Mighty Haag Circus was started by American entrepreneur Ernest Haag in Shreveport, Louisiana. His circus toured continuously for over 40 years, from 1891 to 1938. During these years, the circus used a
Ernest Haag poster, June 27, 1911
Mighty Haag Circus in 1912
Mighty Haag Circus elephants: Tip, Alice and Babe in 1913. Tip and Alice worked in the Circus for more than 30 years. Alice would pick up Ruby Haag in her mouth
June 1909: a newspaper ad for the Mighty Haag Railroad Shows, appearing in Johnson City, near Spartanburg, South Carolina
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, or simply Ringling, is an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessors have run shows from 1871, with
A Bali tiger with its tamer, Rose Flanders Bascom, in Ringling Bros (c. 1915)
Whiteface clowns Lou Jacobs and Paul Jerome (c. 1930-35)
An advertisement for the Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1900
A poster from 1898, advertising a "troupe of very remarkable trained pigs"