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Title: John Robinson's Circus : Miss Billie Ward world's champion lady aerial gymnast
Creator: Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
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 female aerialist Billie Ward hanging upside down from a rope in a tented circus arena; vignette of head-and-shoulders portrait of Billie Ward at upper right.
Probable date approximated by cataloger based on the year of newspaper articles listing Billie Ward as a feature of the circus. "Erie Litho & Ptg. Co.-10517-1"--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 69.53 x cm (27 3/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001310
418264
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2172
Language: English
Subject: John Robinson's Circus
Ward, Billie (Gymnast)--Portraits
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1920-1930. (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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