Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus – A Grave Interest

Remembering a Circus Tragedy

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Post published:June 21, 2013
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One more week before the hand brace comes off - so here is a post from 2011 about the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Tragedy, which happened 95 years ago this week. Showmen’s…

A Circus Tragedy and Showmen’s Rest

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Post published:June 24, 2011
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Mourning Elephant Showmen’s Rest is the nations’ most well known cemetery for circus artists and performers. It was created in 1916 when the Showmen’s League of America purchased a plot…