The Circus – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The Circus. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Circus
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Catalogued simply as *The Circus*, this single print is dated about December 1881, though the record marks its details as unverified. The shelflist card names Pastime Publishing Co., the only publisher noted, so that attribution should be read with caution. In the early 1880s the American circus was at the height of its traveling era, with large tent shows moving by rail from town to town. Circus prints of this kind were often used to advertise such spectacles, and they still show how the shows were presented to the public.
| Created / published | c1881 Dec. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Pastime Publishing Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108013 |
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