Title: Big top burning
Description: Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.
Subjects: Arson, Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Dead, Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944, Fires, Case studies, Identification, Juvenile literature, History, Ringling brothers and barnum and bailey circus, Fire, juvenile literature, Dead, juvenile literature, Connecticut, history, Connecticut, juvenile literature
Places: Connecticut, Hartford, Hartford (Conn.)
Time periods: 20th century