The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--A troupe of pearl divers from Hawaii, Sandwich Islands ... A veritable circus of the sea – 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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A window into the past: The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--A troupe of pearl divers from Hawaii, Sandwich Islands ... A veritable circus of the sea, preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--A troupe of pearl divers from Hawaii, Sandwich Islands ... A veritable circus of the sea
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Few circus posters of the 1890s promised a troupe of pearl divers from the Sandwich Islands, the name then used for Hawaii, and this one bills them as "a veritable circus of the sea." The show was the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus, which had combined two rival traveling operations by the mid-1890s and competed for crowds with exotic acts drawn from distant places. Such displays fed a broad American appetite for foreign peoples and customs, presented as entertainment rather than as anthropology. The poster was printed in color by the Courier Lithograph Company, a firm known for the bold chromolithographs that brightened circus billing of the period.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Circus posters American 1890-1900.Chromolithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Courier Litho. Co. No. 2283. |
| Subjects | Adam Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Circus--People--1890-1900. Diving--1890-1900. Circuses & shows--1890-1900. Circus performers--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,103 × 1,427 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219053 |
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