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Vintage clown photos capture old circus culture

The old clown photos in TASCHEN's The Circus. 1870s–1950s are incredible. A lot of the clowns look more fantastical than ...
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Clowns have hot girlfriends, and other things I learned on the circus train

Your intrepid clown correspondent dined with with Johnathan Iverson, the ringmaster of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (in town through Sunday), and got a behind-the-scenes glimpse of ...
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AP Exclusive: a look inside the ‘pie car’ and the last days of Ringling Bros.

New York City photographer Julie Jacobson and Michelle Smith, Providence, Rhode Island, correspondent, spent weeks negotiating with the parent company of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...
Altoona Mirror

‘I don’t want them to forget’ – Ceremony dedicates circus train monument ungrades

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...