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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : Déry the most intricate and difficult balancing act in the world. : the 3 Lienerts sensational act the promenade on the horizontal mirror. : The 3 Arleys marvelous act performing the feats exactly as shown in the picture

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Title: The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : Déry the most intricate and difficult balancing act in the world. : the 3 Lienerts sensational act the promenade on the horizontal mirror. : The 3 Arleys marvelous act performing the feats exactly as shown in the picture
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
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 three different acrobatic acts being performed before spectators under a circus tent: two male acrobats balancing on a stack of tables, three female circus performers standing upside down on a mirror suspended from the ceiling, and six male acrobats performing balancing acts with poles; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey in upper left corner.
"14-B-204"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1914 by / The / Strobridge / Litho Co / Cincinnati & New York"--text, lower left.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 73.34 x 99.06 cm (28 7/8 x 39 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000968
385986
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2171
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Bailey, James Anthony, 1847-1906--Portraits
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891--Portraits
Acrobats--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus owners--Pictorial works
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--Pictorial works
Barnum & Bailey
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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