Image of spectators in a large tent viewing zoo animals, with animals including rhinoceroses, lions, hippopotamuses, polar bears, giraffes, and seals in caged circus wagons, and animals including cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, oxen, zebras, horses, llamas, deer, camels, and elephants in a center roped area. Probable date based on printer's job number in item text. "1903 B. No. 79"--text, upper right margin. "Copyright 1900 by / The / Strobridge / Litho Co / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right of image. "The world's largest, grandest, best, amusement institution."--text, continuation of title, bottom caption.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in.)
Barnum and Bailey Advertising--Circus Circus--United States Circus animals--Pictorial works Menageries--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc) Circus posters--1900-1910. (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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