This archival footage from the 1940s captures the arrival, setup, and behind-the-scenes life of a traveling circus in a small Minnesota town. The film documents the unloading of circus wagons, ...

It took only one spark to destroy an entire circus. On Feb. 20, 1940, a fire destroyed the main building of the Cole Brothers & Robbins circus winter headquarters in Rochester in Fulton County. The ...

Tom Ewalt and Ena the elephant. Ewalt's circus was based in Geneva, Nebraska, during the mid-1940s and entertained small-town crowds in eight states. Editor's note: This piece originally was published ...