Circus Poster, Sells Brothers Present a "Whole Menagerie and Aviary of Recently Imported Australian Animals and Birds," circa 1892
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In the late nineteenth century, printers developed a lithograph method that produced brightly colored posters. In advance of a circus coming to town, general agents glued these eye-catching generic posters to building walls, fences, and in window displays. To announce when and where the performances would happen, local printers sometimes provided letterpress paper date strips to paste onto the posters' lower margin.
In the late nineteenth century, printers developed a lithograph method that produced brightly colored posters. In advance of a circus coming to town, general agents glued these eye-catching generic posters to building walls, fences, and in window displays. To announce when and where the performances would happen, local printers sometimes provided letterpress paper date strips to paste onto the posters' lower margin.
Artifact
Poster
Date Made
circa 1892
Subject Date
circa 1892
Creators
Place of Creation
United States, Ohio, Cincinnati
Creator Notes
Printed by Strobridge & Co. Lith., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Collection Title
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
35.784.205
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Strobridge Lithographing Co.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Lithography
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 40.25 in
Width: 30.25 in
Inscriptions
Circus poster printed at top: SELLS BROTHERS' / ENORMOUS / UNITED / SHOWS. / Magnificent Three Ring Circus. etc. Printed at bottom: A WHOLE MENAGERIE AND AVIARY OF RECENTLY IMPORTED AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS AND BIRDS. / SECURED IN AUSTRALIA BY MESSRS. SELLS BROTHERS, WHILE TOURING THE SOUTH SEA EMPIRE. / MORE KANGAROOS, BEAUTIFUL BIRDS & FEATHERED GIANTS THAN ALL OTHER SHOWS IN AMERICAN EXHIBIT.
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