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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : one group of the many superb and most sagacious stallions. The noblest & most beautiful horses, in original wise and graceful tricks

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Title: Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : one group of the many superb and most sagacious stallions. The noblest & most beautiful horses, in original wise and graceful tricks
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
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1900
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 male horse trainer performing with thirteen horses in a circus ring; portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at left.
Probable date approximated by cataloger. "29"--text, numbers in triangle, top right of image. "The / Strobridge Lith Co. / Cinti NY Lon"--text, bottom right of image. "The world's grandest, largest, best, amusement institution."--text, centered below image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall ? x 99.7 cm (30 x 39 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001319
418272
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2181
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Bailey, James Anthony, 1847-1906--Portraits
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891--Portraits
Advertising--Circus
Animal trainers--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Circus owners--Pictorial works
Horsemen and horsewomen--Pictorial works
Horses--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
Relation: priJLC_ENT_000002 ; priJLC_ENT_001317

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