Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The wonderful Snow White ... zebu and riding peacock – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare vintage poster captures Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The wonderful Snow White ... zebu and riding peacock in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The wonderful Snow White ... zebu and riding peacock
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This poster promotes the Sells Brothers' "enormous united shows" with a lineup that includes a "wonderful Snow White," a zebu (a humped cattle breed), and a riding peacock, a mix of exotic animals and novelty acts that circus advertising of the day leaned on. Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati and New York printed many such posters. Chromolithographs like this one, built from separate stone or plate impressions in bright color, were the main way traveling shows announced themselves in towns across the country before the film era. The image gives a good sense of how these shows sold spectacle to small-town audiences in the 1890s.
| Created / published | c1895. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Circus posters 1890-1900.Chromolithographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York. |
| Subjects | Circuses & shows--United States--1890-1900. Animals--1890-1900. Clowns--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,442 × 1,153 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217028 |
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