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Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

Index Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus was a circus that traveled across America in the early part of the 20th century. [1]

50 relations: Al G. Barnes Circus, Alfred Szklarski, American Circus Corporation, Baldwin Park, California, Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., Carl Hagenbeck, Cathy Day, Chicago Park District, Chicago Reader, Circus, Circus Hall of Fame, Circus train, Clyde Beatty, Cole Bros. Circus, Concordia University Chicago, Cowboy, Elephant, Emmett Kelly, Feld Entertainment, First Love (short story), Forest Park, Illinois, French Lick, Indiana, Great Depression, Great Flood of 1913, Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, Hammond Circus Train Wreck, Hammond, Indiana, Hoot Gibson, Horse, John Ringling, Jungleland USA, Kerosene lamp, Lion, Maria Rasputin, Monroe, Wisconsin, Neo-Futurists, Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Peru, Indiana, Red Skelton, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Rodeo, Samuel Beckett, Sara Gruen, Sells Floto Circus, Showmen's Rest, Sleeping car, Tiger, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Vaudeville, Water for Elephants.

Al G. Barnes Circus

Al G. Barnes Circus was an American circus run by Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse.

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Alfred Szklarski

Alfred Szklarski (January 21, 1912 in Chicago – April 9, 1992 in Katowice) was a Polish author of youth literature.

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American Circus Corporation

The American Circus Corporation consisted of the Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and the Al G. Barnes Circus.

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Baldwin Park, California

Baldwin Park is a city located in the central San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.

Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Company,, is a case in which the United States Supreme Court found that advertisements were protected by copyright. The case is now cited for the proposition that commercial speech can be protected by copyright.

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Carl Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck (June 10, 1844 – April 14, 1913) was a German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum.

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Cathy Day

Cathy Day is an American novelist, short story writer, and English professor.

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Chicago Park District

The Chicago Park District is the oldest and one of the largest park districts in the United States.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Circus

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

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Circus Hall of Fame

Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, also known as Peru Circus Farm or Valley Farms, is located in Peru, Indiana.

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Circus train

A circus train is a method of conveyance for circus troupes.

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Clyde Beatty

Clyde Beatty (June 10, 1903 – July 19, 1965) joined the circus as a cage cleaner as a teen and became famous as a lion tamer and animal trainer.

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Cole Bros. Circus

The Cole Bros.

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Concordia University Chicago

Concordia University Chicago is private, coeducational, liberal arts university located on a 40-acre campus in the suburban Village of River Forest, Illinois west of downtown Chicago.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Emmett Kelly

Emmett Leo Kelly (December 9, 1898March 28, 1979) was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Depression era.

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Feld Entertainment

Feld Entertainment Inc. is a live show production company which owns a number of traveling shows and the now defunct Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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First Love (short story)

First Love is a short story by Samuel Beckett, written in 1946 and first published in its original French version in 1970 and, in Beckett's English translation, in 1973.

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Forest Park, Illinois

Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, United States.

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French Lick, Indiana

French Lick is a town in French Lick Township, Orange County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Great Flood of 1913

The Great Flood of 1913 occurred between March 23 and March 26, after major rivers in the central and eastern United States flooded from runoff and several days of heavy rain.

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Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus was a circus that traveled across America in the early part of the 20th century.

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Hammond Circus Train Wreck

The Hammond Circus Train Wreck occurred on June 22, 1918 during the last months of World War I and was one of the worst train wrecks in US history.

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Hammond, Indiana

Hammond is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States.

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Hoot Gibson

Hoot Gibson (August 6, 1892 – August 23, 1962) was an American rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director, and producer.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''.

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John Ringling

John Nicholas Ringling (May 31, 1866 – December 2, 1936) is the most well-known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the circus into what it is today.

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Jungleland USA

Jungleland USA was a private zoo, animal training facility, and animal theme park in Thousand Oaks, California, United States, on the current site of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

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Kerosene lamp

A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene (paraffin) as a fuel.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).

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Maria Rasputin

Maria Rasputin (baptized as Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina) (26 March 1898 – 27 September 1977) was the daughter of Grigori Rasputin and his wife Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina.

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Monroe, Wisconsin

Monroe, known as "the Swiss Cheese Capital of the USA", is a city in and the county seat of Green County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Neo-Futurists

The Neo-Futurists are an experimental theater troupe founded by Greg Allen (an alum of the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center) in 1988, based on an aesthetics of honesty, speed and brevity.

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Ohlsdorf Cemetery

Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the quarter Ohlsdorf of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world.

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Peru, Indiana

Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, United States.

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Red Skelton

Richard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913September 17, 1997) was an American comedy entertainer.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Ringling Bros.

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Rodeo

Rodeo is a competitive sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later Central America, South America, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.

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Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen (born 1969 in Vancouver) is an author with dual Canadian and American citizenship.

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Sells Floto Circus

The Sells Floto Circus was a combination of the Floto Dog & Pony Show and the Sells Brothers Circus that toured with sideshow acts in the United States during the early 1900s.

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Showmen's Rest

Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery mostly for circus performers owned by the Showmen's League of America The first performers and show workers that were buried there are in a mass grave from when between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred.

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Sleeping car

The sleeping car or sleeper (often wagon-lit) is a railway passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful.

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Tiger

The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside.

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University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

The University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (also known as UW–Eau Claire, UWEC or simply Eau Claire) is a public liberal arts university located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen, written as part of National Novel Writing Month.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagenbeck-Wallace_Circus

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