Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined. Wondrous Sumatra, African and South-American wild beasts and birds, ... – 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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A window into the past: Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined. Wondrous Sumatra, African and South-American wild beasts and birds, ..., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined. Wondrous Sumatra, African and South-American wild beasts and birds, ...
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Few circus posters of the 1890s advertised a merger as openly as this one, which promotes the "enormous shows combined" of Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, two rival tent shows that joined forces in the mid-1890s. The lithograph's promise of "Wondrous Sumatra" and African and South American wild beasts and birds reflects the period's appetite for exotic menageries, which drew crowds to traveling circuses across the United States. Cincinnati's Strobridge Lithographing Company, named in the copyright notice, was one of the largest makers of such posters, and its multicolor chromolithographs were designed to be read from a distance on fences and storefronts.
| Created / published | c1896. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,458 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217024 |
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