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Title: Barnum & Bailey’s new superb spectacle Cleopatra
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1912
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra reclining on pillows as she watches the arrival of Mark Antony and his soldiers; attendants and a leopard at her side and pyramids in background.
Barnum & Bailey presented this historical spectacle for at least one season in 1912 and the Strobridge Lithographing Company printed at least nineteen different poster designs advertising the production. "12-B-208"--text, upper right margin. "Copyright 1912 by / The / Strobridge / Litho Co / Cincinnati & New York"--text, lower right. "Cleopatra, Egypt's Beautiful Queen, Watching the Approach of the Roman Conqueror Mark Anthony as Actually Shown in This Tremendous New 1250 Character Spectacle."--text, bottom caption centered.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 74.3 x 99.7 cm (29 1/4 x 39 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000019
385931
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1841
Language: English
Subject: Barnum and Bailey
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, d. 30 B.C.--Pictorial works
Marc Antony--Pictorial works
Egypt--Pictorial works
Advertising--Circus
Circus--United States
Ethnic costume--Pictorial works
Historical pageants--Pictorial works
Historical
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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