RINGLING BROS BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS CARRIAGE MACHINERY PHOTO (21)

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Glossy 10.00" x 8.00" photograph showing view of the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus carriage. Very fine condition.
According to Wikipedia:
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
is a
United States
traveling
circus
company billed as
The Greatest Show on Earth
. The circus, known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, was started in 1919 when the
Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth
, a circus created by
P. T. Barnum
and
James Anthony Bailey
was merged with the
Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows
. The Ringling brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.
On July 16, 1956, at the Heidelberg Race Track in Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania, the circus ended its season early, with President
John Ringling North
announcing that it would no longer exhibit under their own portable tents and starting in 1957 would exhibit in permanent venues, such as sports stadiums and arenas that had the seating already in place. In 1967,
Irvin Feld
and his brother Israel, along with Houston Judge
Roy Hofheinz
bought the circus from the Ringling family. In 1971, the Felds and Hofheinz sold the circus to
Mattel
, buying it back from the toy company in 1982. After the death of Irvin Feld in 1984, the circus has been a part of
Feld Entertainment
, an international entertainment firm headed by
Kenneth Feld
, with its headquarters in
Ellenton, Florida
Currently, the circus maintains two
circus train
-based shows, the Blue Tour and the Red Tour.
[31]
Each train is a mile long with roughly 60 cars: 40 passenger cars and 20 freight.
[32]
Rolling stock
belonging to the circus bears the
reporting mark
"RBBX". The Blue and Red Tours present a full three-ring production for two years each (taking off the month of December), visiting alternating major cities each year. Each train presents a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 — the first year of P.T. Barnum's show. The Blue Tour presents the even-numbered editions on a two-year tour (beginning each even-numbered year), and the Red Tour presents the odd-numbered editions on the same two-year tour (beginning each odd-numbered year).
In the 1950s there was one gigantic train system comprising three separate train loads that brought the main show to the big cities. The first train load consisted of 22 cars and had the tents and the workers to set them up; the second section comprised 28 cars and carried the canvasmen, ushers and sideshow workers; the third section had 19 sleeping cars for the performers.
[33]
From 2003 to 2015 the circus also operated a truck-based Gold Tour presenting a scaled-back, single-ring version of the show designed to serve smaller markets deemed incapable of supporting the three-ring versions.
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