A contemporary engraved overview of the Bridgeport winter quarters, with railway cars, large buildings and animals. The original printed caption uses the Barnum-London name.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: original work published before 1931. Printed engraving, not a photograph. Grayscale conversion removes color artifacts in the scan. Commons also identifies the image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_Quarters_of_the_Great_Barnum-London_Show.jpg Cropped from the source page. Rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise to make the original engraving upright. Grayscale derivative; no reconstruction or generated imagery.
Source: Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and City of Bridgeport, vol. 2 (Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886); Internet Archive digitization.
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Bridgeport: Winter Quarters of the Great Barnum-London Show A contemporary engraved overview of the Bridgeport winter quarters, with railway cars, large buildings and animals. The original printed caption uses the Barnum-London name. Source: https://archive.org/details/ahistoryoldtown01conngoog/page/n250/mode/1up Date: Published 1886; depicted date unknown Printed engraving, not a photograph. Grayscale conversion removes color artifacts in the scan. Commons also identifies the image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_Quarters_of_the_Great_Barnum-London_Show.jpg
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Silent Grounds Collective, Barnum & Bailey Circus: Bridgeport and New Haven, SGC-CIRCUS-024, CIRCUS-001, “Bridgeport: Winter Quarters of the Great Barnum-London Show.” Source: Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and City of Bridgeport, vol. 2 (Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886); Internet Archive digitization.. https://archive.org/details/ahistoryoldtown01conngoog/page/n250/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.