Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated – Antique 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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A window into the past: Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated, preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated
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The poster's title announces the "great shows consolidated" under the names of Adam Forepaugh and the Sells Brothers, and its subjects include Forepaugh himself and Lewis Sells. Forepaugh built a major traveling menagerie and circus in the 1880s, and after his death in 1890 his show merged with the Sells Brothers enterprise, so the print records a business alliance as much as a performance. Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati was among the leading American firms producing large chromolithographic circus posters at the time. Such posters were pasted on walls and fences ahead of a show's arrival, and they remain valuable records of the period's advertising and popular portraiture.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1900.Circus posters 1900.Chromolithographs Color 1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York. No. 73. |
| Subjects | Forepaugh, Adam. Sells, Lewis. Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus--People--1900. Circuses & shows--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,444 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219050 |
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