Dancing did not provide steady income, so Barbara joined the Ringling Brothers Circus. Then, because she didn't want to travel with the circus, she took a job in Baltimore, selling cosmetics.

an assistant librarian at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Baraboo was the winter quarters of the five Ringling brothers — Al, Alf, Auto, John and Charles — from 1886 to 1918.

Sons of poor immigrants in the Midwest, the Ringling Brothers expanded within a decade from a small regional circus to a large traveling circus across the country, and ultimately bought Barnum and ...

The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling clown corps might be slightly higher than winning the lottery. But not by a whole lot. More than 4,000 clown ...

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus could take the places of the clowns we already have ...

and in particular one famous circus, the one immortalised as “The Greatest Show on Earth”: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is hanging its hat for the last time this weekend.

To them, it might have seemed effortless. But these highly trained performers for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus told the children watching on Wednesday such feats of aerial grace ...

The tiger shot in Atlanta was a former star of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus before it went closed A tiger shot and killed after attacking a dog on Wednesday was revealed to be one of ...

1884 — The Ringling Brothers Circus begins as a travelling performance. 1887 — The official Ringling touring show becomes the “Ringling Bros. United Monster Shows, Great Double Circus ...

Nestled in the heart of Sarasota lies a hidden treasure that’s sure to captivate the entire family – The Ringling circus museum ... the original Ringling Brothers Corporation.