On July 6, 1944, 168 people were killed and 700 others were hurt at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's Circus on ...

Question: I have a framed circus poster stamped “Strobridge” owned by our family for several generations. It is 40 inches long and 26 inches high. “The Barnum & Bailey Greatest ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

The Barnum & Bailey Circus Acrobats Poster, circa 1890. Other circuses followed suit, but Barnum met his match in two outstanding rivals: a former Philadelphia butcher named Adam Forepaugh, ...

When P.T. Barnum began 130 years ago what would become known as “the Greatest Show on Earth,” the circus was just about the only place for the public to see exotic animals. Feld says the ...

The William Seymour Theatre Collection, which is housed chiefly in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, encompasses over one hundred collections relating to the performing arts, including theater ...

BARABOO, Wis. — When Richard Bennett attended his first Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in 1949 in Sarasota, Fla., the 9-year-old boy could not have guessed just how much ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down in May 2017, a victim of changing tastes and years of protests by animal-rights groups, The Greatest Show on Earth seemed like the ...

The circus is coming to town six years after it appeared to be gone for good. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, advertised as “The Greatest Show on Earth” will make two ...