; the New Woman on Horseback 1899 exchange McC 30 x 40 2
C-114 Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Enormous Shows United The Leading Sections of our New and Magnificent Military and Spectacular Free Street Parade   exchange McC 30 x 77 2
C-115 P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth and Great London Circus Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and Grand International Allied Shows; various kinds of ibex, yaks, goats, etc. Probably unique. 1880 exchange McC 38 x 27 2
C-116 Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Enormous Shows Combined 1st American appearance of the Arrigosi Sisters- high trapeze leaps and dives garbed in long skirts  1896   39 x 29 2
C-117 M.L. Clark and Sons Combined Shows "The Most Daring and Attractive Male and Female Champions of the World in Acts of Apparent Incredibility" 14 acrobats   purchased by A.M. Smith 27.5 x 42 2
C-118 Sample Sheet, No Name red, white, and blue, 5 framed pictures- 1 large, 4 smaller, all with horses and people depicted     22.75 x 15.75 2
C-119 Sample Sheet, No Name old, black ink on white depicting 41 small picture of monstrosities, freaks, rhinoceros, hippopatami, horses, elephants, giraffes, sea lions- from a Sample Book pre-1850 Mr. Dunn 24 x 36 2
C-120 Adam Forepaugh Shows colorful showbill; Fall of Ninevah and Hippodrome 1872   46 x 16 2
C-121 Great American Circus laughing clown at bottom; at Princeton Shopping Center, July 6; on cardboard     22 x14 2
C-122 Sells Brothers showbill- pink newsprint on both sides, encased in plastic     41.5 x 9.5 2
C-123 James Robinson showbill with 2 sides: Champion Circus Rider of the World; newsprint 1880   27.75 x 10.5 2
C-124 Welsh and Sands Railroad Circus and Royal English Menagerie, showbill- 2 sides, newsprint 1880   10.25 x 28 2
C-125 Wallace and Co. Grand Balloon Ascension, showbill- 2 sides, newsprint 1889   28 x 10.25 2
C-126 Hemmings and Cooper's Menagerie and Circus showbill- 2 sides, newsprint 1871   26 x 9 2
C-127 Grand Mammoth Balloon Ascension showbill, newsprint; Flint, Michigan 1879   28 x 10.25 2
C-128 Consolidation of Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie & Great International Show showbill- 2 sides: "100 massive dens and lairs"     28 x 13.5 2
C-129 Adam Forepaugh Shows "Coming 1200 stron" on 3 great Railway Trains; showbill- 2 sides, newsprint 1891   28 x 10.5 2
C-130 Barnum's American Museum Two Living Giraffes-or Camelopard's showbill-2 sides, enclosed in plastic and supported 1853, Oct. 29   21 x 7.5 2
C-131 Barnum and London showbill- 2 sides, 8 United Monster Shows, Jumbo the Elephant, "Guilty! Most Guilty!"     28 x 10.5 2
C-132 Buffalo Bill photograph, no picture 1890     2
 
C-133 Buffalo Bill photograph, no picture 1890     2
 
C-134 Buffalo Bill photograph, no picture 1890     2
C-135 Wild West and Great Forepaugh Shows The Atrocious Mountain Meadow Massacre etc., showbill, 2 sides 1890   29 x 10.5 2
C-136 Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Rough Riders U.S. Cavalry and Artillery Practice Drills and Military Evolution 1908 exchange McC 30 x 39.5 2