Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated, a vintage poster rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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This poster promotes a circus that was a merger of two rival American traveling shows, Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, and its main attraction is a group of trained sea lions. Circus posters of the 1890s were among the most visible advertising of their day, and this one was printed by the Strobridge Lithographing Company, a Cincinnati firm known for its bold chromolithographs. Trained seals and sea lions were a popular novelty act in American circuses of the period, and posters like this one were pasted on walls and fences to draw crowds to the big tent before the show came to town.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Circus posters 1890-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York. No. 98-S. No. 7. |
| Subjects | Circuses & shows--United States--1890-1900. Trained animals--1890-1900. Sea lions--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218921 |
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