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Title: Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros. world’s largest circus
Creator: Globe Poster Corp., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
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 one male and two female aerialists swinging from trapezes, one female aerialist swinging from a ribbon held in her mouth, and a female tightrope walker balancing blindfolded on a high wire; date sheet for a Tuesday, August 1st show in Jamestown, New York, pasted below image.
Probable date approximated by cataloger based on similar advertisements. "Litho U.S.A."--text, bottom left margin under date sheet. "Globe Poster, Corp. Chicago, Ill."--text, bottom right margin under date sheet. "Clyde / Beatty / - Cole / Bros. / Circus / Jamestown / Falconer Circus Ground / Auspices: Falconer Lions Club / Matinee & Night / Tue. Aug. 1 / World Largest Circus"--text, bottom centered.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 91.12 x 106.68 cm (35 7/8 x 42 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000089
387713
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2090
Language: English
Subject: Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1950-1975. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1960-1970. (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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