and Barnum & Bailey Circus is drawing ... Some milestones in the history of the circus: 1841 — Phineas Taylor Barnum buys Scudder’s American Museum in New York City and renames it Barnum ...

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus could take the places of the clowns we already have ...