The Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus was a circus that traveled across America in the early part of the 20th century. At its peak, it was the second-largest circus...
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the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana. The circus train held 400 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus. The train used...
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The circus that Hagenbeck assembled for the Louisiana Purchase Expo was purchased and merged into the B. E. Wallace Circus as the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus...
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Showmen's Rest (category Circuses)
between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred. They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Hessville...
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performed again. On August 8, 1903, one train of the Wallace Brothers, part of the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus, was idle in the yard of Grand Trunk Railway in...
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American Circus Corporation consisted of the Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and the Al...
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Benjamin E. Wallace (October 4, 1847 – April 7, 1921) was an American circus owner and Civil War veteran who founded the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus, the second-largest...
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Hagenbeck may refer to: Tierpark Hagenbeck, a zoo in Hamburg Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, American circus Haus Hagenbeck [de], a castle in Dorsten Zeche...
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Fred Jewell (category Circus music)
He also played in or directed the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and the Sells-Floto Circus. Jewell retired from circuses in 1918. He traveled to Iowa and took...
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Madison Square Garden (1925) (section Circus)
featured performer during the circus engagements in New York and Boston before returning to the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus for a tour under canvas. Many...
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months before Richard was born; he had once been a clown with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. His birth certificate surname, Eheart, was that of his father's...
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Maria Rasputin (category 20th-century circus performers)
was in London. In 1935 she found work in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, based in Peru, Indiana. The circus toured America and Maria acted one season as...
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There have been many famous modern circuses since the first modern circus was staged by Philip Astley in London on January 9, 1768. Many are best known...
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Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and the Al G. Barnes Circus. He...
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Emmett Kelly (section Early circus career)
Circus Corporation. Included in the deal was the John Robinson show, along with the Al G. Barnes, Sparks, Sells-Floto and Hagenbeck-Wallace circuses....
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as a result. In 1932, Joseph "Barney" Harkin (1883–1943) of the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus bought the mummy, then named "John" for $5,000. Joseph and his...
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had absorbed five major shows: Sells-Floto, Al G. Barnes, Sparks, Hagenbeck-Wallace, and John Robinson. ... On July 16, 1956, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
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Freddie Freeman 2014 Terry Cavaretta 2016 Barry Lubin Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Terrell Jacobs Circus Winter Quarters International Clown Hall of Fame "National...
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Clyde Beatty (redirect from Clyde Beatty Circus)
"100th Anniversary") 1924 John Robinson 1925-1934 Hagenbeck-Wallace (sometimes Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace) 1931-1934 Played dates at Madison Square Garden...
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Floto Circus was part of the American Circus Corporation which consisted of Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and...
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circus in the capacity of vice-president and general manager. and responsible for merging Ringling Brothers with Barnum and Bailey and the Hagenbeck-Wallace...
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American Circus Corporation. American Circus already owned the Sells-Floto Circus, John Robinson Shows, Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, and Sparks Circus. That...
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as a trapeze artist with the John Robinson Circus, Kelly was hired in 1932 by the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus as a clown. It was there that he first began...
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born, was once a clown for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Skelton, who had spent some time working for the same circus as a youth, copied his father's...
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Artoria Gibbons (category American circus performers)
and at circuses for more than 35 years, including the Ringling, Barnum & Bailey Brothers Circus from 1921 to 1923 and the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus in 1924...
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train fell asleep, causing the train to run into the rear of a Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus train that was stopped near Hammond, Indiana. The accident resulted...
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the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus who was killed by an elephant in 1901. Display No. 1: WALLACE PORTER - or What It Means to See the Elephant Wallace Porter...
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circus train wreck, near Hammond, Indiana: An empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train collides into the rear end of the stopped Hagenbeck-Wallace...
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Union Market (section Circus)
Terminal, circuses used the space for their shows. It appears this continued after the construction. On August 2 and 3, 1933, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus came...
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Ballard also owned several nationally recognized touring circuses, including the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Between 1918 and 1919, while the hotel was being refurbished...
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