Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus #1

| March 26, 2012

The information that I have on this photo is limited. The band wagon is called “Old United States.” The date on the negative folder is faded, but I make it out to be 1908?

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Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus #2

| March 26, 2012

The info on this photo is dated 1905. Photo shot during a city parade. I am researching for the wagons name.

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Roll Over Tiger

| December 20, 2011

Clyde Beatty on the Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus,

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Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus 1932

| December 20, 2011

This ad used in the season of 1932.

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Hagenbeck & Wallace

| December 20, 2011

This ad was used in 1926.

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Allen King #2

| December 8, 2011

Allen King performed on such shows as Gollmar Bros, John Robinson. Hagenbeck & Wallace, Sparks, Sells Floto, and Al G. Barnes.

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Clyde Beatty

| November 11, 2011

Clyde Beatty on the Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus 1928.

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Clancy & Tommy

| May 14, 2011

They started Bentley Bros Circus in 1977 and it closed in 1999. By all reports they had a fine show. Tommy came a long way, from washing dishes on Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus learning ever act he could and then to owning a successful circus. Indeed he will be remembered as one of the great […]

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Tommy Bentley’s First Circus

| April 11, 2011

In Tommy’s younger years he traveled with many circuses including Hoxie, Kelly Miller and many others,  but Hagenbeck & Wallace is where he got his start. He ran away from home at a very young age. A large tent attracted his attention and it was a circus….his first job was washing dishes on the Hagenbeck […]

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The Hanneford Family

| July 7, 2010

It is said that since 1915 there has not been a season without a Hanneford appearing in one or in part of a leading American circus including their own shows.  “Poodles Hanneford” is the third from the left, His mother is standing to his left.

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