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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus presenting the greatest educational feature in amusement history : direct from the African jungles - herd of the smallest full grown pigmy elephants on the face of the globe!

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Title: Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus presenting the greatest educational feature in amusement history : direct from the African jungles - herd of the smallest full grown pigmy elephants on the face of the globe!
Creator: Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
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 and a group of seven boys standing with a full-grown elephant and five pigmy elephants in a grassy field.
Probable date based on year the pigmy elephant herd was featured in the circus. "Litho. in U.S.A."--text, bottom left margin. "Erie Litho. & Prg. Co. Erie, Pa. -15350-"--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 104.78 x 68.58 cm (41 1/4 x 27 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000041
385952
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2020
Language: English
Subject: Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Clowns--Pictorial works
Elephants--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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