Circus Historical Society

Circuses

Circuses, brief information

Circus Winter Quarters, locations, early 1900s

Routes, daily routes for a number of circuses with cities visited

Al G. Barnes, 1914, 1915, 1922 (Official Route Book with staff and performers, route)

P. T. Barnum's Circus, 1872-1873, 1875-77, 1879-80 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day route)

Barnum & London Circus, 1881-86 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day routes)

Campbell Bros. Circus (Courier)

Cooper, Bailey & Co.'s Circus, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880 (Official Route Books with staff and performers)

Adam Forepaugh Circus, 1878, 1880, 1883 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day route; 1874 Courier)

Adam Forepaugh Sells Brothers Circus (Courier)

Gentry Brothers Courier, 1913     Gentry Bros version two, 1913     Gentry Bros, 1929 (Couriers, pdf files)

Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus (Courier)

King & Franklin Shows 1888, 1890, offical route book with staff and performers, route.

LaTena's 1917 (Official Route Book with staff and performers, route)

Walter L. Main Circus   (Walter L. Main Circus & Andrew Downie's Wild Animal Show, 1922 courier, pdf file)

Great Pan-American Shows, 1903 (Official Route Book with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day route)

Ringling Bros., 1890-1903 (Official Route Books with staff and performers, detailed day-by-day routes)

Ringling Bros., 1884-92, 1904-18 (routes only)

Ringling Bros., 1919-1967 (routes only)

Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, 1941-1951 (Official Route Books with staff and performers)

Sells Brothers, 1878 (Official Route Book with staff and performers)

Sells Brothers & S. H. Barrett, 1890 (Official Route Book with staff and performers)

Sparks Circus, 1946 (program, route)     Sparks Circus (1919, 1923 couriers)

Yankee Patterson Circus 1945 (staff, program, performers, route)

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