Nation's library celebrates history of circus arts with new archival acquisitions from Feld Entertainment's Ringling Bros.

and Barnum & Bailey Circus ... be moving to a new, 2,500-acre habitat at White Oak in 2021. Photograph by KERRY SHERIDAN/AFP, Getty Images About a third of all Asian elephants live in captivity.

and Barnum & Bailey Circus is closing for good in 2017 (it made its final stop in Richmond in March). But 45 years ago, in the then-new Richmond Coliseum, the circus was quite the draw.