Image of a stop-motion-like view of Achille Philion balancing on a ball on a beam and down a spiral tower, with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Philion in the upper left corner and a vignette of Philion progressing down the spiral at right. "2656 / Copyright 1899 by / The Courier Co. / of Buffalo."--text, bottom right corner of image. "The most perilous performance ever devised by mortal man. Upon a globe twenty-eight inches in diameter the fearless Philion ascends and descends a spiral tower fifty feet high on a roadway only sixteen inches wide, and mounted upon this unsteady footing, he ventures out upon a slender cable forty feet from the ground, performing the most difficult feats on his dangerous journey, finishing his wonderful enveloped in flames and fireworks."--text, upper right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.84 x 109.86 cm (30 1/4 x 43 1/4 in.)
Philion, Achille--Portraits Acrobats--Pictorial works Advertising--Circus Circus--United States Circus performers--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Circus posters--1890-1900. (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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