James Deutsch - Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project Circus poster showing performers in a pool Library of Congress Circus poster showing the "Great Jumbo's Skeleton" ...

American small towns circa 1900, whether they are viewed as cozy and homey nests of family life or as bleak Main Streets peopled by philistines, were indisputably colorless. They were dusty in the ...

The Ringling Museum of Art is turning into a three-ring circus -- and visitors can step right up and be a part of it. If you want to get a sense of what it's like to walk on a high wire, or squeeze ...

This Saturday, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art opens The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithography Company, 1879-1939. The exhibit, which showcases the circus’ influence on ...

Photoshop CS6 tutorial showing how to make a custom, vintage, circus poster. Part 1 shows how to make the finished poster ...

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In June of 1972, Nicholas Whitman photographed vintage circus posters, many layers deep, in the protected bay of a barn near the intersection of Routes 346 and 22 in North Petersburg, New York. Around ...

Crystal Palace Grand Imperial Circus and Hippodrome: Nora, the Only Performing Hippopotamus in the World, c. 1932, Maycock Cadle & Graham Ltd. Howard Tibbals Collection. Les 4 Freres Bouglione ...

All Ron Berger wanted was to install a door between two buildings. Instead, much to his astonishment, he opened a window into the early history of Durand, Wisconsin, on Labor Day weekend 2015 when he ...