Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated. The Oxfords. William and Ella Orford. ... Original and high class principal bareback performances and sensational double jockey act – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated. The Oxfords. William and Ella Orford. ... Original and high class principal bareback performances and sensational double jockey act comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated. The Oxfords. William and Ella Orford. ... Original and high class principal bareback performances and sensational double jockey act
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Two riders, William and Ella Orford, headline this poster as "The Oxfords," billed for an original bareback act and a "sensational double jockey" routine in which riders worked together at full gallop. The show is the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers consolidated circus, a combined outfit formed in the 1890s after the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers enterprises merged. Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati, one of the leading American makers of circus posters at the time, printed the sheet in color. Bareback riding was among the most popular attractions in late nineteenth-century circus programs, and posters like this one were meant to draw crowds through bold color and bold claims.
| Created / published | c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Circus posters 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati. |
| Subjects | Circus performers--1890-1900. Bareback riding--United States--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,442 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216723 |
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