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- Wixom Brothers Great Show at Ithaca, Michigan Fairgrounds, August 18, 1900 - Small traveling circuses in the late 19th and early 20th century arrived in towns with great fanfare. Performers, animals and musicians paraded down streets. This free publicity, circus owners hoped, would arouse the interest of the residents and potential customers. This photograph shows the Wixom Brothers Circus marching to the fairgrounds in Ithaca, Michigan.
- August 18, 1900
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Wixom Brothers Great Show at Ithaca, Michigan Fairgrounds, August 18, 1900
Small traveling circuses in the late 19th and early 20th century arrived in towns with great fanfare. Performers, animals and musicians paraded down streets. This free publicity, circus owners hoped, would arouse the interest of the residents and potential customers. This photograph shows the Wixom Brothers Circus marching to the fairgrounds in Ithaca, Michigan.
- Wixom Brothers Great Show, Brooklyn, Michigan, September 1902 -
- September 17, 1902
- Collections - Artifact
Wixom Brothers Great Show, Brooklyn, Michigan, September 1902
- Bandwagon from Mat Wixom's Great Show -
- 1874 - 1907
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Bandwagon from Mat Wixom's Great Show
- Performers from Mat Wixom's Great Show, 1891-1893 -
- 1891-1893
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Performers from Mat Wixom's Great Show, 1891-1893
- Mat. Wixom's Great R.R. Show, 1893 - Martin Van Buren "Mat" Wixom was a Michigan-based showman. He and his sons operated a small, regional circus that traveled to mid-Michigan's rural communities between 1874 and 1908. Wixom would create a new gimmick for the circus every year to fuel the audience's anticipation. In 1893, he put up the Great Railroad Show and traveled on a 3-car train throughout the region.
- 1893
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Mat. Wixom's Great R.R. Show, 1893
Martin Van Buren "Mat" Wixom was a Michigan-based showman. He and his sons operated a small, regional circus that traveled to mid-Michigan's rural communities between 1874 and 1908. Wixom would create a new gimmick for the circus every year to fuel the audience's anticipation. In 1893, he put up the Great Railroad Show and traveled on a 3-car train throughout the region.
- Mat. Wixom's Great R.R. Show, 1893 - Martin Van Buren "Mat" Wixom was a Michigan-based showman. He and his sons operated a small, regional circus that traveled to mid-Michigan's rural communities between 1874 and 1908. Wixom would create a new gimmick for the circus every year to fuel the audience's anticipation. In 1893, he put up the Great Railroad Show and traveled on a 3-car train throughout the region.
- 1893
- Collections - Artifact
Mat. Wixom's Great R.R. Show, 1893
Martin Van Buren "Mat" Wixom was a Michigan-based showman. He and his sons operated a small, regional circus that traveled to mid-Michigan's rural communities between 1874 and 1908. Wixom would create a new gimmick for the circus every year to fuel the audience's anticipation. In 1893, he put up the Great Railroad Show and traveled on a 3-car train throughout the region.
- Wixom Brothers Great Show, September 1902 -
- September 17, 1902
- Collections - Artifact
Wixom Brothers Great Show, September 1902
- Advertisement for Mat Wixom's Great Show, from the "Wixom Record," August 20, 1897 -
- August 20, 1897
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Advertisement for Mat Wixom's Great Show, from the "Wixom Record," August 20, 1897
- Performers from Wixom Brothers Great Show, 1902 -
- 1902
- Collections - Artifact
Performers from Wixom Brothers Great Show, 1902
- Pete and Louise Lindermann with Wixom Brothers Great Show, 1907 -
- 1907
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Pete and Louise Lindermann with Wixom Brothers Great Show, 1907