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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : a partial display of the new enormous menagerie & characteristic groupings of strange and savage people

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Title: The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : a partial display of the new enormous menagerie & characteristic groupings of strange and savage people
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1894
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 a tented circus arena with spectators viewing Asian and African performers who form the "Grand Ethnological Congress," with models of their native housing structures and flags labeled "Algerians," "Australians," "Burmese," "Siamese," "Dyaks," and "Cossacks," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include star chimpanzees "Chiko and Johanna," giraffes, tigers, rhinoceroses, lions, polar bears, hippopotamuses, and bears.
"B.43"--text, upper right of image. "Copyright 1894 by / The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cin'ti & NY"--text, lower right of image. "The world's grandest, largest, best, amusement institution."--text, bottom caption.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.84 x 102.24 cm (30 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000013
385925
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1834
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Ethnic costume--Pictorial works
Menageries--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1890-1900. (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_001321

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