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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth. : Section 3 - of the new half million dollar grand street pageant

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Title: The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth. : Section 3 - of the new half million dollar grand street pageant
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1903
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 procession of horse-drawn floats in a street pageant put on by the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth featuring representations of Europe, Africa, and America with statues and people in costume.
"Copyright 1903 by The Strobridge Litho Co. Cincinnati & New York."--text, bottom right of image. "The most gorgeous open air spectacle of monumental magnificence ever beheld. The world's largest, grandest, best, amusement institution."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.2 x 98.43 cm (30 x 38 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_004726
503162
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5458
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Circus
Barnum and Bailey
Circus parades--Pictorial works
Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works
Horses--Pictorial works
Parades--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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