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- Circus Poster, "The Great Adam Forepaugh Shows Presents Filemaker, Champion of the World," 1894 -
- 1894
- Collections - Artifact
Circus Poster, "The Great Adam Forepaugh Shows Presents Filemaker, Champion of the World," 1894
- Adam Forepaugh Shows - Historic Scenes and Battle of the American Revolution," circa 1893 - 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.
- Copyright 1893
- Collections - Artifact
Adam Forepaugh Shows - Historic Scenes and Battle of the American Revolution," circa 1893
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.