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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey : The great Alzanas world renowned high wire daredevils

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Title: Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey : The great Alzanas world renowned high wire daredevils
Creator: Freeland, Forrest Dean, -1975, artist
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
1943
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1952
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 male high-wire walker Harold Alzana performing two acts on a high wire tightrope including one with two female aerialists suspended from a bicycle; "The Greatest Show on Earth" globe logo at lower left; one layer of a photomechanical print of a portion of a figure wearing a tuxedo and top hat started on verso.
Full artist name supplied by cataloger; probable date based on year the Great Alzanas joined the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey show. "FF"--text, artist's signature, bottom right corner.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 52.07 x 68.9 cm (20 1/2 x 27 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000067
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2007
Language: English
Subject: Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Alzana, Harold, (1918-2001)--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Tightrope walking--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1940-1950. (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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