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I don't know what the connection with this Family of eight has with the Circus.
...guessing here...
Mom & Dad on the left, with Daughter, then twin Sons, then youngest Son, Mother-In-Law, and Spinster Aunt on the right.
From WikipediA:
Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows was a circus founded in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling brothers: Albert, August, Otto, Alfred T., Charles, John, and Henry. The Ringling brothers were sons of a German immigrant, August Frederick Rungeling, who simplified his name to Ringling once in America. In 1907 Ringling Bros. acquired the Barnum & Bailey Circus, merging them in 1919 to become Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, promoted as The Greatest Show on Earth.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
