ELEPHANT Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus FLORIDA CIRCUS

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SMUDGES ON BACK   Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus FLORIDA CIRCUS 1939 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus FLORIDA CIRCUS
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
, also known as the
Ringling Bros. Circus
,
Barnum & Bailey Circus
,
Ringling Bros.
,
Barnum & Bailey
or simply
Ringling
was an American traveling
circus
company billed as
The Greatest Show on Earth
. It and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. Known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, the circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by
P. T. Barnum
and
James Anthony Bailey
, was merged with the
Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows
. The
Ringling brothers
had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.
After 1957, the circus no longer exhibited under its own portable "
big top
" tents, instead using permanent venues such as sports stadiums and arenas. In 1967,
Irvin Feld
and his brother Israel, along with Houston Judge
Roy Hofheinz
, bought the circus from the Ringling family. In 1971, the Felds and Hofheinz sold the circus to
Mattel
, buying it back from the toy company in 1981. Since the death of Irvin Feld in 1984, the circus had been a part of
Feld Entertainment
, an international entertainment firm headed by his son
Kenneth Feld
, with its headquarters in
Ellenton, Florida
.
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