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Ringling Bros shows : Hillary Long who puts his skates upon his head and wears his hat upon his feet while accomplishing apparently impossible stunts

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Title: Ringling Bros shows : Hillary Long who puts his skates upon his head and wears his hat upon his feet while accomplishing apparently impossible stunts
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
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 circus acrobat Hillary Long performing two stunts upside down: walking down stairs on his head with a top hat on his feet at left, and a stop-like-motion view of Long skating down a ramp with roller skates on his head while a man in white suit watches in a vignette at right.
Probable date based on printer's job number in item text. "18-R-220"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1917 by / The / Strobridge / Litho. Co. / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right corner of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 77.79 x 104.46 cm (30 5/8 x 41 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000056
385967
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2035
Language: English
Subject: Ringling Brothers
Long, Hillary, 1884-1930--Pictorial works
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1910-1920. (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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