SFGirlByBay | Substack
during its heyday, the american circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling american circuses performed for audiences of up to 14,000 per show and crisscrossed the country on 20,000 miles of railroad in one season alone. taschen publishing has a beautiful coffee table book entitled circus chronicling the wild and woolly circus industry / sfgirlbybay
