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Cole Bros. Circus : something new! direct from England "boxing horses" first time in America

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Title: Cole Bros. Circus : something new! direct from England "boxing horses" first time in America
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
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 central vignette of two horses with shorts and boxing gloves in a ring, and image in the lower half of the poster of clowns preparing the horses like boxers to get back into the ring.
Probable date based on circus history; the Cole Bros. 1942 Route and Program book, page 29, lists boxing horses as "direct from England Cole Brothers Presents for the first time in America..."
Type: image
Extent: 1 photomechanical : color printed ; overall 73.03 x 52.07 cm (28 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000156
387784
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2151
Language: English
Subject: Cole Bros. Circus
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus animals--Pictorial works
Horses--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Circus posters--1940-1950. (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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