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The Greatest Show best-seller "coffee-drinkers sitting at a bigNew York Times staff photographer Ernie Sisto took this photo in 1946 of kids peeking at a preview of "the greatest show on earth" at Madison Square Garden. "It began in 1871 as P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome," Lizette Alvarez wrote in The Times in April 2017. "Back when Prussia was still a kingdom and Jesse James was robbing banks." The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus "survived the Depression, two