Nat-Reiss Southern Carnival Co., Los Angeles. 1904.

ID: 4603 ~ Source: Courtesy the Huntington Digital Library.
This file appears in: Nat Reiss and the Spokane Carnival

When not at its Spokane base, the Nat-Reiss carnival traveled across the western states.

This file appears in: Nat Reiss and the Spokane Carnival

By Joanne Percy
Carnivals and Circuses were big business in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Barnum and Bailey’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ and the popular Ringling Brothers Circus were two of the biggest traveling shows in America. Railway expansion…