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Walter L. Main 3 Ring Trained Wild Animal Shows : high wire artists : introducing the most difficult and dangerous feats ever devised by human ingenuity

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Title: Walter L. Main 3 Ring Trained Wild Animal Shows : high wire artists : introducing the most difficult and dangerous feats ever devised by human ingenuity
Creator: Riverside Printing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
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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 seven male and female high wire artists balancing on tightropes and holding Chinese umbrellas, with two men holding a table below one performer, and spectators watching in the background.
Probable date based on date supplied to copy of poster in the Billy Rose Theatre Division New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. "National Show Co. Inc., Operators"--text, top left corner. "2591"--text, bottom left corner. "Riverside / Printing Co. / Milwaukee"--text, logo, bottom left.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 107.95 x 73.98 cm (42 1/2 x 29 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000146
387779
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2143
Language: English
Subject: Walter L. Main Circus
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Tightrope walking--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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