Partial Index of articles, 2000 - 2008

When you become a member of the Circus Historical Society, you receive Bandwagon, the CHS's journal published six times a year. The partial index of past articles below gives an idea of the scope of articles published in Bandwagon.

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January-February 2008, Vol. 52, No. 1

Finding aid, Name Index for this issue.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, The Riding Richters at the Monte Carlo Circus, 2008.

• "The Greatest Place on Earth," an Assessment of Circus World, Don Stacey, pp. 4-14. History of Circus World, the Orlando, Florida circus theme park, from 1972 to 1986. Reprinted from King Pole, No. 162, March-April, 2007. Many illustrations, photos.

• Norma Davenport Christiani, Born into "Society" for Trouping Career, Part One, Lane Talburt, pp. 15-24. Not only biographical information on Norma, but also on her parents, Ben and Eva Davenport. Also Pete Christiana's as a fill-in "fixer" on Dailey Bros. Photos and illustrations.

• The Goodrich, Hoffman and Southey Show: Incorporating a Connecticut Circus, John Polacsek, pp. 25-34. Details on framing this show 1900-1901. Many colorful illustration.

November-December 2007, Vol. 51, No. 6

Finding aid, Name Index for this issue.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Cover of P. T. Barnum's Circus children's book, 1888.

• American Circus in the 1870s: An overview from newspaper sources, Fred D. Pfening III, pp. 4-60. Information from nationwide newspapers on shows, people, circus life, public opinion, etc. Information on online newspaper sources.

• Nate Salsbury's Black America: A gigantic exhibition of negro life and character, Richard A. Georgian, pp. 63-70. Details on the formation, features and descriptions, performers, public response to this novel show that traveled 1895. The show featured 300 black performers. Includes a partial list of performers. Brief information on the "Darkest America" production (1896-1899). Illustrated.

• Ringling-Barnum's 1942 Menagerie Fire, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 73-77. Details on the August 4, 1892 fire with many photographs.

• Circusing in Europe, Al Stencell, pp. 80-86. Stencell's descriptions and photographs of some European circuses 1971 - 2006. Knie, Krone, Althoff's, Roncalli, and others.

• Cliff Vargas: Take him or leave him - or get fired, Lane Talburt, pp. 89-95. Clifford E. Vargas and his show. Details on this colorful circus showman. Many photographs.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 104-105. Photos and narrative. Candy butchers, John Robinson's early 1920s, Gee Gee Engesser, elephant Lucy, and more.

• Bill Kaiska's Letterheads, p. 109. Sells Bros. Circus, 1894.

September-October 2007, Vol. 51, No. 5

Finding aid, Name Index for this issue.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Lucio Cristiani, 1973.

• "Popcorn" George W. Hall, A Wisconsin Showman, Ruth Ann Montgomery, pp. 3-22. Biography of Hall, circus owner and animal trainer, from 1847 to 1918. Photos, illustrations.

• From Frying Pan to Fire: Ruffin Switches to Vargas,Part Three, Lane Talburt, pp. 23-29. America's first black wild animal trainer. Photos.

• More Ramblings from Red Sonnenberg, Red Sonnenberg, pp. 30-37.

• A Cancer Remedy? "Join the Circus", Lane Talburt, pp. 38-41. Frank Felt's second career as circus manager and owner. Photos.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 42-43. Roland Tiebor's seals, circus concert/aftershow, etc. Photos.

July-August 2007, Vol. 51, No. 4

Finding aid, Name Index for this issue.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1916 Cook & Wilson Circus.

• Circus Kirk, The All-American All-Student Show, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 3-13. This circus was the first touring tented circus in which every cast and crew members were in high school or college. Traveled from 1969-1977. Photos, illustrations.

• William E. "Bud" Gorman and Polly Lee, Riders, John Daniel Draper, pp. 15-21. Lee and Gorman circus families, 1849-1919, photos, illustrations.

• Injury Stalked Junior Ruffin's Performing Career with Cats, Lane Talburt, pp. 22-28. Ruffin's career as wild animal trainer-performer as "Prince Bogino." Photos.

• Swan and Bates, A Giant Love Story, Steve DeGenaro, pp. 29-32. Martin Van Burne Bates, the "Kentucky Giant," and Anna Swan, the "Nova Scotia Giantess." Photos, illustrations.

• Thomas Barry, Hibernian Jester, Robert Loeffler, pp. 33-36. Barry was an old-time Irish jester and theatrical manager, 1847-1894. Photos, illustrations.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 37-38. Sells-Floto elephant department, Sparks circus parade 1910, Hoxie Circus 1937. Photos.

• Bill Kasiska's Letterheads, p. 39. P. T. Barnum letter with autographs of the Lilliputians Charles and Lavinia Stratton (Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb), Commodore Nutt, Minnie Warren.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Ringling Bros. 1918 courier.

May-June 2007, Vol. 51, No. 3

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1889 Adam Forepaugh Circus poster.

• Charles Sparks: Circus Wagon Buyer, Fred Dahlinger, Jr., pp. 3-19. Comprehensive information on the acquisition of wagons for the Sparks Circus, including how Sparks assembled his fleet of wagons, especially the parade vehicles.

• "Honest" John Kelley vs John Ringling, John M. Kelley, pp. 20-26.

• Johnny Patterson, The Rambler from Clare, Harry Bradshaw, pp. 27-32. Patterson was a popular singing clown circa 1860s - 1880s.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, p. 33. Robbins Bros. Circus spec Historic America. Jimmy Rossi, Rose Alexander

• Mysterious Mr. Kelty, The, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 34-39. Edward J. Kelty, circus photographer.

• Blood May be Thicker than Water but Flukem Was the Life Saver for Gentry Bros. Circus, Red Sonnenberg, pp. 40-47.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Adam Forepaugh Circus lithographs featuring Adam Forepaugh Jr.'s elephants.

March-April 2007, Vol. 51, No. 2

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1938 Ringling-Barnum program cover.

• 2006 Circus Year in Review, Fred D. Pfening Jr., pp. 3-25.

• Racism Was Ever Present for Pioneer Black Circus Performer, Lane Talburt, pp. 26-33. Career of Manuel "Junior" Ruffin, Clyde Beatty, Ringling, Ward Hall - Circus Side Show, Vargas side show. Illustrations include photos, program covers, ads.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, p. 34. Narrative and photos. Ira Watts - owner, manager, Parker & Watts Circus.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business - The Finale, Part Fifty, David W. Watt, pp. 35-43. Originally published 1919-1920. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1889 Buffalo Bill Wild West courier.

January-February 2007, Vol. 51, No. 1

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Howe's Great London 'Car of India.'

• 1944 Ringling Bros. Circus Diary, A, The Ralph Emersons., pp. 3-28. This was the year of the Hartford Fire.

• Chicken or the Egg: A Double Ring Controversey. Phase Two, William L. Slout, pp. 29-36. Great Eastern.

• Jumping Horses, Automobiles and Circuses, Sylvester Braun, pp. 37-38.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 39-40.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Nine, David W. Watt, pp. 41-47. Originally published 1920. David Watt died in 1929, includes Watt's obituaries with information on his career. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

November-December 2006, Vol. 50, No. 6

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Ringling songster 1888, featuring the Ringling brothers before they all grew their famous moustaches.

• Ringling-Barnum Gorillas and Their Cages, The, Fred D. Pfening, Jr. & Richard J. Reynolds III, pp. 4-29. Gargantua, Toto and other gorillas. Many photos of various gorillas with circuses, cage wagons, lithographs.

• More About Gorillas and Other Great Apes - Noell's Ark, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 33-36. The traveling Gorilla Show, of Bob and Anna Mae Noell, 1940-1971. Noell's Ark chimp farm. Illustrations include photos of Chimp Farm, gorilla Tommy.

• Ringling's Disastrous European Tour, Don Stacey, pp. 40-48. Reprinted from King Pole, September 2006. 1963-1964 tour. Details of the management and many performers of this short tour. Stacey was publicity manager for the show. Illustrations include photos of performers, spec floats, managers.

• "Russian Cossacks," Buffalo Bill's Press Agent Spins a Tale, Richard A. Georgian, pp. 50-55. An extract from Georgian's manuscript, Buffalo Bill's Deceit, the Cossack's Curse. Reveals the facts behind the riders, advertised as Russian Cossacks, but were actually Georgians from what is today the Republic of Georgia. These men and women performed in more than 50 wild west shows from 1892 to 1920. Illustrations include photos of the Cossacks, lithographs.

• Great Circus Clowns of the Past, pp. 56-57. From Pat Cashini's Blog, photos and narrative of famous circus clowns.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 59-61. Photos and narrative. Circus elephants and more.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Eight, David W. Watt, pp. 68-76. 1919. John Worland, Forepaugh, Ringling Bros., Little Alright, Burr Robbins, and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

• Letterhead From the Archives, p. 77. 1875 P. T. Barnum's Great Roman Hippodrome. The letterhead is the most elaborate piece of circus stationery known to exist up to that time.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Yankee Robinson, circa 1910, 'monster airship,' Santa Dumont, circling the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

• Fred Logan's Own Story, as told to Richard Mong, pp. 3-9. Logan described his entry into the circus. He became an animal trainer, performing lions, elephants, etc. He was with Terrell Jacobs, Harry Haag, Gilbert Bros., World of Mirth, Endy Bros., Perell's, Cole Bros., RBBB, Biller Bros., Miller Bros., Kelly-Miller, Beatty-Cole, George Carden. Information on these shows and the people and animals he worked with from about 1942 to 2006. Buckles Woodcock added his memories of Fred Logan. Illustrations include photos of Logan, program cover featuring Logan's lion act, Logan with various elephants, lions.

• The Oldest of Showmen, The career of Benjamin F. Brown of Somers, New York, Stuart Thayer, pp. 10-16. From 1823 to 1825, Brown traveled with one of the earliest elephants to reach America, put on shows in the first canvas circus tent used in the world, managed the eariest combination of a circus and menagerie, and traveled the Nile to capture giraffes in the Nubian Desert. In addition, he was the only American known to have lived in the Tower of London. Illustrations include a sketch of Brown on his trip to obtain giraffes (1839-40), advertisements from the 1820-30s, illustration of an early circus tent.

• En Route to the Great Eastern,, Part Four, William L. Slout, pp. 17-25. Season of 1872. The initial organization of the Great Eastern Menagerie, Museum, Aviary, Circus and Balloon Show by George W. DeHaven, Andrew Haight and R. E. J. Miles. Details of the show, performers and their acts, events encountered on its tour, opposition shows. Show traveled 9,404 miles, on the road from April to December. Illustrations include a Great Eastern herald, newspaper advertisements, posters of the elephant Conqueror and performer Emma Lake.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 26-27. Photos and narrative on the career of Walter McClain (ca 1917-1942), "the best elephant man the Ringling show ever had." McClain was also employed in Hollywood when the Barnes elephants appeared in epic and Tarzan movies.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Seven, David W. Watt, pp. 28-39. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series. 1919, includes Walter L. Main show, Forepaugh, Al G. Barnes John Robinson, Adam Forepaugh Jr., RBBB, Sells-Floto, Annie Oakley, boxer Jack Dempsey, Santos & Artigas, Buffalo Bill, RBBB advance, Burr Robbins, Hagenbeck-Wallace 1918 train wreck, Cole Bros., and more.
        Illustrations include photos of Walter L. Main, Al G. Barnes, Jack Dempsey, Robert Pinkerton, Egbert Howes; parade and advance car photos; Forepaugh letterhead; W. F. Carver illustration; Sells-Floto Jack Dempsey advertisement.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1924 Sparks Circus courier.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1893 lithograph, Sells brothers.

• Luella Forepaugh-Fish Wild West Show 1903, Richard A. Georgian, pp. 3-8. Luella Jordan married John A. Forepaugh, nephew of Adam Forepaugh, then married George F. Fish. In 1901 Luella and Fish incorporated the Forepaugh-Fish Wild West. Information on the show from 1901 to 1903. Georgian presented this paper at the 2006 CHS convention. It is part of his future publication on the history of the "Russian Cossacks" who rode in more than fifty American tent shows between 1892-1920s.
        Illustrations include photos of Alexis Georgian, the Georgian Cossacks, and Forepaugh-Fish steam calliope; engraving John A. Forepaugh; Forepaugh-Fish letterhead; newspaper advertisement.

• How and Why I Got in the Circus Business, King Bros. Circus, Part Two, Bob Snowden, pp. 9-27. How the Duke of Paducah Circus started and became the King Bros. Details of the 1961-64 truck show, including staff, performers, side show, concessions, elephants, etc.
        Illustrations include photos of King Bros. trucks, pit show, marquee and big top, cookhouse, side show, horse semi, Hermann's Lipizzan stallions, ticket semi, seat semi, elephant lead stock and sleeper truck, Snowden and employees, Arnold Maley & Snowden, Frank McClosky.

• Looking for Babe for Patsy Bea, Performer, Harington's Nickle Plate Circus (1932-1934), pp. 28-31. Known as Patsy Bea in the circus world, she was the grand daughter of Beatrice and Ernest Harrington, owners of Harrington's Nickle Plate. As a child in the circus, Patsy's favorite elephant was Babe. Information on Patsy's circus life. Illustrated with a photo of Patsy, age two or three.

• En Route to the Great Eastern, Part Three, William L. Slout, pp. 32-39. Details of Andrew Haight & Doc Chambers' circus, the first to take a circus into Texas after the Civil War. Information on the shows for the 1865-67 seasons, including performers, staff, side show, events. Andrew Haight was known for driving a close bargain and seldom getting the worst of a deal, which earned him the name "Slippery Elm." Details of Haight & Wooten's 1871 Empire City Circus. The Great Eastern was formed in 1872. Illustrations include engravings of Dr. James L. Thayer, John Hayes Murray and Sam Lathrop the clown, newspaper advertisements, a Stone & Murray 1870 lithograph.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 40-41. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos: elephants transporting a throne for the spec on RBBB in 1941, pit show, animal people on Robbins Bros. 1938, Kelly-Miller side show, Stewart Craven, Master Elephant Trainer.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Six (1919), David W. Watt, pp. 42-47. Information on Forepaugh; LaDell Brothers; Sam Watson, bareback rider and circus owner; Henry S. Rubien, had lemonade and candy stands on RBBB more than 20 years; Watt's career; Burr Robbins; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include Burr Robbins, James E. Cooper, Robert C. Campbell agent, Jeremiah Mabie, 1880s Forepaugh trading card featuring the 'Sultans own Sons of the Desert.' See May-June 1998 for information on the content of this series.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Glasier 1902 photo, daredevil Diavolo, loop-the-loop bicycle act.

• How and Why I Got in the Circus Business, Part One, How the Duke of Paducah Circus Started and How It Became King Bros., by Bob Snowden, pp. 3-23. Snowden was a circus and animal man who owned an interest in King Bros. Snowden's early career, including his alligator and hippo shows. His times with the Royal American carnival, including the back end business. The 1960 Duke of Paducah Circus.
        Illustrations: photos of Robert Snowden; Snowden's Florida animal farm; Gladys Gillem's wild animal act; Carl Sedimayr Jr. & Sr., Royal American owners; Whitey Weiss, consession manager; Royal American midway; Snowden hippo show; Floyd King; Si and Dorothy Rubens, phone promoters; Whitey Ford, the Duke of Paducah; Duke of Paducah semi; Beatrice Dante and chimp; Mario Gaona trapeze act; Walter Kernan; Roger Boyd; Matt Larish and the Duke elephants; Larish's liberty ponies; Duke of Paducah letterhead; Duke marquee and big top; Great Jessick, one finger stand; Duke midway and sideshow.

• En Route to the Great Eastern, Part Two, William L. Slout, pp. 24-33. Andrew Haight and George W. DeHaven 1865-70. Information on their shows, staff, performers, acts, events. Haight's early life. Description of the Mazeppa equestrian drama. Illustrations: Andrew Haight, George Batcheller leaper, William Dutton rider, R. E. J. Miles owner & proprietor, newspaper advertisements, Pike's Opera House and its 1866 fire.

• 2006 Circus Historical Society Convention, by Joe Parker, pp. 34-36. Photos of many of the presenters.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 37-38. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos: Tom Mix at Sells-Floto winter quarters, Peru, 1931; Hubert Castle (Hal Smith) 1947, did a wire act; Bert Nelson & Maria Rasputin, 1935, did an animal act; Barbara Woodcock in costume with elephant.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Five (1919), David W. Watt, pp. 39-47. Zip, the dog-faced man or "Barnum's What Is It;" Adam Forepaugh Jr.; Siegrist & Silbon, aerial act; Forepaugh; Watt's career; Bert Cole, announcer Hagenbeck-Wallace 19 seasons; RBBB; various performers/staff returning from WWI; Burr Robbins; Imre Kiralfy, producer of specs; Ike Pritchard; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, lithograph, illustrating Diavilo's "'Danger-Deriding, Death-Defying, Desperate Dare-Devil" loop the loop act - "beyond the tremendously terrible temerity and illimitable, inimitable intrepidity of Diavolo, no man may go."

Thumbnail of Front Cover, lithograph, Barnum & Bailey 1890, featuring the spec "Nero, or the Destruction of Rome, the return of the show from the winter tour in London 1889-90 and the special railroad excursions for people to travel to see the show from small towns.

• Circus Year in Review, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 3-27. Extensive review of the 2005 circuses. There were sixty circuses in operation in 2005. Extensively illustrated with photos and covers of shows' programs.

• En Route to the Great Eastern, Part One, William L. Slout, pp. 28-36. Origin of the Great Eastern Museum, Menagerie, Aviary, Circus & Balloon Show, George W. DeHaven, Andrew Haight and R. E. J. Miles, proprietors. DeHaven's early life and connection with various circuses 1858-1860s. Satterlee, Bell & Co., Hyatt & Co., Great Union and other circuses. Shows, staff, performers, events.
        Illustrations include engravings of W. W. Durand, contracting agent and John Glenroy, rider; photos of George W. DeHaven and clown Pete Conklin; newspaper advertisements.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 37-38. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos: breakfast on the 1946 Cole show, Busby Bros. bill car 1909, elephant trainer Chris Zeitz with elephant Mom 1905, Spot Griffin baggage stock superintendent 1931. 1944 Ringling-Barnum program featuring Ernestine Clarke.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Four (1919), David W. Watt, pp. 39-47. Watt's career; Hagenbeck winter quarters; Showmen's League of America; Sells-Floto; Hagenbeck Animal Circus in Germany; Ringling brothers and their show; Adam Forepaugh Jr.; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations are photos of ticket seller, Sells-Floto 1915; West Baden Hotel and Casino; Will Rogers in vaudeville; Sells-Floto winter quarters; Hagenbeck Tierpart entrance; Ringling family 1890s; Yankee Robinson parade 1919; May Wirth; Zip, the "What is it." See May-June 1998 for information on the content of this series.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, lithograph, W. C. Coup's New United Monster Shows, featured New York Aquarium, Broncho Horses, Royal Japanese Circus, Melville's Australian Circus, Colvin's Great Menagerie, Fryer's Trained Animas and Wood's Museum. The show toured 1878-1882.

• Spader Johnson, A Survey of the Famous Clown's Career, Tom Parkinson, pp. 3-12. Spader Johnson, real name William Brown. Early life, with escapades. On minstrel shows 1879-1889. With Sells Bros., Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Bros., RBBB. Career of his wife, Minnie Johnson. His life after retirement from the circus. Information on clowns and clowning. Spader was a clown leaper, Roman standing rider, may have introduced the clown firehouse production number, noted for his act geared to African-Americans customers in the segregated South, lead a clown band.
        Illustrations include photos of Spader in 1895, 1905, 1921; his production with fellow clowns dressed as elephants; his clown band; 1917 Ringling clowns; Johnson with his "Brainstorm" auto 1910; Johnson in a make-up variation; Slivers Oakley, Johnson's biggest rival; Johnson and wife; daughter Minnie Johnson in riding costume; Haverly's Minstrels lithograph.

• Tommy Hanneford, A Lifetime of Circus, Greg Parkinson, pp. 13-17. Hanneford (1927-2005) entertained audiences for seven decades. He performed in the ring for more than a half century. Produced and owned shows for 40 years.
        Illustrations include photos of Tommy in 1955; Kay Frances and George Hanneford on pyramid with Tommy and George Jr. 1948; Tommy with George Jr. & Sr. 1941; Hanneford four-horse pyramid mid-1960s; Tommy & George 1944; Tommy & Kay, Cole Bros. 1949; Hanneford backback act 1943; Tommy's comic riding 1970s; George Hanneford family riding act 1949; Hannefords circa 1952; Tommy & Struppi 1963, 2005; Tommy & Nellie 2004.

• The Great Jacksonville Circus Fight, Joe O. Parker, pp. 18-21. Paper presented at the 2005 CHS convention. The story of the "Great Circus Fight" at Jacksonville, Texas in 1872. A story featuring a gunfight, a hairbreath escape, the U.S. Cavalry, riot, assualt and the John Robinson circus. Relates three different versions of the tale, from three varied viewpoints. Illustrations include photos of John Robinson; Gil Robinson; Gil Robinson in the ticket wagon 1972; engraving of bird's-eye view of John Robinson's show.

• Those Riding Rieffenachs, John Daniel Draper, pp. 22-28. The equestrian acts of the Mitzirose Troupe, Maria and Rose Rieffenach, on RBBB 1922-1937. Rieffenach family performers. Illustrations include photos of the Rieffenachs 1925; Tieffenach troupe 1926, Clarence and Vera Bruce 1925; Clarence Bruce and Rose Rieffenach on their wedding day, Rose in bridal gown on horse; Rose and Mitzi 1937; Clarence Bruce and three Rieffenach sisters 1939; Rose and Mitzie performing; family on Cole Bros. 1941 and 1942; lithographs of Rieffenach sisters.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 29-31. Photos and explanatory narrative. Sells-Floto 1913; Everett James & family, bandleader, Mighty Haag, including baby Hary James; 1946 Cole Bros. train wreck; LaMont Bros. 1904; Woodcock's father training elephant Anna May to roll a globe, winter 1949-40.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Three (1918), David W. Watt, pp. 32-43. Unloading and putting up the big show; Ringling show; May Wirth; Forepaugh; Siegrist & Silbon aerial act; Edwin Hanneford clown equestrian; Ringling Bros. plans for 1919; Uncle John Robinson; Hagenbeck-Wallace; F. T. Corcoran's plans for a wild west show to go to France; movie "Under the Top;" Oscar Lowande, equestrian director; Hagenbeck circus during WWI; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1905 Barnum & Bailey courier, Realm of Marvels.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Buffalo Bill Christmas card, 1903-06

• Out of the Wild West Thundered the First Circus Train of Steel, Part One, Fred Dahlinger, Jr., pp. 4-35. Story of the showmen and events that led to the frist steel circus train that rumbled across America. Starts with the formation of the first Wild West exhibition, through transitions between partners, continues during changes in circus leadership and finally takes place during the rise of the largest Wild West outfit to tour America.
        Illustrations include photos of Hagenbeck-Wallace Forepaugh Sells, 1935; Campbell Bros.; Col. William F. Cody, 1907; Col John M. Burke, business manager; Nate Salsbury; Buffalo Bill advance car, 1896; RR cars & elephants, Bridgeport winter quarters; James A. Bailey; Jule Keen, treasurer; flats, 1908 Barnum & Bailey; horse that smoked; Buffalo Bill flat cars, 1901; Buffalo Bill; U.S. Army train, ca 1905; Col. Cody & Nate Salsbury; Mr. & Mrs. William F. Cody; Barnum & Bailey train in Europe; Buffalo Bill, Paris, France 1905; Buffalo Bill advertising car 1905; Buffalo Bill train, Italy, 1905. Lithograph, RBBB, early 1920s; 1914 Jones Bros. & Wilson herald; 1933 Hagenbeck-Wallace lithograph.

• The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie, William L. Slout, pp. 38-42. (Pardon A. Older). Paper presented at 2005 CHS convention. The origin, 1872 season and demise of Pardon A. Older and J. M. Chandler's Trans-Atlantic. Show details, staff, performers, events. Illustrations include photos of Pardon A. Older & agent John A. Dingess; newspaper advertisements.

• Delight For Shogun, Gift From Nehru: History of Traveling Menageries of Japan, Ken Kawata, pp. 44-53. Paper presented at 2005 CHS convention. A review of the highlights of the menageries in the history of animal exhibition in Japan. Iwata Yano's turn-of-the-century traveling menagerie. Hagenbeck's tour of Japan. The Ueno Zoo's traveling menageries. World Animal Expo (Nippon Zoo) and circus-related operations in 1950s. Illustrations include postcards of various menagerie animals; elephant Anna; photos of Yano, Ueno Zoo's menagerie, elephant Indira, lion trainer Dick Clemens.

• Corteo Cirque Du Soleil, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 58-61. Details of 2005 season. Illustrations include photos of the Corteo lot, horizontal bar act, trampoline and aerial chandelier act.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 63-65. Photos and explanatory narrative. R. Z. Orton show history, and more. Photos: elephant Hero with Jim Baker, owner R. Z. Orton, and agent Dave Jarrett; Zebra hitch, Cole Bros. 1944; RBBB elephant howdah, 1933; 1961 Kelly-Miller 'doniker' trailer; elephant Tusko, 1921 & 1930.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Two (1918), David W. Watt, pp. 69-78. Lizzie Ashton & Kate Silbon, aerial artists; Sunday runs; Pubillones circus, Cuba; Forepaugh; Keith & Albee, vaudeville; RBBB; Burr Robbins; and more. See May-June 1998 for information on the content of this series. Note: July-August 2005 also titles Watt's Side Lights as Part Forty-Two. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1881 Adam Forepaugh lithograph featuring the "Handsomest Woman in the World, Lalla Rookh."

• Lalla Rookh: The Poem, the Pachyderms, and the Pulchritude, Stuart Thayer, pp. 3-5. Paper presented at 2005 CHS convention. Based on the popular Thomas Moore 1817 poem. Elephants Lalla Rookh - Dan Rice's 1854; Thayer & Noyes' 1867; Forepaugh's 1871. "Lalla Rookh" 1871 Grand Entree pageant. Forepaugh's 1881 "Handsomest Woman" beauty contest and winner's exhibition in a recreation of "Lalla Rookh's Departure from Delhi."
        Illustrations include Lalla Rookh illustration from Moore's book; Lalla Rookh illustration, Dan Rice, 1859; elephant Lalla Rookh on tight rope, Dan Rice show; 1882 Forepaugh Lalla Rookh poster; "Handsomest Woman," Louise Montague photo; 1889 Forepaugh lithograph, Veiled Prophet; 1915 lithograph, Barnum & Bailey Lalla Rookh pageant.

• The Ups and Downs of George Washington Smith, Part Two, Robert J. Loeffler, pp. 6-13. Ringling circus manager, convicted of manslaughter after the 1944 Hartford fire. Details on his conviction, the fire, and his career after his release from prison.
        Illustrations include photos of James A. Haley, Ringling-Barnum Vice President; Leonard Aylesworth, boss canvasman; Pat Valdo, Robert Ringling, George Smith; Mrs. Aubrey Ringling Haley; Robert Ringling; Harry Hammill, Dailey Bros. owner & Ben Davenport; George Smith & wife 1951.

• How can we help you?, Rev. George "Jerry" Hogan, pp. 14-16. Paper presented at 2005 CHS convention. Information on the church in the U.S. and circus and traveling show people. Illustrations include photos of Rev. Hogan; Jon Weiss (RB-Blue); Nellie Hanneford.

• The Romance of Ranch Life, Fred D. Pfening, pp. 17-20. Pfening's grandfather's account of the rough-and-tumble life working at the Miller brothers 101 Ranch in 1908. Illustrations include photos of Fred Pfening, Sr.; George L. Miller; panoramic view of the 101 Ranch; Miller Bros. postcards and letterhead.

• The Barnum & Bailey Circus Fire in 1910, Will W. Brock, pp. 21-23. Will Brock is a CHS member who was employed by Barnum & Bailey when this fire occurred. In addition to information on the fire and show, there are many photos of the fire.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 24-25. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos: 1951 Woodcock with Cheerful Gardner, elephant trainer; Sparks show midway with sideshow; Woodcock's grandfather, R. Z. Orton & family, Orton Bros.; Arky Scott, animal trainer; Ringling-Barnum elephants circa 1940.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-One (1918), David W. Watt, pp. 27-38. Al G. Barnes & his animal show; Forepaugh; Watt's career; circus performers serving in WWI; effect of WWI on circuses; Barnum & Bailey; Ringling family; 1918 epidemic and quarantine that drove many circuses into Winter Quarters.
        Illustrations include photos of Al G. Barnes elephant herd; the Hobsons, bareback riders; the Siegrist-Silbons, flying act; Ringling-Barnum elephant herd circa 1920; Henry Ringling; lithograph, Al G. Barnes; Hagenbeck-Wallace advertisement. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series. Note: May-June 2005 issue also titles Watt's Side Lights as Part Forty-One.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1922 Ringling-Barnum courier

Thumbnail of Front Cover, L. B. Lent's New York Circus, 1870.

• Ups and Downs of George Washington Smith, Part One, Robert J. Loeffler, pp. 4-20. George W. Smith, 1893-1986, became circus manager, Ringling Bros. in 1938. Includes text of his testimony regarding the Hartford fire, Smith's early career.
        Illustrations include photos of Smith; Ringling-Barnum ticket wagon; Ringling billstand; Ringling-Barnes show on a lot 1938; Arthur Concello; 1942 Army War Show; Robert Ringling; Ringling staff in court; Emmett Kelly fighting the fire; Hartford fire scenes; diagram of big top and lot layout at Hartford.

• More Ramblings From Red Sonnerberg, Part Three, C. A. "Red" Sonnenberg, pp. 21-28. RBBB, Walter L. Main, M. L. Clark shows, grift and much more. Illustrations include photos of Ringling-Barnum rest room; entrance to Ringling-Barnum winter quarters; Walter L. Main ticket wagon, 1927; Al G. Barnes circus train, 1924; W.P.A. Circus show band; Lee Bros. bill stand 1925; Walter L. Main advertising car, 1927; Waldo Tupper, agent GSOE; Frank McClosky, Willis Lawson and Art Concello planning a route.

• A Very Strong Finish, pp. 29-31. 2005 CHS convention. Photos of many of the presenters; Cirque Du Soleil; Kelly-Miller elephants.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 33-35. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos of the Cole Bros. train wreck 1945; Gentry Bros. animal act; 1933 Al G. Barnes circus train, stake driver, spreading out the big top canvas; George Denman, Ringling-Barnum elephant boss.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-Two (1918), David W. Watt, pp. 36-46. John "Mulsey" Welch; J. H. Shields; effect of WWI on circuses; Forepaugh; Watt's career; Hagenbeck-Wallace train wreck 1918; Forepaugh 1886 train wreck; George Washington Hall; and more.
        Illustrations include photo of William "Bud" Gorman; mass grave, Hagenbeck-Wallace train wreck; G. W. Hall parade wagon; Jules Turnour, clown; Lou Graham; Hagenbeck-Wallace advertisement; Sells Bros. winter quarters lithograph; Ringling Bros. 1918 spec lithograph; Ringling Bros. woodchoppers 1918 lithograph. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

• Jumbo Picture Cards, p. 47. Illustrations of Jumbo on trade cards promoting sewing machines, furniture, etc.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1934 Hagenbeck-Wallace

• Who Was Buffalo Bill? An Overview of His Life and Times. John Thiele, pp. 3-8. Paper presented at CHS 2004 convention. Illustrations include photos; 1887 portraits of Cody; Buffalo Bill Wild West poster; Cody lithograph used in England.

• Inside the LaMont Shows, Lawrence Lusch, pp. 9-14. Owned by Charles and Harry Randolph, LaMont Bros. Circus 1902-1920s. Show details, staff, performers, events. Illustrations include photos of Charles & Harry Randolph; show on lot ca 1912-14; tableau bandwagon, calliope wagon, animal cage wagon 1914; LaMont band; Omar Eddings & elephant Wando; ticket wagon, 1918 bill stand. 1910 letterhead; newspaper advertisement; herald.

• The Ubangis Are Alive and Well, Dick Mong, pp. 15-20. African natives on Ringling-Barnum 1930-31. Author Mong traveled to Ethiopia to meet the Mursi, who traveled with Ringling-Barnum. His journal of the trip is included in the article. Illustrations include many photos of the Ubangis, posters, and Mong's trip.

• The Meers Sisters and William Melrose, John Daniel Draper, pp. 21-25. Equestrians who performed for three decades beginning in 1891. Featured on Barnum & Bailey in 1891. Illustrations include photos, 1907, 1911; 1895, 1906 lithographs; 1910 Meers illustration, Forepaugh-Sells.

• Cole's Southern Circus and Menagerie of 1881, Stuart Thayer, p. 26. Show had a short life, two months. Organized by George S. Cole, Matt Leland and William Monroe. Illustrations include show lithographs.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 27-29. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos: Louie Reed on Brama bull, taking elephants to the lot; William "Lucky Bill" Newton Sr.; Woodcock's father and Lee Powell at the site of Jumbo's death; Arky Scott with elephants; elephants Marcella and Big Babe with Ringling-Barnum, 1951.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty-One, David W. Watt (1918), pp. 30-39. Watt's career; Burr Robbins; Forepaugh; Gollmars; Ringling show; W. C. Coup; James A. Bailey; Bird Millman, tightrope walker; effect of WWI on circuses; John L. Sullivan, champion boxer; Col George W. Hall.
        Illustrations include photos of Charles & Fred Gollmar; W. C. Coup; clown Earl Shipley; George W. "Popcorn" Hall; Tom Buckley, Ringling treasurer; Bird Millman 1918 poster; 1918 Hagenbeck-Wallace program cover; illustration of John L. Sullivan, boxer; postcard, Barnum & Bailey Bridgeport winter quarters. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Judith Nerger and Caesar, Hamid Circus, 2004.

• Circus Year in Review, the 2004 season, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 4-28. Pfening's annual review of 2004 circuses, accompanied by many photographs, 2004 programs, posters, kid tickets. Photos of shows on the lots, performers, staff, wagon, lithograph.

• Whistles and Walk-A-Rounds. Where Have They Gone?, Robert Sugarman, pp. 29-32. Changes in the roles of the Clowns and the the Ringmasters and/or Equestrian Directors. Illustrations include photos of Fred Bradna, ringmaster; Tim Holst, RBBB Vice President; clown Bello Nock and ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson; clown David Larible; clown Ryan Combs; clown Molly Pelley.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 33-34. Photos and explanatory narrative. Photos: Jimmy Reynolds & Eddie Allen, animal men; Jimmy with his seal act; Rex Williams working the elephant act on horseback.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Forty (1918), David W. Watt, pp. 36-47. Forepaugh; Watt's career; Shipp & Feltus circus; WWI and the circuses; John L. Sullivan, champion boxer; William O'Dale; Ben Lusbie, lightning ticket seller; James A. Bailey; Homer Martin, ticket seller; Barnum & Bailey; Ringling show; freaks.
        Illustrations include photos of Barnum & Bailey cookhouse in Germany; clown Jack LeClair; U. S. Motorized tableau truck; Barnum & Bailey winter quarters, Bridgeport; Tom Thumb's carriage; Jo-Jo, dog-faced boy; elephants at Ringling winter quarters, Baraboo; early Forepaugh lithograph, the Golden Image Car; Shipp & Feltus letterhead; engraving, Ben Lusbie; Chang and Eng, Siamese Twins. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1891 Pawnee Bill lithograph.

• The Grand Parade of Pawnee Bill's Wild West, Fred Dahlinger, Jr., pp. 3-21. Dahlinger traces the history of the innovative parade of the Pawnee Bill show in the early 1900s, with detailed descriptions of the wagons and parade.
        Illustrations include many photos of the wagons; the ethnological Filipino ox cart; Nellie Oram, on of the few female steam callipoe players; Ernest Haag, showman; Haag show personnel; 1884 Buffalo Bill parade; Mighty Haag lithograph featuring six wagons; 1914 Reynolds Beal painting of a steam calliope; 1907 parade illustration, Pawnee Bill courier; Pawnee Bill lithograph.

• Beasts and Ballyhoo, The Menagerie Men of Somers, Terry Ariano, pp. 23-30. Paper presented at CHS 2005 convention. Early menageries in America. Hachaliah Bailey, J. Purdy Brown, Wright brothers,, Gerard Crane, Lewis Lent, and others. The Elephant Hotel, Somers, NY.
        Illustrations include photos of Hachaliah Bailey's home, Elephant Hotel, circa 1880; portraits of Hachaliah Bailey and Lewis Lent; Van Amburgh lithograph, G. F. Bailey menagerie lithograph; early advertisements, handbills, heralds and broadsides.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Photo Album, pp. 31-33. Photos and explanatory narrative. Eddie Allen, elephant man; Eddie and the "Changing of the Guard" elephant number; Claude "Silvers" Madison with Clyde Beatty elephant herd, circa 1947-48; Hugo Schmidt practicing his elephant act; Ed Healy and Benny White, worked elephant acts on Ringling, 1957.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Nine (1917), David W. Watt, pp. 34-43. Forepaugh; circus life; Van Amburgh early 1870s; C. N. Thompson, showman; and more.
        Illustrations include photos of Forepaugh's Cleopatra Barge; Five Graces bandwagon; Edward P. Norwood, press agent; Charles Andress; Rhoda Royal; Sells-Floto winter quarters, Denver; A. G. Fields, minstrel man; May Wirth. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Pawnee Bill.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Christmas card, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, 1943

• The Circus Magazine, an enigma whose time had come, Robert F. Sabia, pp. 4-21. In-depth information on circus programs and songsters from a tabloid format to magazine, circa 1884 - 1900s.
        Illustrations include many program covers - Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill, Campbell Bros., Howes Great London, Downie Bros., Walter L. Main, Scott Greater Shows, Cole Bros. Circuses' pages in Circus Magazine - Zellmar Bros., Barnett Bros., Conroy Bros., Robbins, and Johnny J. Jones carnival. Photo of Lewis Bros. 1937 band.

• Reminiscences of Circus Animal Trainers, John Daniel Draper, pp. 25-44. John Hardin Smith, Mahlon Frank "Alabama" Campbell, Merritt Lynn Belew, Austin B. King, Alvin Ray Thompson, Max Sabel, Bert B. Dennis, Charles Barry and Bessie Harvey, Fred and Rose Collier, James and Alice Foster, Allan Hauser, Leo and Ethel Hamilton, Harry J. and Josephine McFarlan.
        Illustrations include photos of John Smith, 1924, 1943; Mahlon Frank "Alabama" Campbell; Merritt Belew, 1923, 1945, undated; Minnie Thompson, menage rider; Ray & Dorothy Thompson, mid-1920s; Dorothy Herbert, rider, 1934; Max Sabel, 1924; Fred Collier & liberty horses, 1923; James & Alice Foster; LaVerne Hauser; Harry McFarlan, 1933, 1943; Josephine McFarland; boxing horses lithograph, 1944; lithograph featuring Ray Thompson, 1908; illustration of Bessie Haravey, lady rider; 1933 lithograph featuring Capt. Barry.

• Almost fifty years under the big top - But still only fifty feet ahead of the sheriff, Part Two, C. A. "Red" Sonnenberg, pp. 48-55. Some subtitles: Gordon Calvit Fixer Deluxe, How to get to Portland, Oregon on four bucks, Ode to Frank Branden, Trouping During the Great Depression, Paydays Aren't Everything, Sounds around a circus, Judge Duval, Circus people had a language of their own, Don't forget your Dukies, Windy Van Hooten and the ferocious lions.
        Illustrations include photos of Gordon Calvit, fixer; Buck Jones, 1927; Hugo Schmitt & elephants; Sam B. Dill, manager & owner; Frank Braden, press agent; Frederic "Babe" Boudinot, general agent; Herbert Duval, The Judge, legal adjuster; Ringling-Barnum cookhouse, 1955; Edward F. Kelly, Ringling-Barnum Vice President.

• Bill Woodcock's Circus Album, pp. 59-61. To be an ongoing feature. William H. Woodcock's circus heritage goes back to the mid 1800s, his father's passions were elephants and circus history. Article includes photos and short essays that continue Woodcock, Sr.'s contributions of photographs in Bandwagon that were published from 1958-1963. Photos: elephant trucks; Pat Valdo, Walter McClain, Evelyn Burns, Dianne Lovette, Patty Pallee, Barnes 1938; Alonzo Dever doing a head carry; Sells-Floto on muddy lot.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Eight (1917), David W. Watt, pp. 65-75. Forepaugh, John Robinson Show, Burr Robbins, May Wirth, circuses 1917-18, Barnum & Bailey, Ringling, Rhoda Royal, and many more people, circuses, and circus history/life. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of John Robinson lithographers; May Wirth, rider; George W. Goodhart, advance manager; Charles A. Gollmar; Frank P. Spellman, manager; Samuel H. McCracken, manager & owner; R. T. Richards elephants; Burr Robbins trading card; Barnum & Bailey 1917 route card; United States Circus Corporation letterhead, 1917.

• Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Ticket Wagons in the 1930s, p. 76. Photos of the ornate ticket wagons, 1931-33, 1935, 1937-38.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Clyde Beatty lot, 1956
• The Blue Unit Train, The First Twenty Years, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Robert S. MacDougall, pp. 3-21. History of the railroad equipment used by the Ringling-Barnum Blue Unit from its beginning in 1969.
        Illustrations include photos of unloading European unit; 20th Century Limited train cars purchased by Ringling-Barnum; Ringling-Barnum European unit wagon; postal car ready to pick up Circus Williams animals; 1971 wagons; Father Sullivan christening the train; 1971 all white train; Bicentennial Edition lettering on 1975-76 Red Unit; Blue Unit car on fire, 1974; Robert S. MacDougall, general manager; polar bear cages; Hickory Creek car, 1977; laundry car; John Roushe & Bob MacDougall, Monte Carlo sleeper; digging out from 20 inch snowfall, 1980; derailed cars, 1981; Blue Unit flats, 1982; container of elephants loading for Japan; vestibule car under construction; building concession storage car; numbering on car.

• From Rags to Ricketts, The Roots of Circus in Early Gotham, William L. Slout, pp. 22-27. Paper presented at CHS 2004 convention. Chronological history of early exhibitions in New York City, 1732-1798. Illustrations include handbill for camel exhibition, 1787; Vauxhall Garden; Jacob Bates, equestrian; John B. Ricketts; 1786 newspaper advertisement, Mr. Pool, feats of horsemanship; 1795 Ricketts' New Amphitheatre advertisement; Ricketts New Circus advertisement, 1797.

• Lotus Grande Dame of Circus Hippos, Richard J. Reynolds III, pp. 28-32. The famous Lotus arrived in America in 1903 and toured until 1944. She appeared in the 1952 movie, The Greatest Show on Earth,. Illustrations include many photos of Lotus, 1905 to 1939; Gollmar Bros. 1903 advertisement featuring Lotus, "A Blood-Sweating Hippopotamus;" Lotus' cage wagon, 1937.

• Bobby Gibbs, Good Bye, Old Friend, Jim Alexander, pp. 33-34. Robert Eugene "Bobby" Gibbs, animal performer and trainer, 1950s to 1998. Illustrations include photos of Bobby & Rosa Gibbs with elephant act; Bobby, 1983 Carson & Barnes spec.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Seven, David W. Watt, pp. 35-43. Zip "What is it?", Jace Robbins, James Jordan, Barnum & Bailey, Forepaugh, Fred O'Brien, and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Zip, the "What Is It?"; 1917 tableau parade wagon; Jess Willard, champion boxer & circus owner; eighteen horse hitch, Hagenbeck-Wallace, 1917; Fred O'Brien, acrobat & leaper; H. B. Gentry; Emil Schweyer, wild animal trainer; cover, Kiralfy Fall of Babylon spec.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1882 Nathans & Colvin, Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe tableau car. Nathan's Cosmopolitan Circus, Fryer's Dog and Pony Circus, Colvin's Great Menagerie, Jukes' Automatic Museum, Miaco's Humpty Dumpty.
• Montgomery Queen, Short Term Circus King, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 3-14. Queen's entry into the circus began with the 1873 season with the show titled Montgomery Queen's Great European Menagerie, Transatlantic Circus, Roman Hippodrome, and Troupe of Bedouin Arabs, Queen & Forepaugh, co-owners. Details of Queen's shows, staff, performers, equipment, events from 1873 to 1877.
        Illustrations include photos of Nat Austin, clown; Mollie Brown, child rider; Eagle tableau; engraving, Montgomery Queen; drawing, 1873 bandwagon; newspaper advertisement; drawing of Mollie Brown, 1875; cage drawing 1876; Great Pacific bandwagon drawing; drawing of rider Sig Quaglieni, 1876; trading cards of Mollie Brown, Madam Tournaire, riders; cover, 1875 Queen courier; illustration of Madam Louise Brown's horses; illustration of wild animal trainer Prof. Pierce; illustration of four horse rider Abelardo Lowanda; 1876 cage drawings; Queen lithograph featuring plumaged birds; 1876-77 overprinted Queen courier; Triumph of Liberty tableau; Queen lithograph featuring a scene in Africa; Queen lithograph featuring Mathews Bros. & M'lle Loretto, trapeze; letterhead.

• The Wallett Family of Principal Riders, John Daniel Draper, pp. 15-19. This family of riders performed in England and America from before 1850 to circa 1938. Details of their performances, shows they performed on, and other aspects of their careers. Illustrations include 1928 and 1934 photos; 1913 poster featuring the Wallet Family; and illustration of William Frederic Wallett (1808-92), English clown.

• Almost fifty years under the big top - But still only fifty feet ahead of the sheriff, Part One, C. A. "Red" Sonnenberg, pp. 20-28. Sections headings include: Never Smarten Up A Sucker, Claming the Big Wind, Circus Fixers (legal adjusters), Circuses Do Change, The Velvet Ass Kid From Old Vermont, The scratch of the circus seems to have a charmed life, The Cook's Tour of Russell Bros. Pan Pacific Circus, The Unsinkable Floyd King, A Night Letter, and The Lucky Boys, Candy Butchers, and Ticket Sellers were a very versatile bunch of showmen. The articles were written in the language of the grift circus, the circus lots after WWI. Outwardly, Red Sonnenberg played the role of a show bum, underneath he was a kind-hearted understanding man, with great warmth and love. His career began circa 1920. After he retired he recorded his experiences with circus people.
        Illustrations include photos of Red, 1972; Sells-Floto at Chicago Coliseum; Zack Terrell, manager and owner; Fred Buchanan, owner; Noyelles Burkhart, fixer and manager; back yard of Buck Jones Wild West; Jack Tavlin, owner; Jack Tavlin's pie car; Floyd King; Cole Bros. wagons on flats, 1929; 1944 ticket wagon, Clyde Beatty-Russell Bros.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Six, David W. Watt, pp. 29-38. Ringlings, John McDermott, John McLaughlin, Rose Wallace, Forepaugh, Great Indian Circus (India), Patterson & Gollmar, Barnum & Bailey, and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Al Ringling Theater, Baraboo; Kit (Christopher) Carson; Ringling winter quarters wardrobe department and costume designers; 1912 Barnum & Bailey baseball team; Barnum & Bailey ladies Red Cross committe, 1917; John Patterson, carnival & circus owner; May Wirth, rider; Charles Hutchinson, Barnum & Bailey treasurer; Eddie Silbon, trapeze performer.

• 2004 Circus Historical Society Convention, Dave Price, pp. 39-42. Narrative of convention highlights and many photos of presenters. Photo page of Coney Island and Cole Bros. Circus.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Barnum & Bailey pageant, Lalla Rookh

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Baby Jennie, Carson & Barnes
• Kansas City Circus Wagon Saga, Fred Dahlinger, Jr., pp. 3-17. Beggs Wagon Company, circus wagon history.
        Illustrations include photos of the Beggs wagon factory in Creston, Iowa; S. M. Beggs in the office, 1909; Beggs factory, Kansas City, 1908; fabricating wheels, wheel shop, 1909; Beggs calliope truck, 1920; closed baggage wagon, 1908; Beggs baggage wagons, 1911; ticket wagon, 1908; Elstun Bros. combination wagon; bandwagon, 1915; vaudeville truck wagon, 1922; Sherman "Trader" Horne, Hornes's Zoological Arena Co.; World Jungle Compound, Thousand Oaks; bandwagon, 1922 Christy Bros. with young Harry James; Eschman tableau in Mickey Mouse parade, 1955; illustration of Johnny Eschman; illustration of E. P. Horne; letterheads, advertisements.

• Strong Women and Crossed-Dressed Men: Representation of Gender by Circus Performers During the Golden Age of the American Circus, 1860-1930, Marcy W. Murray, pp. 18-23. Illustrations include photos of Eugen Sandow, strongman; Kate Sandwina; Charmion; Madam Yucca; Albert Hodgini as Miss Daisy; Herbert (Berta) Beeson; Clyde Vander (Barbette); lithograph featuring Louis Cyr, strongman; lithograph featuring Kate Sandwina, poster of 1905 Kate's act; lithograph featuring Madam Yucca; LuLu lithograph; illustration of Julian Eltinge; illustration of Ella Zoyara.

• Lew Graham, Circus Side Show Manager and Big Top Announcer, Robert J. Loeffler, pp. 24-27. Biographical information on Graham, information on managing a circus sideshow. Illustrations include photos of Lew Graham, 1907, 1908, 1913, undated.

• Half A Century Under the Big Top, Part Two, R. M. Harvey, pp. 28-36. Information written by Harvey from his memories of his years in the circus business. Some of the articles are not historically correct. Sections include: Strange facts about James Bailey and his 40-horse team publicty; Watching circus amazes some big city newsmen; Circus forced to made shady deals with officials; Prominent people did enjoy vacation with a big circus; Lions, tigers compete over animal title "King of Beasts;" Boston Mayor loved circuses.
        Illustrations include photos of James A. Bailey; Barnum & Bailey forty-horse hitch; William Howard Taft, President; Benjamin E. Wallace, showman; George Ade, humorist & lecturer; jungle-bred lions; James Michael Curley, Rascal Mayor of Boston; R. M. Harvey, contracting agent; advertisement, license contract.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Five (1917), David W. Watt, pp. 37-47. Charles Seeley, Lulu Davenport, George Melville, William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), Josie DeMott, Forepaugh, and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of LuLu Davenport, rider; George Melville, bareback rider; burial of Buffalo Bill; Peter Conklin, clown; Josie DeMott, rider; Clarence A. Wortham, carnival owner; illustration of Adam Forepaugh; lithograph featuring Jess Willard, boxer; illustration of George Orrin, Cuban circus; Robbins & Colvin lithograph featuring Durham Bulls act.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Coop & Lent courier, 1916

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Catalina Leibel, Leibling Bros.
• Circus Year in Review - 2003 Season, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 3-20. Details on circuses in 2003. Many photos of shows, performers; program covers, children's discount tickets.

• Travels of the Showman Perry G. Lowery, Clifford Edward Watkins, pp. 22-26. Paper presented at CHS 2003 convention. Lowery was a gifted African-American musician with the circus 1900-1940s. Illustrations include photos of Perry George Lowery; 1907 Lowery band; P. G. Lowery & Co. early 1920s; Lowery band and minstrels on RBBB; Lowery band on Asia bandwagon, 1936; Lowery group on Cole Bros., 1942.

• Wild Animal Trainers, p. 27. Photos of John "Tarzan" Zerbini, Terrell Jacobs, Alfred Court, Robert MacPherson, Prof. George Keller, Blackaman.

• Jack Joyce, Two Generations, John Daniel Draper, pp. 28-34. John Edward Joyce, 1876-1934, and John James Joyce, 1910-1978 and other Joyce family. Horsemanship and animal training.
        Illustrations include photos of John James "Jack" Joyce Jr.; Joyce Sr. with liberty horses; Jack Joyce at winter quarters, 1935; Jack Joyce, 1935; Martha Large Joyce, 1933; Jack Joyce, Harry Rooks, Rudy Rudynoff with liberty horses, 1935; Jack Joyce with seal act, 1938; Jack Joyce with camel group; Joyce's Jungle Carnival, 1958; Joyce with liberty horse act; Joyce mixed exotic animal act.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Four (1917), David W. Watt, pp. 36-47. James Robinson, Nate Salsbury, Tony Denier, Forepaugh, and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Tony Pastor, theater owner; John G. Robinson; Willard Douglas Coxey, press agent; clown band, Patterson-Gollmar, 1917; May Wirth, rider; herald featuring James Robinson, bareback rider; illustration of Nate Salsbury; Jess Willard; Ben Lusbie, lightning ticket seller.

  
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Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1941 Old King Cole and Mother Goose spec, Ringling-Barnum
• Spec-ology of the Circus, Part Two, Fred D. Pfening, Jr. pp. 3-21. History of the circus Spectacle, 1918 to recent years, many photos, lithographs, illustrations, descriptions. read this article online!

• Willie O'Dale and Willie O'Dell, John Daniel Draper, pp. 22-25. Biographical information on these two equestrian riders and their performances. Also the unrelated Charles O'Dell and Cyse O'Dell. Illustrations include photos of Cyse O'Dell, 1924, 1924, 1930s; newspaper advertisement featuring Wm. O'Dell; lithograph featuring Willie O'Dell, 1888.

• Interesting Bill Stands, pp. 26-27. Photos of the large bill stands for Mighty Haag, Sells, Forepaugh, Robinson's, Seils-Sterling, Downie & Wheeler, John H. Sparks. An interesting photo of an electric trolley totally wrapped with posters for the 101 Ranch.

• Half a Century Under the Big Top, R. M. Harvey, pp. 28-32. Robert M. Harvey's fifty year career as a circus executive, personal memories, early to mid 1900s. The "Flying Squadron" trouble shooters (the advance). Troubles of bareback riders rivalry in choice of costume. A very embarrassing moment while visiting a Cuban circus. Illustrations include photos of R. M. Harvey; 1902 Great Wallace bill stands; Blanche Reed, rider.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Three, David W. Watt, pp. 33-43. Buffalo Bill (W. F. Cody), Forepaugh, George F. Holland, James Robinson, Nate Salsbury, and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Buffalo Bill; Al G. Barnes, showman; U.S. Motorized Circus trucks; Richard Ringling's circus; Billy Lorette, clown; George Holland Jr., rider; John Philip Sousa; James Robinson; Nate Salsbury; illustration of Adam Forepaugh, Jr. & Sr.

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• Front Cover is an image of the recently discovered 1883 Jumbo lithograph (Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson), the first new Jumbo bill to come to light in over 40 years!

• Spec-ology of the Circus, Part One, Fred D. Pfening, Jr. pp. 4-20. History of the circus Spectacle, 1793 to recent years, many illustrations, descriptions. read this article online!

• Horseless in Nashville, 1864, Stuart Thayer, pp. 23-24. Paper presented at CHS 2003 convention. Howes & Norton's Champion Circus' experiences at Nashville around the time of the 1864 Battle of Nashville. Illustrations include portrait of talking clown John Lowlow and show's newspaper advertisement.

• Bill English, the Harvard Circusman, Al Stencell, pp. 26-30. Paper presented at CHS 2003 convention. Biographical information on English. Grift, circus life, 1950-90s circuses - Beatty-Cole, Sells & Gray, Hanneford, and others. Illustrations include photos of English, Beatty-Cole, Sells & Gary.

• Clown Lithos, pp. 31-32. Barnum & Bailey, Robbins Bros., Sparks, Chase & Son, Cronin Bros., Cole & Rogers, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sam B. Dill's, Beatty-Cole, RBBB, Sells-Floto, Al G. Barnes, Gentry Bros., Clyde Beatty.

• Bill Kasiska's Letterheads, p 34. Sells Bros. 1895.

• Eloise Berchtold's Last Performance, Giovanni Iuliani, pp. 36-39. Paper presented at CHS 2002 convention. Berchtold was an animal trainer, 1900s. Gatini Circus details and events, Canada, 1977. Berchtold toured with this circus and died in the ring. Illustrations included photos of Berchtold's act, her elephant Teak, and the cover of the Gatini program.

• Star Back Review, review of Jane M. Davis' book, The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top, pp. 42-44.

• Youth Circus Today, Robert Sugarman, pp. 46-50. Paper presented at CHS 2003 convention. Peru Amateur Circus (Indiana), Sailor Circus (Sarasota, FL), Fren Street Circus (San Diego, CA), Circus Juventas (St. Paul, MN), Hilltop Circus (Waldorf School, NH), Wenatachee Youth Circus (WA), Circus Smirkus (VT) summer camps, and many others. Illustrations include photos of many of these circuses; Reg Bolton, youth circus pioneer; Circus Juventas program.

• Robert H. Brisendine, 1922-2003, Richard Reynolds, pp. 52-53. Brisbane was a circus historian who was particularly interested in circus routes and show dates. While he never published any of his research, he left his entire collection, including all of his research notes, to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. The Brisendine collection is available for study by circus historians.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-Two (1916), David W. Watt, pp. 56-65. Forepaugh, Burr Robbins, William F. Cody, Showmen's League of America, Great Eastern, Shipp & Feltus, James A. Bailey, animal acts, the Stickneys, and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Burr Robbins winter quarters; Clarence A. Wortham, carnival man; Wortham carnival train; E. Darwin Colvin; Capt. Jack Bonavita, Bostock animal trainer; Bostock animal arena; Josie DeMott, lady rider; William F. Cody; John Agee, equestrian director; Gred G. Warrell, Ringling manager; portrait of John A. Forepaugh; Shipp & Feltus letterhead.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Charles "Chappie" Philip Fox, circus historian
• Traveling With the Big One in 1953, William C. Taggart, pp. 4-21. Insider details of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey, season of 1953. Taggart was a groom in the Ringling-Barnum ring stock department, summer 1953.
        Illustrations include photos of Taggart; Frank Selock, superintendent of ring stock; unloading performing horses; ring stock horses; ring stock horse tent; veternarians Higgins & Henderson; Talley Ho wagon; Oscar Konyot, animal trainer; Emmett Kelly, clown; Count Angelo Nicholas, equestrian director; Marion Seifert, dressage rider; Roberto de Vasconcellos, dressage rider; Otto Griebling, clown; commisary and pay wagon; Deafy, blacksmith; automatic dish washer; Elsie Jung and husband Paul; sideshow; ticket wagons and show entrance.

• The Castellos, A Family of Famous Riders, John Daniel Draper, pp. 22-28. Dan Castello was a partner with W. C. Coup and P. T. Barnum in the early 1870s. Article traces the Castello family of circus riders that originated with a David Loughlin who took the professional name of Castello from his early teacher Dan Castello.
        Illustrations include photos of Ada Castello, 1889; Riding Castellos, 1918; Dave Castello Sr.; Hagenback-Wallace 1920; Orrin Davenport's riding act; Davenports, Ringling-Barnum circa 1924; Dave Castello Jr., 1925; 1928 Castello letterhead.

• Three Reviews of the 1922 Ringling-Barnum Circus Opening, Gordon Whyte, pp. 30-38. Details of the show taken from Billboard and Variety. Illustrations include photos of Mabel Stark, animal trainer; steel arenas, Madison Square Garden; Ella Bradna's act; Seigrist-Silbon Troupe, trapeze; performing elephants; Mickey Graves, property superintendent; Zip; Lillian Leitzel; Harry Rittely's table rock; mother and baby hippos; Lentiani, three legged man; 1922 program cover.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty-One (1916), David W. Watt, pp. 39-46. Charlie Reed, advertising car manager; Frank Gormley, Burr Robbins treasurer, etc.; Howe's Great London 1870s; Ringlings; Forepaugh; Gollmar; Sells-Floto; Buffalo Bill; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of H. H. Tammen, Sells-Floto owner; Siegrist-Silbon, trapeze; George Arlington, Miller Bros. 101 Ranch; illustration of an early Forepaugh advertising car; 1872 Howe's advertisement; Golmar Bros. 24-sheet poster; Forepaugh lithograph featuring elephant Bolivar.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1929 Downie Bros. courier

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Barnum & Bailey ticket wagon, 1903
• The Influence of the Circus on European Armys, Robert J. Loeffler, pp. 3-23. Loeffler reviews all the press and other published accounts of stories about the methods of the circus that was of "interest to the enemy of the Allies in Europe," WWI. Buffalo Bill's Wild West; Barnum & Bailey. Circus loading and unloading methods, cookhouse and equipment. Loeffler uncovered documentation revealing that the German army adopted circus loading methods from American railroads, who, in turn, got the methods from the circus - not as a direct result of exposure to the circus.
        Illustrations include photos of Barnum & Bailey at Olympia; Barnum European train; cookhouse wagon; unloading; Buffalo Bill train, range wagon; Zoo Circus flat cars, 1926; piggyback flat, 1967; army piggyback cars, 1999; field kitchen, WWI; army ranges; German piggyback car, 1962; Ringling cookhouse, 1895; Burr Robbins range wagon, 1883; US Army field kitchen; Jones Bros. ranges, 1915; WWII German field kitchen truck; Ringling-Barnum cookhouse, 1924; Quad ranges, Ringling-Barnum, 1936; Ringling-Barnum, early 1920s.

• All About Camels and the Circus, Bill Johnston & Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 24-31. Camels in menageries, parades, pulling wagons, pageants (specs), races, camel acts.
        Illustrations include photos of a sixteen camel hitch, John Robinson, circa 1900; four camel hitch, John Robinson, circa 1900; Ringling sixteen camel hitch; one camel hitch, Norris & Rowe, circa 1905; performing camels, Gentry Bros. circa 1910; two camel hitch, Sells-Floto, circa 1910; four camel hitch, John Robinson, early 1920s; 1934 Hagenbeck-Wallace camel hitch; Nellie Dutton & performing camel Bagdad; Jack Joyce & four performing camels, 1952; John Herriott's animal act, Mills Bros., 1965; Bobby Gibbs & camels, Big Apple, 1988; Dave Hale & sixteen camel hitch, 1996; Micah Williams and Dave Hale camels, 2003; advertisements showing camel teams, 1870s.

• Circus Historical Society Convention, 2003, pp. 32-34. Highlights and photos of the convention.

• Frank A. Robbins, A Postlogue, Robert Sabia, pp. 35-37. Robbins, 1916 - 1920. Follow-up on Robbins family members in the circus. Illustrations include photos of Cook & Wilson circus train; Frank A. Robbins; train and tableau wagon, Eschman Circus, 1917; Milton Robbins, 1947; Milt Robbins, sideshow opening, Hoxie Bros.; George Hamid letterhead, 1917.

• Animal Lithos. Illustrations of animal posters - Al G. Barnes, John Robinson, Sells-Floto, RBBB, Cole Bros.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Thirty, David W. Watt (1916), pp. 39-47. Press agent Tody Hamilton; Burr Robbins; Coop & Lent; Adrienne sisters; elephant Mary; Fred Billings, Barnum & Costello; Hagenbeck Wallace; Forepaugh; John Wilson, John Robinson show; James Robinson, rider; James A. Bailey; Orrin Bros.; C. C. "Cash" Williams, circus band; Al G. Barnes; animal trainers - big cats; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Tody Hamilton; William F. Cody; Downie & Wheeler train; Coop & Lent marquee, 1916; Sparks' elephant Mary, 1916; Ed Ballard, Hagenbeck-Wallace owner; Charles E. Cory, manager, Hagenbeck-Wallace; James Robinson, rider; Capt. Dutch Ricardo, wild animal trainer.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey courier, 1935

Thumbnail of Front Cover, 1882 Sells Bros. lithograph featuring equestrian Charles Fish.
• Lillian Leitzel A Circus Diva, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 3-10. 'World's greatest woman aerialist.' Biography with many photos, 1905-1930, posters. Leitzel fell in Copenhagen in 1931, when her rigging for her aerial act failed. She died two days later.

• Random Recollections, Lillian Leitzel (1892-1931), pp. 11-15. As told to Paul Brown, fall 1930 interview. Illustrations include photos of Leitzel.

• Charles W. Fish, John Daniel Draper, pp. 16-23, read this article online! Fish was a circus trick rider. Illustrations include photos of Fish; lithographs, couriers, posters, advertisements featuring Fish.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Supplement, Robert Sabia, pp. 24-27. Additional information from newly found collection with a wealth of Frank A. Robbins material. Also circus ads and programs, economics of programming. Illustrations include photos of Robbins; Robbins billstand, 1911; Robbins' obituary; advertisements; Robbins' tombstone.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Twenty-nine (1916), David W. Watt, pp. 28-43. Forepaugh; Jules Turnour, clown; Burr Robbins; Ringling; Coop & Lent; Emma C. Miller, press agent; Buffalo Bill; Mabel Stark, animal trainer; Robert Stickney, circus rider; Al G. Barnes; elephant Tina; sea lions; elephant Mary; Society circuses; Zazel, wife of George Starr; American Circus Corporation; William Parmley, "Broncho Bill"; the Dockrills; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of J. B. Austin, Ringling contractor; Al G. Barnes bandwagon, advertising car; Reno McCree, rider; Al G. Barnes; William K. Peck, Barnes associate; Robert Stickney, rider; sea lion; performing elephant; Zazel, human cannon ball; Frank P. Spellman, U.S. Motorized Circus; elephant banner, Hagenbeck-Wallace, 1916 parade; George O. Starr, manager, Barnum & Bailey; Barnum & Bailey baseball team; R. H. Dockrill & Madam Dockrill; Fred Warrell, Ringling superintendent; Jules Turnour, clown.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1906 Campbell Bros. courier

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Pat White with Hawthorn tiger, Sterling & Reid, 2002
• Circus Year in Review: 2002 Season, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 4-26. Details of the world of the circus for 2002. Many photos, 2002 circus programs, posters.

• Conversation with Mickey King, Steve Gossard, pp. 27-30. Paper presented at CHS 2002 convention. Mickey King, a well-known trapeze artist 1900s. Trapeze act history. Illustrations include photos of King; Antoinett Concello, King's sister; Ward training barn, Bloomington, IL; Edward & Jennie Ward, trapeze performers.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure, Part Eighteen, Robert Sabia, pp. 31-38. Season of 1915, 35th annual tour. From winter quarters to the end of the season when show was attached, the end of a disastrous season and the last for the Robbins show.
        Illustrations include photo of Henry Kern, Robbins bandmaster; Robbins lithographs; newspaper advertisements; La Tena Circus letterhead; Robbins special pass, 1915; Welsh Bros.

• Cirque de Monte Carlo, p. 39. Short history, details, performers, etc., and photos of the 1979 US tour.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Twenty-eight, David W. Watt, pp. 40-51. Ben Lusbie, lightning ticket seller; Frank A. Robbins show; Frank Oakley, "Silvers," the clown; Mike Coyle, contracting agent; ticket wagons; Col. W. F. Cody; Frank Morris, side show talker; Ringlings; Al G. Barnes; Sells Floto; Coop & Lent; Cal Towers, sideshow manager; Orrin Hollis, bareback rider; "Stick" Davenport, rider; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Mike Coyle, Forepaugh agent; Ringling Bros., Chicago; Al G. Barnes 1916 band & bandwagon truck; Frank Gotch, champion wrestler, Sells-Floto 1916; Orrin & Melvins Hollis, Nettie Greer, riders; Murray Pennock, agent; Ringling Cinderella lithograph; Coop & Lent letterhead, 1916; Gollmar Bros. newspaper advertisement, 1916.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1922 Ringling-Barnum courier

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Sells Bros. courier, 1884
• Candy and the Circus Go Hand-IN-Hand, Robert J. Loeffler, pp. 4-15. History of candy stand, candy privilege, confections. read this article online! Illustrations include photos of menagerie candy stands on various shows, 1890-1932; midway candy stands on various shows, 1890-2002; Sparks candy butchers, 1928; 1931 Ringling-Barnum butcher; candy department, Cole Bros., 1937; candy company advertisements in circus programs.

• Great American Riders, 3. James Robinson "The Man Who Rides," Stuart Thayer, pp. 16-22. James Michael Fitzgerald known as James Robinson, champion bareback circus rider, 1838-1917.
        Illustrations include photos of James Robinson, 1862, 1876, undated with his son; illustration of James Robinson performing; Robinson in England handbill; illustration of Robinson's "Jockey Act," 1866; Great London lithograph featuring Robinson; lithograph 1882 Ryan & Robinson show; newspaper advertisements.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure, Part Seventeen, Robert Sabia, pp. 23-34. Details of the season of 1914 with much information on the circus and circus management. Illustrations include photos of William P. Hall & his circus farm; Kenneth Waite, clown; Horace Laird, clown; Barnum & Bailey 1914 ladies band; Robbins liberty act; 1914 Robbins letterhead; newspaper advertisements; Robbins program, songster, poster; Hillary Long's "Walking on the Head" act.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Twenty-seven (1916), David W. Watt, pp. 35-47. Fred Collier,animal trainer; John Gross, ticket wagon guard; 1916 circus season; Diabolo, fire king; elephant Hero; Orton Bros.; Coop & Lent; Lou Williams and George Osborne, extra front door men; Rhoda Royal; performing horses; Michael Rooney, bareback rider; John Davenport, father of Davenport family bareback riders; Miller Bros. and Arlington 101 Wild West; Forepaugh; James A. Bailey; Al Ringling; Coup & Lent; Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill); Frank Palmer, boss hostler; Frank Oakley, "Silvers" the clown; Josie DeMott, bareback rider; George Hartzell, clown; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Rhoda Royal, menage, 1916; Jess Willard, champion boxer; Frank Gotch, champion wrestler, 1899; Orton Bros. elephant Hero; Peter Taylor, animal trainer; Mike Rooney, bareback rider; Edward Arlington, co-owner, 101 Ranch Wild West; Coop & Lent big top, 1916; George Hartzell, clown; Cole Younger, outlaw; 1916 Buffalo Bill-101 Ranch program cover.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1904 Pawnee Bill courier featuring the Japanese Cavalry and the Russian Cossacks

Thumbnail of Front Cover, New Great Pacific, circa 1880-81, "New Grand Thunder-Keyed and Lute-Toned Mechanical Steam Orchestra, artist's rendition of calliope.
• Ethical Considerations for the Conservation of Circus Posters, Neil C. Cockerline, pp. 4-13. History of the circus poster, manufacture, types, use. Circus advertising, advance, billposting. Illustrations include many posters, lithographs, bill stand, window cards.

• Tom Mix: His Life, His Films and His Circus, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 17-30, read this article online! Illustrations include photos of Tom Mix in the army, age 20; Tom Mix 1923, 1931, 1936, 1938, undated; Mix's circus on lot, 1936; advance advertising semi, 1936; cookhouse kitchen, 1936; inside the big top, 1936; side show, 1936; Mix semi; Max Gruber's Oddities of the Jungle act; elephant, opening spec; ticket wagon; Carl Robinson and Mix band; Mabel Ward Mix; lot view, undated; lot view 1937; Jack Burslem, cand stands, Dial Turney, manager and Charles F. Warrell, asst. manager; Mix poster for 1926 film; Mix lobby poster, 1928 film; Mix lobby poster, 1935 serial; newspaper advertisements; program cover; billboard.

• From Horse Power to Horsepower: The Caterpiller Tractor and the Circus, Fred Dahlinger, Jr., pp. 33-38. Section titles: The Horse Culture of the Circus; Internal Combustion Moves America, Modernization at the Circus; Crawler Tractors and Traveling Shows; Caterpiller Tractors for the Circus; Caterpillar Tractors Do More Than Move the Circus.
        Illustrations include photos of panoramic view of Ringling-Barnum horses, 1936; Al G. Barnes calliope truck; Two Bills truck; steam calliope pulled by truck, 1920s; tractor pulling circus wagon, 1946; tractor on lot, 1935; early tractor on Ringling Bros. lot, mid-1910s; Mack truck on lot; tractors moving giraffe wagons, 1927; tractor pulling water wagon; Ringling-Barnum Cat with hoops allowing it to go under canvas; power attachment lifting bale of canvas; Arthur Bros. cat, 1945; tractor with cage apparatus, 1938; lithograph featuring Case traction engine, Ringling Bros., 1892.

• The Life and Times of Joe Bradbury, A Biographical Sketch, Richard J. Reynolds III, pp. 40-48. Bradbury wrote about circuses for more than a half century. His primary interest was the history of circus wagons, reviews of present and past shows and stories of circus showmen. The collaborative work of Bradbury, Woodcock, Parkinson and Conover is the foundation of circus wagon history. He was president of CHS 1964-65 and associate editor of Bandwagon for 42 years.
        Illustrations include photos of Bradbury; Ringling-Barnum unloading, 1947; Al G. Barnes-Sells-Floto sea lion cage, 1938; Al G. Barnes-Sells-Floto train, 1938; Downie Bros. on lot, 1936; Circus Hermanos Vazquez, 2002.

• The 2002 Circus Historical Socity Convention, Dave Price, pp. 52-53. Convention highlights and many photos of presenters.

• The Hanlon Brothers: Muscle Kings of Christendom, Robert Kitchen, pp. 56-60. The Hanlon Brothers were well-known gymnasts and trapeze artists, 1800s. William performed the "Zampilarestation," in which he passed from one trapeze to another for a distance of about 118 feet.
        Illustrations include drawings of five Hanlon brothers; William Hanlon performing "Zampillarestation;" Thomas Hanlon performing the L'Eschelle Perileuse, 1860; William Hanlon performing "Zampillaerostation," 1861; photo of William, Alfred & George Hanlon.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure, Part Sixteen, Robert Sabia, pp. 62-73. Season of 1913, Robbins had to decide to sell out, do the season or hope to combine with another show. Unable to sell or merge, he toured the midwest and New England. Season and show details.
        Illustrations include photos of Hagenbeck-Wallace winter quarters, flood of 1913; Calr Hagenbeck tableau; Henry Kern's big show band, 1913; newspaper advertisements; Robbins show lithograph, 1913; Wyoming Bill Wild West program, 1913; Young Buffalo Wild West, letterhead; Sanger's, 1913 (letterhead?); Tompkins Real Wild West, 1913 (poster?); Downie & Wheeler's, 1913 (letterhead?)

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Twenty-six, David W. Watt, pp. 76-85. Burr Robbins; elephant Babe; James Hennessy, circus band cornet player; Buffalo Bill; Forepaugh; Edward Austin, boss hostler; Irene Woodward, tatooed woman; press agents Cooke, Davis, Lawrence, Durand, Coxey, Whiting Allen; Sparks show; Showmen's League of America; Al Ringling; Forepaugh; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Burr Robbins advance car, 1887; Burr Robbins elephants; Spencer Alexander, Ringling superintendent of baggage stock; W. D. Coxey, Ringling press agent; Albert Ringling; Al Ringling home and grave; Billie Burke songster; drawing of W. W. Durand, press agent; newspaper advertisements.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, window card featuring Cliff Gregg cannon act, 1930
• The Stickneys: Great American Classical Riders, John Daniel Draper, pp. 4-13. Circus careers of this large family of performers that spanned 1827 - 1920. Illustrations include photos of Samuel Peckhill Stickney, founder of the great riding family; Robert Theodore Stickney, rider; Stickney & Donovan Circus performers, 1897; Emma Stickney, 1910; Emma and Emily Stickney, 1914; Robert D. Stickney family, 1899; Louise DeMott Stickney, 1909; advertisement featuring Robert Stickney; Stickney Circus advertisement, 1869; Great Wallace lithograph featuring Robert Stickney, 1905; drawing of Robert D. Stickney.

• Oldtime Circus Fixers: Legal Adjusters, C. A. "Red" Sonnenberg, pp. 14-16. Early 1900s circuses and their legal adjusters. Illustrations include photos of Sonnenberg; Herbert "Judge" Duval; Noyelle Burkhart; Gordon Calvit; Joe Haworth.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure, Part Fifteen, Robert Sabia, pp. 18-29. 1912 season. Performers, acts, circus management. Illustrations include photos of bandwagon, 1912; side show bannerline, 1912; cage wagons in parade, 1912, undated; tandem hitch, 1912; newspaper advertisements; 1912 Robbins lithograph featuring Young Hercules catching the cannon ball; Prairie Lillie Wild West letterhead; Sparks poster.

• Hunt Bros. Circus Winter Quarters (Photos), p. 30. Brief history of show. Photos: aerial view of winter quarters; elephants; trucks; barn; Circus Animal Farm entrance.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Twenty-five, David W. Watt, pp. 31-46. P. T. Barnum; 1915 season; George K. Steele, advance; George O. Starr; Johnny Smith, George V. Gray, George Ganweiler, circus musicians; Frank A. Robbins show failure; Frank Bell, clown; Lem Munson, contortionist; Frank Hunt, "Miss Frankie Hunt" bareback rider; Hagenbeck Wallace; George Arlington, privileges; Louise Montague, $10,000 beauty; Burr Robbins; elephant Babe; Herbert Bros., atheletes; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale; George Ganweiler, bandmaster; Frank A. Robbins, owner; Ed Ballard, owner; George Arlington, privileges manager; Louis Montague, $10,000 beauty; inside Ringling Bros. dining car; interior, Al Ringling theater; Hugo Bros. letterhead, 1915; drawing of Zazel, human cannonball; Shipp & Feltus letterhead; Miller Bros. 101 Ranch newspaper advertisement.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, courier, Orange Bros. 1927

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Pawah, white elephant, Ringling-Barnum 1927
• Great American Riders: Eaton Stone, "The Devil Rider", Stuart Thayer, pp. 4-9. Stone was a bareback rider, 1831-1866. He earned the title "Devil Rider" in Cuba and was said to have "careened around the arena with a velocity almost painful to look at." Article includes the only photo of Stone found. In it he is age 83, wearing the costume made for him by Indian women about 1839. Other illustrations are two posters circa 1851 and early newspaper advertisements.

• Getting the Show on the Road: Contracting a Circus in 1901, John Polacsek, pp. 10-15. Paper presented at CHS 2001 convention. Circus general agent's roles, responsibilities and details of their life on the road. Illustrations include Goodrich Shows letterhead, 1901; 1901 printing company letter; Goodrich contract issue; Goodrich herald, 1900; 1901 route card; complimentary ticket.

• Circus Royale: Circus of Illlusion, John H. McConnell, pp. 16-19. Information from show records for the show's World Premier Tour 1987-1988. Insights into how and why the show was conveived, produced and toured. Before framing this show, McConnell was general manager of the Big Apple Circus. Details on circus management.
        Illustrations include photos of Circus Royal cast; ringmaster David Hibling; aerialist Debbie Chapman; Mike and Tricia Phillips; clown Terry Parsons; Trampoline Guys; interior of show at Detroit; program cover.

• DeWayne Bros. Circus (photos), p. 20. Ted DeWayne toured California 1946-1972. Photos: menagerie, show on lot, trucks, and performing ponies.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure, Part Fourteen, Robert Sabia, pp. 21-35. Season of 1911. Continued saga of this circus showman's yearly struggles. Information on acts, performers, incidents, circus management. Illustrations include photos of advance car; LaBelle Calipha, sideshow dancer; James Burns, wire walker; clown James DuVal; Herbert brothers, acrobats; James E. Gordon, press and mail agent; big show band; route book cover; Robbins biplane lithograph; California Frank's Wild West advertisement; newspaper advertisements; Robbins letterhead, 1911.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business, Part Twenty-four (1915), David W. Watt, pp. 36-47. Burr Robbins; Billy Rice, minstrel; Barton & Bailey; Hagenbeck Wallace; Sells Floto; Buffalo Bill; settling claims; W. F. "Doc" Gardner, advance; Charles Hutchinson, treasurer Barnum & Bailey; Jay Rial, press agent; Silbons, aerial artists; Tody Hamilton, press agent; Sparks circus; Rhoda Royal; Frank Lewis "Major Dumond," lion tamer; Billy Burke, clown; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Barnum & Bailey tableau wagon; Howes Great London tableau decorated with opposition sign; Charles Hutchinson; R. E. "Tody" Hamilton, press agent; wild animal circus on Great Patterson carnival; clown Frank "Silvers" Oakley; newspaper advertisements; Luella Forepaugh Fish decorated envelope; Siegrist-Sibon letterhead; clown Billy Burke, Barnum & London lithograph; Daisy Belmont, rider.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Miller Bros. & Arlington 101 Ranch Wild West, 1912

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Frank A. Robbins show, circa 1906
• Heber Bros. Greater Show, Robert A. Heber, pp. 4-8. More About Heber Bros. Circus, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 8-14. Details and history of this wagon show, circa 1907-1917. Family history starting circa 1879. Pfening provides additional information on show origin, details of seasons 1908-1917, family history and entry into the entertainment business.
        Illustrations include photos of Heber Bros. band & marquee, 1909; dining tent & cook wagon; inside the cook wagon; Heber draft stock; bandwagons; band lined up for grand entry; band at front door; 1913 lot scene; band playing pre-show concert; Heber Bros. wagons on the road; 1911 billstand; advance bill posting crew, 1914; Reginald C. "Pop" heber, founder; Heber letterhead; newspaper advertisements; program cover; Heber herald.

• A History of Animal Shows: At the Saint Louis Zoo, Jim Alexander, pp. 15-21. Paper presented at CHS 2001 convention. The zoo's Arena shows, 1900s. Illustrations include photos of the animal amphitheater; 1952 elephant act; 1952 chimp show; Jules Jacot's cat act, 1954; Jules and tiger; chimps riding ponies; sea lion show, 1981; elephant band.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Thirteen, Robert Sabia, pp. 22-29. 1910 season. Winter quarters preparation. Season's acts and incidents. Circus life and management. Illustrations include photos of Dave Costello Sr., rider, 1910; tableau, 1910; sideshow opening; Robbins elephants, 1910; advertisement.

• 1930s Post Cards of Hagenbeck-Wallace Winter Quarters, p. 30. Photos: horse and rider, lion act, aerial view of winter quarters, winter quarters, elephant act.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Twenty-Three, David W. Watt, pp. 31-39. Forepaugh; William A. Pinkerton, detective; George "Popcorn" Hall, showman; Warren A. Patrick, treasurer and bookeeper; Dan Rice; Marks family, riders; Hagenbeck Wallace; Arthur Davis, various roles; and more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Ringling show on lot 1915; George "Popcorn" Hall, showman; Bert Cole, announcer; Warren A. Patrick; Albert Ringling; Minnie Marks, rider; drawing of Captain Bates & wife, giants; Norris & Rowe advertisement.

  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Robbins Bros. 1938

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Kelly-Miller Circus owner David Rawls & Delilah Rosales, elephant Nina, 2001.
• The Circus Year in Review: the 2001 Season, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 4-25. Pfening's annual review of 2001 circuses, accompanied by many photographs, 2001 programs. Photos of shows on the lots, performers, staff, wagons. Includes the effect of 9-11 on the circuses.

• The Cookes, Forgotten Equestrians of the Circus, John Daniel Draper, pp. 26-34. This family was one of the most prolific circus families, originating in the late 1700s. Members of this family were still performing in the early 1900s. Descendant chard to Thomas Cooke included.
        Illustrations include photos of John Henry Cooke; Mary Ann Cole, mother of W. W. Cole; Herbert Cooke; James E. Cooke; Madam Carlotta De Berg; Wooda Cooke and family; Millie Turnour, trapeze; drawing of Kate Cooke, rider; ringmaster Leon Douglass Cooke.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Twelve, Robert Sabia, pp. 35-43. 1909, a profitable season. Started small due to financial limitations. Show staff, performers, acts, incidents, management. Illustrations include photos of 1909 show personnel; ticket wagon; program cover, route card.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Twenty-Two (1915), David W. Watt, pp. 44-51. Forepaugh after Adam's death; Ringling; Burr Robbins; 1915 opposition in Detroit; Hodginis European Show; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Leo Singer & troup of midgets; Billie Burke; Forepaugh 1887 courier; Burr Robbins courier; Forepaugh courier featuring Gen. George Custer; engraving of Adam Forepaugh Jr.; lithograph featuring Singer Midgets.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Ringling Bros. 1901, featuring giraffe

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Forepaugh & Barnum Combined, 1887
• Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Coach History 1919-1946, Robert S. MacDougall, pp. 3-19. Spans the years 1919 to 1946. Show details, railroad cars, many photos. Article is the result of more than ten years of research.

• The Jackley Drops, Stuart Thayer, pp. 20-22. Two acrobatic circus acts were named for individuals, the Risley and Jackley. The latter is seemingly no longer performed, probably due to the stress on the body. Act consists of falling from a height, landing on the hands on a platform, and ending with flip-flops to a standing position. Act introduced by Nathan Jackley. Details of the act and the performers who practiced it.
        Illustrations include photos of Nathan Jackley; Jackley performer Joe LeFleur, 1897; diagram of the Jackley Drop; 1886 trade card featuring the Jackleys; Mlle. Kabowls, drop performer, 1885; Farnum brothers, Dick Farnum & LeFleur, 1893 advertisement; special paper featuring Joe LaFleur, 1895, 1910.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Eleven, Robert Sabia, pp. 23-28. 1908, recovery from the previous year's sell-off. Starting with no equipment and little money, the persistent Robbins was able to assemble the equipment needed and hire staff. Show details, incidents, acts, management.
        Illustrations include newspaper advertisement; Robbins lithograph; special paper featuring unicycles; leaping the abyss, Robbins courier.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Twenty-One (1915), David W. Watt, pp. 29-43. Forepaugh; James A. Bailey; Henry Messier, walking and running races; circus equestrian directors (ringmasters); Rhoda Royal; W. W. Cole; Buffalo Bill; Sells Floto; lots of circus history; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Adam Forepaugh Jr., animal trainer; Buffalo Bill; W. W. Cole; H. H. Tammen & Bill Cody; Charles Andress; Al Ringling theater, 1915; marshall, 1915 Ringling parade; Barnum & Bailey performers; New York Winter Circus courier; Fall of Babylon program; 101 Ranch 1915 poster featuring Col. Joe Miller; W. W. Cole lithograph, featuring living serpents; Blondon, Forepaugh's wire walking horse.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Cole Bros. 1906

Thumbnail of Front Cover, John Robinson's featuring riding tiger, early 1920s
• Herbert L. Witt & Sons, An Obscure Circus Wagon Builder, Fred Dahlinger, Jr., pp. 4-11. Circa 1906-1921. Details on circus wagons. Illustrations include photos of the Witt shop circa 1907; tableau, cages and January mule cart wagons; 1907 carload including steam calliope, charios; bandwagon and calliope in parade; band chariot, Rose Kilian show; Kilian show marquee and ticket wagon; small band chariot; Johnny J. Jones cage wagon; tableau wagon; Sparks tableau wagon; show fronts built by Witt.

• Great American Riders: 1. Levi J. North, "America's Own Horseman", Stuart Thayer, pp. 16-26. Levi North was one of the great circus showmen. He was a standing rider for over 40 years, his career starting in 1826. Details on North, his acts, and very early circuses. North was the first rider to perform a somersault on horseback.
        Illustrations include drawing of Levi J. North in action; drawing of North in costume; 1858 newspaper advertisement; portrait of North, 1880; photo of NOrth and son, Levi F., circa 1870; 1866 advertisement.

• Gunther Gebel-Williams, A Memory, William H. Woodcock, pp. 28-29. Memories of this famous animal trainer. Illustrations include photos of Gunther and Bill Woodcock, 1994; Gunther performing elephants and tiger, 1970; Gunther performing horses, elephant, tigers.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Ten, Robert Sabia, pp. 33-46. 1907. A show that hadn't made money for two years ended the season being put up for sale. Another tough year in the ongoing Robbins saga. Show details, acts, incidents, circus management.
        Illustrations include photos of advance car, 1905; Carrie & John Rooney, riders; Leon Washburn; Barnum & Bailey menagerie, 1907; Ringling Swan bandwagon, 1907; 1907 Buffalo Bill lithograph; Main's Fashion Plate courier; illustration of show and acts from Robbins 1907 courier; 1907 Robbins courier cover; Robbins 1907 lithograph; newspaper advertisement.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Twenty, David W. Watt, pp. 51-59. Side show 'freaks'; Johnny Patterson, "Rambler from Clare"; Forepaugh; Dick Waterman, horse driver; Matthew Scott, Jumbo's keeper; Gentry Bros.; Burr Robbins; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Hattie & Tom, freaks; Matthew Scott & Jumbo; Henry G. Gentry, showman; Hippodrome, New York City; songster, clown Johnny Patterson; advertisement featuring Ben Lusbie Lightning Ticket Seller.

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Gunther Gebel-Williams
• Gunther Gebel-Williams: 'The Lord of the Rings', Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 4-6. Bigraphical information on this famous animal trainer. Illustration include photos of Gebel as a teenager; Gevel with elephant & tiger, 1960s; William elephant headdress, 1969; seven tiger act, 1969; gebel with giraffe; Kenneth Feld & Gunther at his retirement party; Gevel with equestrian horse.

• A 1973 Interview with Art Concello, Tom Parkinson, pp. 7-28. Concello was with the Flying Wards, trapeze artists. Later a manager and proprietor. Details on performance and management.
        Illustrations include photos of Concello as a teenager; Concello with Flying Wards, 1927, 1928; Concello, Everett White, Antoinette, 1931; Concello's flying act, circa 1935; Art and Antoinette, 1944; caterpillar that replace horses; Beatty-Russell ticket wagon; Beatty show ticket wagon; big top; Concello and C. B. DeMille; Waldo Tupper, general agent; Clyde Beatty; Ringling executives Lloyd Morgan, manager, Tuffy Genders general manager, Concello executive director, Rudy Bundy treasurer, Bob Dover performance director; unloading a tunnel car; wagon designed to carry rubber floor mats; Beatty show ticket wagons; Irvin Feld; Roy Bundy, John North, Concello; Sparks ticket wagon; Tito Gaona, flyer; model of seat wagon proposed by Concello; drawing showing seat wagons in use; Flying Concellos letterhead, 1932; 1935 poster featuring the Concellos; Pan-Pacific newspaper advertisement, 1945; poster featuring Concello flying act; 1947 Ringling-Barnum program.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Nine, Robert Sabia, pp. 29-38. 1906 season details. Staff, acts, incidents, management. Illustrations include photos of Robbins billstand, circa 1906; unloading flat cars; unloading horse cars; Robbins bandwagon; Robbins stock cars; 1906 Robbins letterhead; pages from 1906 route book; 1906 herald; livery contract.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Nineteen (1914), David W. Watt, pp. 39-43. Forepaugh; Burr Robbins; sideshows; Watt's career; and much more. Illustrations include photos of the early Madison Square Garden; Jo-Jo, dog-faced boy; Aztec children; portrait of Adam Forepaugh; Burr Robbins courier. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, 1907

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Hagenbeck Wild Animal Show, World's Fair, 1893
• Arthur M. Concello (1911-2001), Fred D. Pfening, Jr., p. 3.

• 'And the Lion Will Lay Down with the Lamb': Carl Hagenbeck's Visions of Paradise, Nigel Rothfels, pp. 4-11. Paper presented at CHS 200 convention. Hagenbeck, animal importer and trainer, was one of the biggest source of animals for the circus. Also had the Hagenbeck Circus late 1800s - early 1900s.
        Illustrations include photos of Carl Hagenbeck; zebras at Hagenbeck Tierpark; Hagenbeck animal exhibit, Columbian Exposition, 1893; steel arena, Hagenbeck show; front of 1899 Hagenbeck traveling show; Hagenbeck animal exhibit, 1904; 1905 Hagenbeck Wild Animal show; Hagenbeck's letterhead, circa 1900, 1899; Hagenbeck program cover, 1893 World's Fair; 1904 Hagenbeck program; special lithograph for World's Fair; 1905 program, Hagenbeck Circus.

• What Ever Happened to the Giraffe-Neck Women, Fred D. Pfening Jr. & Richard L. Mong, pp. 12-15. The long neck women of the Padaung tribe from Burma were a feature on circuses in 1930s. Dick Mong visited with the Padaung people in 2001. Illustrations include photos of the Padaung women, 1933, 2002, and several undated.

• Harrington's Nickle Plate Show: A Depression Circus Lasting Three Seasons, Joseph T. Bradbury, pp. 16-25. Ernest A. Harrington's career 1900 to 1930s. Details of 1932-1934 show. Illustrations include photos of Ernest A. Harrington; bandwagon; La Mont elephant Fredia; seat semi; trucks on the road, 1932; the big top; big top and pole semi;, larage semi, 1933; wild west riders in backyard; Indian tepees in front of big top, 1934; semi with box cage; 1932 herald; Harrington lithograph featuring lion family; 1934 letterhead; newspaper ad; 1934 herald.

• Two Celebrated Riders: William and James Dutton, John Daniel Draper, pp. 26-32. Bareback riders late 1800s to early 1930s. Family and performance details. Illustrations include photos of James Dutton; Effie Dutton; James Dutton carrying act; Nellie Dutton & Willie Bausman, Dutton Society Circus; Nellie Dutton and camel Bagdad, 1944; lithographs featuring William Dutton, equestrian.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Eight, Robert Sabia, pp. 33-44. 1892-1904 seasons. Robbins was not an owner during this period and he declared bankruptcy in 1902. He was back into the ranks of circus ownership in 1905. Details of 1905 show, staff, acts, incidents, management. More on the ups and downs of this circus showman.
        Illustrations include photos of Sautelle mud show ticket wagon; Robbins family; Robbins performers; Fred Beckmann, agent and circus and carnival owner; newspaper advertisement; portrait of Sig Sautelle; Sautelle letterhead; Robbins lithograph featuring elephants, one singing, another playing piano.

• The Circus Historical Society 2001 Convention, pp. 45-47. Convention highlights and photos of presenters, audience, auction.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, 1905 Hagenbeck Circus courier

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Elephant unloading, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, 2001
• The Life of Tiny Kline and the Evolution of Twentieth-Century American Mass Culture, Janet Davis, pp. 4-8. Paper presented at CHS 2000 convention. Starting in burlesque, Tina Helen Deutsch was a performers on three ring railroad circuses, in movies, in thrill shows and lastly with Disney. Davis tells the life of Kline, including her career in the circus as a statue girl, standing Roman rider, flyer and iron jaw performer. Her last big act was playing Tinker Bell at Disneyland in the 1960s, where she slid, with wand in hand, from the top of the Matterhorn toward Sleeping Beauty's castle - she was then in her early seventies!
        Illustrations include photos of Tiny Kline, 1918, 1941; 1913 Arlington & Beckmann Wild West sideshow; 1933 advertisement featuring Kline, "The Zep Girl."

• Showground Bound: Where Caste Is Observed: According to Rank and Rating, Tiny Kline, pp. 9-18. Details on the life of circus performers. Illustrations include photos of inside the ladies dressing room, Barnum & Bailey; Ena Claren, statue lady; Ella Bradna; 1916 Barnum & Bailey big top; large curtains lifted before each statue pose; Barnum & Bailey sideshow, 1916; Ella & Fred Bradna, 1916; Fred Bradan as parade marshall; Jennie Silbon in spec wardrobe; lithograph featuring the statue act, 1916; 1916 Barnum & Bailey program; 1916 Persia pageant lithograph.

• Frank A. Robbins: A Most Successful Failure: Part Seven, Robert Sabia, pp. 19-29. 1892-1904. Early in 1892 the show was attached due to non-payment of its obligations. Broke, Robbins went with the Hunting's Circus through 1895. Every circus ownership up to 1896 had a disasterous end since 1887. The ongoing trials and tribulations of this circus proprietor.
        Illustrations include photos of Frank A. Robbins, circa 1893; Hunting show dining and privilege car Winona; Hunting bandwagon; Dan Castello, equestrian director; Miles Orton, equestrian director, 1898; newspaper advertisements.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Eighteen (1914), David W. Watt, pp. 30-39. Hagenbeck Wallace; 1914 circuses; Forepaugh; Dan Rice; Ringling; Rhoda Royal; Barnum & Bailey; W. W. Cole; James A. Bailey; Hagenbeck Wallace; Fred Walton, acrobat; Burr Robbins; Fred Fisher, "Flying Fishers"; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Dan Rice, clown & owner; front of Bostok animal show; performers, Miller & Arlington Wild West, 1914; newspaper advertisements.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Cole Bros. Clyde Beatty courier, 1936

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey elephants parade in front of Capitol building, Washington, DC, 1999
• The Circus Year in Review: 2000 Season, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 4-28. Details on circuses in 2000. Many photos of shows, performers; program covers.

• A Celebrated Rider: William Sells, John Daniel Draper, pp. 29-33. Life and career, this Sells brother later operated a grift show. Was a famous bareback rider. Illustrations include photos of Willie Sells, age 11; Sells & Downs ticket wagon, 1902; 1882 poster featuring Willie Sells; drawing of William Sells, 1889; newspaper advertisements.

• Frank A. Robbins A Most Successful Failure: Part Six, Robert Sabia, pp. 34-43. 1890 season, the resilient Robbins takes a show on the road that folded at the end of the season. 1891, again forms a show that was seized by a sheriff in July. Sabia makes the point that Robbins had formed five shows for five consecutive seasons and lost them all. More to come, next issue. Illustrations include newspaper advertisements; Irwin Bros. songster.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Seventeen, David W. Watt, pp. 44-54. Louis E. Cooke, advance and general manager; Hagenbeck Wallace; Ringling; Forepaugh; elephant Gunda; Pete Conklin, clown; Kiralfys; Mable Stark; circus management; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Louis E. Cooke, general agent; Lew Graham, announcer & sideshow manager; inside Sells-Floto big top, 1914; clown Pete Conklin; Mable Stark, tiger trainer; Ringling Bros. lithograph featuring spec Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, 1914.

  
  Thumbnail of Back Cover, Al G. Barnes equine cabaret, 1919

Thumbnail of Front Cover, Sun Bros.
• Ringling Barnum Circus: Coach History 1957-1978, Robert S. MacDougall, pp. 4-15. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey railroad coach history 1957-1972. Section headings: Plans for the New Train; Five Cars Sold; List of hospital cars in Sarasota quarters in 1959; Ringling-Barnum new 1960 fifteen car train; Ringling-Barnum wagons and equipment 1960 to 1963; Homecoming to new winter quarters; Winter quarters details; 1962 Car Swapping and Number Changes; First new cars purchased since hospital cars in 1946-1947; Ownership of show changes; Expansion of show into two units; 1972 Red Unit Train.
        Illustrations include photos of 1957 rehersals held in train show buildings; 1957 train loading; 1958 show in Hollywood Bowl; Planning the new show, Lloyd Morgan, Tuffy Genders, Art Concello, Rudy Bundy, Bob Dover; testing new wagon frame in tunnel car; checking new wagon frame; test unloading and loading, 1960; loading wagons, 1959-60; transfer from truck to tunnel car wagons, 1960; unloading train, wagons, animals, 1960; Venice winter quarters, 1960; aerial view of tunnel car train; aerial view of Venice railroad siding, 1960-61; interior of "pie car," 1960s; tunnel cars, 1963; aerial view Venice winter quarters, 1961; private car, Jomar, 1962; signing contract transferring ownership from John Ringling North to Irvin and Israel Feld and Judge Roy Hofheinz; WWII hospital car acquired 1970; 1972 train horse car; 1972 girls car; 1972 train car.

• An Examination of Bear Acts, Stuart Thayer, pp. 16-18. Traces early history of this facinating act. Illustrations include 1854 cut advertising Sig. Capelano wrestling a bear; Dan Rice special paper advertising Aalfred Lovell and his grizzly bear; Wallace's bear act; Grizzly Adams 1860 newspaper advertisement; Grizzly Adams and his bears.

• A Celebrated Rider: William Showles, John Daniel Draper, pp. 19-23. Family and performance history. Showles was a famous bareback rider. Illustrations include photos of a young Willie Showles in costume; William Showles, circa 1894; drawing of Daisy Belmont, rider; lithograph featuring William Showles; lithograph featuring Showles and Belmont, 1890; Showles' advertisement, 1896.

• Frank A. Robbins A Most Successful Failure: Part Five, Robert Sabia, pp. 24-30. 1889, another season ends in failure, but Robbins goes on. Season details, staff, performers, incidents, management. Illustrations include Robbins songster featuring John Foster, circa 1889; newspaper advertisements.

• Side Lights on the Circus Business: Part Sixteen, David W. Watt, pp. 31-39. Frank Melville, rider; P. A. Older; elephants; wardrobe department; and much more. See the bottom of this page for information on the content of this series.
        Illustrations include photos of Frank Melville, rider & equestrian director; Stuart Craven, elephant trainer; Ringling Bros. winter quarters wardrobe department; elephant Hebe and baby Columbia, Cooper & Bailey; drawing of elephant Tippo Saib, 1868 poster; Tippo Saib, Van Amburgh courier; Van Amburgh poster featuring Tippo Saib; rhino pictured in Van Amburgh animal booklet.

• The Circus Year In Review, the Season of 1900, Fred D. Pfening, Jr., pp. 4-15. This year there were a number of railroad circuses and scores of wagon shows. Details of some of these shows, staff, performers, events, etc. Includes a list of 1900 shows not covered in article.
        Illustrations include photos of loading an elephant, Barnum 1900; John Robinson parade, 1900; Pawnee Bill ticket wagon; Buckskin Bill baggage wagon; Gollmar Bros. overland advance car; 1900 Sig Sautelle ticket wagon; Forepaugh-Sells lithograph featuring Kilpatrick's bicycle ride; 1900 Buffalo Bill program cover; newspaper advertisements; Great Wallace lithograph featuring Stirk family bicycle riders; Sells & Gray courier; Burns, Boldt & Hanus herald.

• Two Rings and a Hippodrome Track, William L. Slout, pp. 18-21. Paper presented at CHS 2000 convention. Slout details the history of the change from the traditional one ring circus to two rings plus, before the actual adoption of three rings in 1881. Illustrations include photo of the inside of the Barnum's big top, 1872; drawings of Barnum's Grand Entree, 1873; drawing of Barnum's 1873 show.

• Manchester's "Commodore" George Washington Morrison Nutt: Myth Versus Reality, A. H. Saxon, pp. 24-31. Noted historian Saxon relates the history of George Washington Morrison Nutt, one of Barnum's prodigies, a dwarf who married the wife of the deceased and famous Tom Thumb.
        Illustrations include photos of "Commodore Nutt" and Minnie Warren, 1863; early costume worn by Nutt; Lavinia Warren, circa 1862; "The Fairy Wedding," 1863; carriage Barnum had made for the "Commodore;" Nutt, Tom Thumb, Minnie & Lavinia Warren; Mrs. Tom Thumb; cemetery munuments of Nutt family.

• Dennie Curtis: An Early Ringling Equestrain, John Daniel Draper, pp. 34-37. Career of Daniel K. Curtis who began his circus career in circa 1907. Curtis was a horse trainer and rider who developed a number of different acts with horses and other animals. Unusual was his taximeter mule act. His wife Edna was elected to the Circus Hall of Fame in 1957.
        Illustrations include photos of Curtis act, 1922; Curtis