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Ringling Bros World's Greatest Shows - Last days of the Century or the light of liberty – Vintage Print

Ringling Bros World's Greatest Shows - Last days of the Century or the light of liberty, Buffalo : Courier Litho. Co., 1899. — vintage poster
Ringling Bros World's Greatest Shows - Last days of the Century or the light of liberty, Buffalo : Courier Litho. Co., 1899.. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive 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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The title of this 1899 poster, "Last Days of the Century or the Light of Liberty," pairs a circus with a patriotic allegory and a nod to the century's close. The Ringling Brothers, five siblings from Baraboo, Wisconsin, had built their traveling show into a major tour by then, and their advertising leaned on parades meant to draw crowds into the streets ahead of the performance. The sheet was printed in Buffalo, New York, by the Courier Lithograph Company, a firm known for the large colored posters that circuses used to announce their arrival in town.

Created / publishedBuffalo : Courier Litho. Co., 1899.
Medium1 print (poster) : color ; 106 x 72 cm.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title. II. Title: Last days of the Century ... Circus; Processions; Posters.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,049 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115026

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