Image / Ringling Bros : Miss May Wirth somersaulting queen of the arena

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Title: Ringling Bros : Miss May Wirth somersaulting queen of the arena
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
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 Australian acrobat and equestrian May Wirth sitting on a horse in a tented circus arena, with a whiteface clown standing beside her, and a female acrobat somersaulting between two horses in a ring in the background with a standing male animal trainer nearby.
"17-R-206"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1917 by / The / Strobridge / Litho. Co. / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom left corner of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 101.28 x 75.25 cm (39 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000055
385966
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2034
Language: English
Subject: Ringling Brothers
Wirth, May, 1894-1978--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Clowns--Pictorial works
Horsemen and horsewomen--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1910-1920. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Circus
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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