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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : first American appearance the great Hungarian riders the "Konyot" family absolutely the world's foremost equestrians

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Title: Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : first American appearance the great Hungarian riders the "Konyot" family absolutely the world's foremost equestrians
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 the two female and four male members of the Konyot family of equestrians performing two simultaneous acts balancing on the back of a moving horse in a tented circus ring, with a top central vignette of a formal group portrait of the troupe.
"'09 - B - No. - 211"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1909 by / The Strobridge Litho Co / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.52 x 101.12 cm (30 1/8 x 39 13/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001316
418269
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2178
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Advertising--Circus
Animal trainers--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Horsemen and horsewomen--Pictorial works
Horses--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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