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80th season Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey "the greatest show on earth"

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Title: 80th season Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey "the greatest show on earth"
Creator: Chicago Show Printing Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
1946
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1950
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1953
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1955
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 giraffes peering over a billboard with the title against a red background.
Probable date based on advertisement for the circus in the Billboard April 22, 1950, issue, page 59: "in this 80th season of The Greatest Show on Earth." "Litho in U.S.A. [space] C.S.P. Co."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 52.39 x 68.9 cm (20 5/8 x 27 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000068
385979
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2046
Language: English
Subject: Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Advertising--Circus
Animals--Pictorial works
Billboards--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Giraffe--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1950-1975. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1950-1960. (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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