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  Stanford White and Madison Square Garden, PBS  Television

April 1, 1891

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Madison Square Garden​

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Video Link: Diana at Madison Square Garden, listed below

Barnum & Bailey Circus Herald, 1891

Miss Lillie Meers

Snowstorm, by Childe Hassam, 1890

Madison Square Garden (pictured)

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN CIRCA1891

    Diana at Madison Square Garden PBS ​

          Master of American Sculpture-

            Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Lillie Meers

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Lillie and Luciano Pruna financed their own circuses and had many adventures with their new business. The Tatali Circus appeared in Cuba, Mexico, and South America.  The family found themselves in a new, wild, uncharted frontier.  

 “...a circus has so powerful a fascination that I do not think I could bring myself to leave it."

LILLIE MEERS 

                    Madison Square Garden 

 The Huntress Diana, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1891, was the crown of Madison Square Garden (Detail)

      THOUSANDS AT THE BIG CITY SHOW

       NEW PERFORMERS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN​​

April 1, 1891 ​

“The feature of the evening was the graceful bareback riding of Rose and Lillie Meers.  This was the first appearance in America of these famous women, and their daring work is said to be unequaled in circus annals.  It is perhaps the most finished performance that has been given to the show this season.  The size of the audience at both performances fully justifies the management in maintaining the highest order of circus work.”