Raynors HCA 2019-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/30/2019
Wonderful color printed letterhead for “The American Circus Corporation, Chicago Ill. “ The front page allows space for correspondence, the other 3 pages are insets of the various circus acts highlighting the most noted performers and owners such as Buffalo Bill, Otto Floyd, Gollmer Brothers and others. In the glory years between 1922 and 1929, the American Circus Corporation owned five different circuses with three of them staying here in Peru, Indiana. There were hundreds of horses and ponies in stables and pastures each winter. Camels, llamas and zebras grazed in the same fields as the horses. Forty plus elephants were here every winter. Springtime found them down in the river frolicking in mud and water. Lions and tigers and bears, called Peru home every winter. The polar bears had a pool to play in. There were monkeys, great apes, reptiles, exotic birds, giraffes and more animals from around the world.
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