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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : 1000 skits by 50 original clowns

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Title: Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : 1000 skits by 50 original clowns
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916
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 whiteface clown sitting with arms and legs spread, holding a hat; small vignette portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at upper left.
"16. B-180"--text, upper right margin. "Copyright 1916 by / The / Strobridge / Litho. Co. / Cincinnati & New York."--text, lower right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 72.71 x 97.79 cm (28 5/8 x 38 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000004
385916
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1745
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Bailey, James Anthony, 1847-1906--Portraits
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891--Portraits
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus owners--Pictorial works
Clowns--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1910-1920. (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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