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From: "Linda Carpenter" <>
Subject: Re: [CIRCUS-FOLK] Enos in America
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:07:06 -0500
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Did you know that Dover Publications has a book called American Circus
Posters [in full color] with 10x14 size pages of full color posters. In it
there are 4 Sells Brother and 1 Forepaugh & Sells. The book was relatively
inexpensive, about $10 if I remember. Most of the posters are RBB&B. Just
thought I would mention it.

Linda Carpenter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlotte Kaufman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [CIRCUS-FOLK] Enos in America


> I would love to know almost anything about the Sells-Floto
> Circus. My participants go back a lot farther than those I've
> seen on the list.
>
> My great grandfather had his own small circus traveling through
> Nebraska, Illiois, Kansas....until he joined Cole Brothers and
> Sells-Floto around 1900. His sons carried on with their own
> little dog and pony show: The Hobson Brothers Circus, but this
> venture apparently didn't last too long with it disbanding in the early
> 1900s. Only one of them continued with Ringling Brothers where
> he trained horses and his wife was a "butterfly girl". They left the
> circus in the 1940s.
>
> Would love to have any information on the early Sells-Floto and
> Cole Brothers circuses.
>
> Charlotte
>
>
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