If you know your circus history, you know Jack LeClaire. LeClaire was a famous clown with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey beginning in the 1910s and lasting until the late 1940s.

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a collection of circus memorabilia dating ... Here are some colorful posters advertising animal acts, showing what people wanted ...

Photoshop CS6 tutorial showing how to make a custom, vintage, circus poster. Part 1 shows how to make the finished poster ...

Maybe not as popular, was "Quackey," the tallest clown in the world. In the photo above he looks over Donald Kowell's "littlest circus in the world." Kowell made the small circus bigger that year ...

What you probably need to get you through your day is a gallery of vintage clown photos from Los Angeles ... in L.A. and range from professional circus clowns to hobbyists.