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Circus animals

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  • Always on the move... : Glaxo antibiotic products are inexpensive to stock and always on the move from your shelves ...
  • A man exhibiting a counting horse with an unidentified object underneath. Engraving, 1785.
  • Two circus elephants performing to a crowd by drinking and eating from a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • Drury Lane Theatre, London: royal visitors looking at animals in enclosures. Lithograph by W. Taylor.
  • The trade unmasked : brutalities in animal training / Our Dumb Friends' League.
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    A man exhibiting a counting horse with an unidentified object underneath. Engraving, 1785.

    | Date: 1785 | Reference: 4002i
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    A street entertainer holding his performing poodle on a leash. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.

    Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833. | Date: 4 June 1816 | Reference: 44034i
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    Two circus elephants performing to a crowd by drinking and eating from a table. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 39838i
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    Always on the move... : Glaxo antibiotic products are inexpensive to stock and always on the move from your shelves ...

    | Date: [1957?]
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    The wonder book of freaks and animals in the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth : 1898.

    | Date: 1898
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