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Title: Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. : Capt. Astronaut the human projectile
Creator: Butler, Roland, 1887-1961, artist
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 a man being shot out of a canon in a tented circus arena with spectators in the grandstands in the background; "World's Largest Circus" circular logo at lower right of image.
Probable full name of artist supplied by cataloger; probable date based on performer history; circus performer Luis Munoz performed as Captain Astronaut for the Clyde-Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus beginning in 1961. "R.B."--text, artist's initials, bottom left of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 53.34 x 70.96 cm (21 x 27 15/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001309
412887
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2173
Language: English
Subject: Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Advertising--Circus
Cannons--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
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

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