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Here are some photos of Golden Age carnival sideshow bally platforms and banners. Soon we will display images of the most prominent sideshow banner artists of the Golden Age, including Johnny Meah, Jack Cripe, Fred Johnson, Al Renton, Snap Wyatt, and Jack Sigler. Visit Carl Hammer Gallery of Chicago for more insight into the banner artist's contribution to the deceptive arts. See our Sideshow Performers page for photos of various show people of the Golden Age. |
Sideshow Bally Platforms and Banners |
Veal Brother's European Wonder Show 1920 sideshow bally platform and bannerline |
Veal Brother's European Wonder Show 1920 sideshow bally platform |
Veal Brother's European Wonder Show 1920 sideshow banner "Electria" |
Clyde Beatty Circus Sideshow bally platform & entrance |
sideshow lecturer or talker (known as a "barker" to the general public) |
carnival snake show "King Reid Presents Death Valley Killers" |
sideshow girl show entrance & ticket booth c.1960s |
sideshow girl show entrance c.1960s |
Sideshow Mermaid Show ticket taker, platform & banners |
sideshow bally, ticket taker and the tip ("turning the tip") |
Sideshow Banner: "Third Sex Family, The Francos" |
circus sideshow bally platform, banners, performers & tip |
Dodson's Side Show, c.1920s |
"Ubangi Savages" Brockton County Fair, Mass. 1934 |
Hagen Brothers Circus Side Show c.1950s |
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Side Show |
Dailey Brothers Circus Museum bally platform |
girl show (or "hootch show") bally |
outside lecturer & four performers |
Coney Island Dreamland Sideshow |
Viking Giant on bally platform |
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Sides Show 1959 |
Pendleton, Oregon unidentified carnival & sideshow |
steps to performer's platform unknown carnival sideshow Mimi Garneau (left) |
sword swallower on bally platform unidentified sideshow |
World's Strangest Babies sideshow bannerline |
Betty Willis Vermont 1941 |
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