Fire at Circus in Connecticut
Survivors watch as smoke rises from the the big main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, in Hartford, Connecticut, which went up in flames causing the deaths of 127 people with many more injured. At left is the menagerie tent which escaped destruction.

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July 06, 1944
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- Tent,
- 1940-1949,
- 30-39 Years,
- Accidents and Disasters,
- Adult,
- Archival,
- Arts Culture and Entertainment,
- Boys,
- Car,
- Child,
- Circus,
- Circus Tent,
- Crowd of People,
- Death,
- Girls,
- Hartford - Connecticut,
- Horizontal,
- Large,
- Men,
- Mid Adult,
- Mid Adult Men,
- Mid Adult Women,
- Moving Up,
- People,
- Photography,
- Physical Injury,
- Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus,
- Smoke,
- Survival,
- Watching,