Sells Brothers Enormous United Shows ... The big show of the world ... – 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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Step back in time with Sells Brothers Enormous United Shows ... The big show of the world ..., a vintage poster rich in period 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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Few posters sum up the 1890s circus as loudly as this one, which bills the Sells Brothers' Enormous United Shows as "the big show of the world." The Sells family ran a traveling circus that moved by rail from town to town, and bills like this were pasted on fences, barns and depot walls ahead of the train's arrival. The color lithograph was printed in 1895 by the Strobridge Lithograph Company, a Cincinnati firm with a New York office that produced much of the period's bold circus advertising.
| Created / published | Cincinnati/New York : Strobridge Lith. Co., 1895. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 78 x 103 cm. |
| Notes | Exchange, Hastings, 1944. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title. Circus; RR; Posters. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,521 × 1,180 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176345 |
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