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Great Days of the Circus

Freeman H. Hubbard - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1962 - 164 pages
Paintings, prints, drawings, posters, photographs, and narrative create the excitement of a circus's coming to town.
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Circus Heroes and Heroines

Rhina Kirk - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1972 - 94 pages
Brief profiles of famous circus personalities such as P. T. Barnum, Tom Thumb, Clyde Beatty, and Annie Oakley plus a short history of the origins of the circus.
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Marvellous Miss May: Queen of the Circus

Stephanie Owen Reeder - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2018 - 138 pages
In 1901, aged just seven, tiny contortionist May Zinga was given away to Wirth Brothers Circus by her desperate mother. Imagine Miss May's horror when the first thing the ...
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The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story

Henry Ringling North - Circus performers - 1960 - 408 pages
The story of an American family who achieved the peak of the entertainment world by imagination, daring, and gambling enterprise.
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Beneath the Big Top: A Social History of the Circus in Britain

Steve Ward - Performing Arts - 2014 - 373 pages
“A valuable and illuminating read, shedding a lot of light on the political, economic and technological factors that have driven circus evolution” (The Circus Diaries). Beneath ...
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