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Title: The Barnum & Bailey latest and greatest thriller the balloon horse Jupiter
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1909
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 two hot-air balloon ascension acts each with the same female equestrian on horseback rising on a platform attached to a balloon; fireworks in background.
"09-B-213"--text, upper right margin. "Copyright 1909 by / The / Strobridge / Litho. Co. / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right of image. "in his Sensational Ascension Act with a Gorgeous Pyrotechnic Display at Every Performance of the Greatest Show on Earth."--text, continuation of title, lower left of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 100.97 x 76.2 cm (39 3/4 x 30 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000018
385930
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1840
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Horsemen and horsewomen--Pictorial works
Hot air balloons--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1900-1910. (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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