Did you know that Dover Publications has a book called American Circus Posters [in full color] with 10x14 size pages of full color posters. In it there are 4 Sells Brother and 1 Forepaugh & Sells. The book was relatively inexpensive, about $10 if I remember. Most of the posters are RBB&B. Just thought I would mention it. Linda Carpenter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlotte Kaufman" <charkauf1@earthlink.net> To: <CIRCUS-FOLK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [CIRCUS-FOLK] Enos in America > I would love to know almost anything about the Sells-Floto > Circus. My participants go back a lot farther than those I've > seen on the list. > > My great grandfather had his own small circus traveling through > Nebraska, Illiois, Kansas....until he joined Cole Brothers and > Sells-Floto around 1900. His sons carried on with their own > little dog and pony show: The Hobson Brothers Circus, but this > venture apparently didn't last too long with it disbanding in the early > 1900s. Only one of them continued with Ringling Brothers where > he trained horses and his wife was a "butterfly girl". They left the > circus in the 1940s. > > Would love to have any information on the early Sells-Floto and > Cole Brothers circuses. > > Charlotte > > > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >