Photographer Harry Quillen loved the circus, and during the 1940s, he enthusiastically captured the light-hearted spirit of the traveling show with his large format camera. After his death in 1972, his work was donated to the Circus World Museum in Wisconsin, but amongst his photographs of the aerialists, animals, clowns, and daily life in the tents and on the stages of the Clyde Beatty Circus...
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