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[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0585]

Description: Caption: "The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus entertained more than 600 inmates at the Federal Correction Institution at El Reno on Friday in an effort to break the monotony of prison life." Three clowns stand in prison yard with guard tower in the background.
Date: June 26, 1981
Creator: Longstreath, David
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0600]

Description: Caption: "Only during the third week of June is such a sight - elephants on an Oklahoma City street - something other than a tall tale." A long line of elephants walk down the street with horses and a carriage behind them and a police car drives next to them.
Date: June 19, 1985
Creator: McDaniel, David
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0584]

Description: Caption: "SCRUB-DOWN Elephants, parked in a no-parking zone on the east side of the Myriad, get a rinsing from a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus worker." "Yep just another day at the elephant wash. East side of Myriad as circus personnel wash elephants."
Date: June 20, 1990
Creator: Longstreath, David
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0582]

Description: Caption: "A circus worker gets his first glimpse of Oklahoma City Wednesday as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, complete with animals and acrobats, pulls into town on a train from Philadelphia." Man looks out of train door.
Date: June 18, 1980
Creator: Grier, Bob
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0592]

Description: Caption: "A circus parade stirred excitement today as hundreds of youngsters and their parents saw a herd of elephants plod from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey train into the horse barn at the State Fair Arena." Elephants walking in a line while they hold the tails of the elephants in front of them with their trunks.
Date: June 24, 1969
Creator: Fisher, Don
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0571]

Description: Caption: "PONDEROUS PACHYDERMS took a long cool drink Tuesday prior to their 4 p.m. performance with Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus in Stockyards Coliseum." Elephants drink water out of barrels.
Date: October 22, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0591]

Description: Caption: "The Greatest Show on Earth" arrives in Oklahoma City." A large group of people watch and take pictures of train pulling "The Greatest Show on Earth" while a man is about to exit the train car.
Date: June 29, 1966
Creator: Traverse, Austin
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0578]

Description: Caption: "BIG ELEPHANT lumbering out of a train and parading down Reno to Stockyards Coliseum were ready evidence Thursday that Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus was in town." A group of people gather around a large elephant.
Date: October 19, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0587]

Description: Caption: "A fun-loving 8-month-old girl leopard is a big pet i a small train compartment, but it's much nicer to travel here with her human mother, Christiane Samel, than in cages with other circus animals." Woman holds a baby leopard.
Date: June 19, 1947
Creator: Miller, Joe
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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