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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : Pallenberg's wonder bears the only bicycle-riding, roller-skating, acrobatic bears in the world

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Title: Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : Pallenberg's wonder bears the only bicycle-riding, roller-skating, acrobatic bears in the world
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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 male animal trainer and seven bears performing various acts under a circus tent including roller skating, bicycling, tightrope walking, and balancing on a ball.
"15-B-237"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1915 by / The Strobridge Litho Co / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.32 x 73.66 cm (19 13/16 x 29 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001314
418267
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2176
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Advertising--Circus
Animal trainers--Pictorial works
Bears--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus animals--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
Relation: priJLC_ENT_000044

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