A hand-colored postcard view of circus headquarters in Bridgeport, with Ringling branding and railway cars visible in front of the buildings.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: original work published before 1931. Postmark is supplied by catalog metadata, not visible on this front-view file. Caption explicitly names Ringling Bros.; included as later ownership context, not relabeled Barnum & Bailey.
Source: Unidentified postcard maker; Wikimedia Commons, sourced from a postcard listing that reported a 1911 postmark.
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Bridgeport: Ringling Bros. Circus Headquarters postcard A hand-colored postcard view of circus headquarters in Bridgeport, with Ringling branding and railway cars visible in front of the buildings. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PostcardBridgeportCTRinglingBrosHQ1911_(cropped).jpg Date: 1911 reported postmark; view undated Postmark is supplied by catalog metadata, not visible on this front-view file. Caption explicitly names Ringling Bros.; included as later ownership context, not relabeled Barnum & Bailey.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Barnum & Bailey Circus: Bridgeport and New Haven, SGC-CIRCUS-024, CIRCUS-007, “Bridgeport: Ringling Bros. Circus Headquarters postcard.” Source: Unidentified postcard maker; Wikimedia Commons, sourced from a postcard listing that reported a 1911 postmark.. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PostcardBridgeportCTRinglingBrosHQ1911_(cropped).jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.