The great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined--Terrific flights over ponderous elephants by a company of twenty five splendid artists in a great contest for valuable prizes – Vintage 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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The great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined--Terrific flights over ponderous elephants by a company of twenty five splendid artists in a great contest for valuable prizes comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined--Terrific flights over ponderous elephants by a company of twenty five splendid artists in a great contest for valuable prizes
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Few circus bills of the late 1890s promised as much overhead as this one, with aerialists flying over a line of elephants and twenty-five performers competing for prizes. By this time the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers shows had combined into one tented company, which filled its program with acrobats, clowns and trained animals. Chromolithographs like this were the main way traveling shows announced themselves in towns across the country, and the Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati printed many of them. Their bold color and dramatic action were meant to catch the eye of passersby from a distance.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Circus posters American 1890-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 99.S. No. 66. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co. |
| Subjects | Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus--People--1890-1900. Acrobats--1890-1900. Clowns--1890-1900. Trained animals--1890-1900. Circuses & shows--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,454 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218957 |
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