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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus : presenting a stupendous new congress of amazing world-wide features including giraffe-neck women from Burma

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Title: Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus : presenting a stupendous new congress of amazing world-wide features including giraffe-neck women from Burma
Creator: Central Ptg. and Illinois Litho. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
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 six Padaung women of Burma wearing neck rings with stretched earlobes and jewelry.
Probable date based on year the women were featured in circus. "B-132"--text, bottom left margin. "Central Ptg. and Illinois Litho. Co., Chicago, U. S. A."--text, bottom right margin. "The Greatest Educational Attraction The World Has Ever Known!"--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 73.66 x 108.59 cm (29 x 42 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000039
385951
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2017
Language: English
Subject: Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows
Padaung (Burmese people)--Women--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Circus performers--Pictorial works
Circus performers--Burma--Pictorial works
Curiosities and wonders--Pictorial works
Ethnic costume--Pictorial works
Jewelry--Pictorial works
Women circus performers--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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