Image of a collage of three images of a costumed male animal trainer in a circus ring with seals consisting of an image of four seals balancing balls while two of the seals ride on the backs of horses and one sits in a horse-drawn carriage, at right; an image of the trainer watching one seal complete a flip in a stop-motion-like view, at upper left; and an image of the trainer watching one seal balance a lamp on its nose while sitting on a ball while another seal balances a cross-shaped item on its nose, at lower left; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey in upper left corner. "11-B-No. 219"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1911 by / The / Strobridge / Litho. Co. / Cincinnati & New York."--text, bottom left of image.
Barnum and Bailey Advertising--Circus Animal trainers--Pictorial works Circus--United States Circus animals--Pictorial works Circus owners--Pictorial works Ethnic costume--Pictorial works Seals (Animals)--Pictorial works 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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