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Al G. Barnes - Sells-Floto and John Robinson combined circuses : Janet May world's foremost aerial gymnaste in thrilling one-arm planges

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Title: Al G. Barnes - Sells-Floto and John Robinson combined circuses : Janet May world's foremost aerial gymnaste in thrilling one-arm planges
Creator: Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
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 aerial gymnast Janet May, upside down, performing a one-arm plange in a tented circus ring high above an audience.
Probable date based on only year the circus was called the Al G. Barnes-Sells Floto & John Robinson Combined Circuses. "Litho. in U.S.A."--text, bottom left margin. "Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co. Erie, Pa. No. 41-942-5"--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 103.51 x 71.12 cm (40 3/4 x 28 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000076
387727
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2051
Language: English
Subject: Al G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus
Sells-Floto Circus
May, Janet (Aerialist)--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Al G. Barnes - Sells-Floto Circus & John Robinson Combined Circuses
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1930-1940. (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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