The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. The Great Coney Island Water Carnival...log-rollers and others – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. The Great Coney Island Water Carnival...log-rollers and others. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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This poster puts a seaside spectacle at the center of a circus advertisement: a water carnival at Coney Island, with log-rollers working the water. The Barnum & Bailey show was known for elaborate promotion, and this color chromolithograph was printed by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, a Cincinnati and New York firm that produced vivid posters for display on billboards and walls. Coney Island, on the Brooklyn shore, was then a popular resort of rides, sideshows and crowds. The c1898 date comes from an unverified caption card, so treat it as approximate.
| Created / published | Cincinnati & New York : Strobridge Lith. Co., c1898. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 76 x 100 cm. |
| Notes | Chromolithograph. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title. II. Title: The Great Coney Island Water Carnival...log rollers and others. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176678 |
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