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Cole Bros. Circus : blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile : world's largest traveling zoo

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Title: Cole Bros. Circus : blood sweating hippopotamus from the river Nile : world's largest traveling zoo
Creator: Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
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 hippopotamus in a cage with a gaping mouth; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Cole Bros. owners Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell in the upper left corner.
Probable date based on month and day in item text and circus history; Adkins was an owner of the circus from 1935 until his death in 1940. "Springfield / Twice Daily 2 and 8 P.M. / Thursday / June 10"--text, top margin. "Litho. in U. S. A."--text, bottom right margin. "Erie Litho and Prtg. Co. No. 41-258-5-3"--text, bottom right corner.
Type: image
Extent: 1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 56.52 x 36.2 cm (22 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000157
387783
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1759
Language: English
Subject: Cole Bros. Circus
Adkins, Jess H., 1886-1940--Portraits
Terrell, Zack, 1879-1954--Portraits
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Circus owners--Pictorial works
Hippopotamus--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1930-1940. (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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