The Great Pawnee Bill shows. The only genuine wild west. Touring America ... – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Gordon W. Lillie, who performed as Pawnee Bill, headlines this color poster from around 1903, which bills his company as "the only genuine wild west" touring across America. Lillie had worked alongside Buffalo Bill Cody before launching his own show, and by the early 1900s he was competing for audiences that railroad travel had made much easier to reach. The bison pictured on the poster point to a notable detail of the period: by then the animals had been reduced to a small remnant in the wild, so seeing them in a traveling show was a draw in its own right.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Notes | Copyright by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print |
| Subjects | Pawnee Bill,--1860-1942. Wild west shows--United States--1900-1910. Bison--United States--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,035 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115001 |
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