Arthur Bros. Circus 1944 #4

Here's the big top being raised, it's about half way up the center poles, the canvas looks brand new. At left the pole wagon has the customary grooves on top in which the center poles rested. The show must have done very well since they went out on rails in 1945 taking advantage of the Hagenbeck-Wallace equipment that had been sitting out in California since it folded in 1938.