Image of circus animals and livestock jumping over fences in the ring of a circus tent but balking at a barbed wire fence in an advertisement for Glidden Steel Barb Wire manufactured by I.L. Ellwood & Company of De Kalb, Illinois; people in the audience are shown leaving with enthusiastic intentions of buying Glidden fencing at bottom left and right, including a woman and a Chinese man; bust-length portrait of J. F. Glidden inset at top left. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; Shober & Carqueville operated under that name from 1877-1895. "Shober & Carqueville Lith. Co. Chicago."--text, bottom right margin. "The Greatest Show on Earth. They Won't Jump the Glidden Barb Fence Mnfgd. by I.L. Ellwood & Co, De Kalb, Ill."--text, center of image. "For Sale By"--text, bottom left margin. Registration marks visible in margins.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.34 x 66.04 cm (21 x 26 in.)
Animal trainers--Pictorial works Circus--Pictorial works Circus animals--Pictorial works Circus performers--Pictorial works Livestock--Pictorial works I.L. Ellwood & Co Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Proofs. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Agriculture Large Size Implements & Supplies The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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