Barnum Collection (page 2)

Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth. Poster showing a horse leaping through a flaming hoop. Date c1898. Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth

Circus poster showing cowboys performing riding and rope tricks. Date c1900

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth - The great Coney Island water carnival... Poster showing performers diving and clowns in the ocean at Coney Island, New York. Date c1898

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth - The celebrated ponies Jupiter & Joie... Poster showing two ponies, one with rider, jumping over an obstacle. Date c1898

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth - The realistic jungle menagerie... Poster showing animals on display and performers beneath palm trees. Date c1897

Barnum the hypnotist. Date 19 -

Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt Der welt grosstes, grossartigstes, bestes amusements-institut. Men in military uniforms standing while bareback riding on horses

Farewell ride on Jumbo
A Farewell ride on Jumbo. The famous and popular African elephant kept at the London Zoological Gardens at Regents Park, London, giving a group of children a ride on his back

Barnum & Bailey Chimps
Performing Chimpanzees of the Barnum & Bailey circus in Austria

Baby Elephant Pickpocket at Olympia, London, 1893
Sketch showing one of Barnum and Baileys elephants investigating the pocket of a female visitor to the circus, Olympia, London, 1893

Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)
Portrait of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the American showman and promoter, pictured in 1884

Sacred White Elephant
The sacred white Burmese Elephant secured by P T Barnum in 1883, named Toung Taloung. Such an animal had been sought with a passion by Barnum for many years

Juggling on Horseback
A girl with Barnum & Baileys circus, juggles four balls which standing on the back of a cantering horse

Horseback Acrobatics
A couple with Barnum & Baileys circus, perform an impressive feat. He controls two horses, with a foot on eachs back, while she stands balanced on his knee

Tom Thumb / Pony Carriage
The stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton - pictures here with miniture carriage and attendants. Achieved great fame under circus pioneer P T Barnum. Grew to 3ft 4 inches

Pt Barnum / Punch 1884
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM American showman

Phineas Taylor Barnum
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM American showman - opened museum of curios, exhibited Tom Thumb and imported Jumbo

J A BAILEY American impressario and associate of Barnum

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