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Title
Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : the greatest high air exhibition ever presented in the world : the 10 Seigrist-Silbons the 5 La Mar Troupe and the 5 marvelous flying Neapolitans in a superb number
Creator
Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1909
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 twenty-four male and female aerialists performing various acts in midair from bars and trapezes outdoors, with a countryside landscape and colored sky in the background.
"09 B No. 207"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1909 by / The / Strobridge / Litho Co / Cincinnati & New York"--text, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 73.18 x 98.43 cm (28 13/16 x 38 3/4 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ENT_001325
418278
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2187
Language
English
Subject
Barnum and Bailey
Advertising--Circus
Aerialists--Pictorial works
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--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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