Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : strange and savage tribes : a glimpse of the great menagerie tent, showing the loose led animals and grand ethnological congress
Image of a tented circus arena with spectators viewing Asian and African performers who form the "Grand Ethnological Congress," with models of native housing structures and flags labeled "Sikhs" and "Singalese," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include elephants, camels, cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, horses, zebras, bison, and alpacas. "B. 53"--text, top right of image. "Copyright 1894 by / The Strobridge Lth. Co. Cinti & New York"--text, bottom center of image. "The world's grandest, largest, best, amusement institution."--text, centered below image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.52 x 96.84 cm (30 1/8 x 38 1/8 in.)
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
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