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camels in the Ringling Brothers circus
Patricia Bourne training lions
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World
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P.T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum
American showman
Clyde Beatty
Clyde Beatty
American animal trainer
Guy Laliberté
Canadian performer and entrepreneur
Kelly, Emmett
Emmett Kelly
American clown
Not in costume
Dan Rice
American clown
Franconi, detail of an engraving by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, after a painting by C. Vernet
Antonio Franconi
Italian circus impresario
Philip Astley, engraving by J. Smith.
Philip Astley
British circus manager
George Sanger
British circus impresario
Ducrow, engraving by T.C. Wageman
Andrew Ducrow
British equestrian
Bertram Mills
British circus entrepreneur
Popov, Oleg
Oleg Popov
Russian clown
General Tom Thumb
General Tom Thumb
American showman
James A. Bailey
American circus impresario
W.C. Coup
American circus manager
Karl Wallenda
American acrobat
John Sanger
British circus impresario
Gilbert R. Spaulding
American circus impresario
Alfredo Codona
circus performer