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Title
Wallace Bros. World’s Largest Circus
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of three female acrobats performing in the air with a whiteface clown in the right foreground; date sheet for a July 4, [1961], show in Lorain, Ohio, pasted below image.
Probable date based on month and day provided in item text and history of circus; the Wallace Bros. Circus had a show in Lorain, Ohio, on July 4, 1961. "Lorain / QKEW Gardens on Colo. Ave. / Sponsored By: Lorain Youth Center Boy and Girls Club / Afternoon / and Night / Tue. July 4"--text, bottom, date sheet.
Type
image
Extent
1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 125.1 x 35.56 cm (49 1/4 x 14 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ENT_000142
387732
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2139
Language
English
Subject
Wallace Bros. Circus (1961)
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Clowns--Pictorial works
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1950-1975. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1960-1970. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Circus
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation
priJLC_ENT_000143 ; priJLC_ENT_000144 ; priJLC_ENT_000145

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