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[Crowds at a circus sideshow viewing women and some men dressed in costumes of foreign lands] – Antique Wall Art

[Crowds at a circus sideshow viewing women and some men dressed in costumes of foreign lands], Buffalo, N.Y. : Courier Litho. Co., c1900. — vintage poster
[Crowds at a circus sideshow viewing women and some men dressed in costumes of foreign lands], Buffalo, N.Y. : Courier Litho. Co., c1900.. Vintage poster from the Circus & Carnival collection.

(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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Crowds gather in front of a sideshow tent in this large chromolithograph, where the painted lure of the attraction is as much the subject as the people themselves. Women and a few men in costumes meant to suggest distant lands stand on a raised platform, drawing the eye of the spectators below. The poster was printed by the Courier Litho. Co. of Buffalo, New York, around 1900, a period when color lithography made bold, cheap advertising for traveling shows common across the country. Posters like this one promised exotic wonders and helped draw paying customers to the midway.

Created / publishedBuffalo, N.Y. : Courier Litho. Co., c1900.
Medium1 print (poster) : chromolithograph, color ; 73 x 107 cm.
GenreCircus posters American 1890.Chromolithographs Color 1890.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Copyright by the Courier Litho. Co. No. 2936.
SubjectsCircus performers--1890. Spectators--1890. Circuses & shows--1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,034 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115041

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