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Commotion among the animals

Description: Image of circus animals and livestock jumping over fences in the ring of a circus tent but balking at a barbed wire fence in an advertisement for Glidden Steel Barb Wire manufactured by I.L. Ellwood & Company of De Kalb, Illinois; people in the audience are shown leaving with enthusiastic intentions of buying Glidden fencing at bottom left and right, including a woman and a Chinese man; bust-length portrait of J. F. Glidden inset at top left.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1877-1895
Call number: priJLC_AGR_002479
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Glidden steel barb wire manufactured by I. L. Ellwood & Co

Visual Materials

Image of trains traveling past farms and livestock fields with barbed wire fencing in an advertisement for Glidden Steel Barb Wire manufactured by I.L. Ellwood & Company of De Kalb, Illinois; fencing advertised to be impervious to floods and sparks with captions including "After the Flood," and "Sparks" at left and right; industrial building at top center; barbed wire border.

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The great railroad fence. The Buck-Thorn

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Image of a length of barbed wire in a text advertisement for The Buck-Thorn barbed fencing; advertising text, testimonials, and information on recto and verso.

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Wallace Bros. World’s Largest Circus

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Image of a female circus performer jumping above a horse; date sheet for a July 4, [1961], show in Lorain, Ohio, pasted below image.

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Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Darrow : colored dust drawings smoke pictures and finger shadows

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Image of two vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of husband-and-wife vaudeville entertainment team Stuart Darrow (sometimes spelled "Stewart Darrow") and Harriet Darrow in formal dress, surrounded by black-and-white silhouettes of a female circus performer walking on a tight rope, a man on a jumping horse, a man fishing from a canoe, a profile of a Native American Indian head, a man blowing into a horn towards a woman on a balcony, a bird, wolf, rabbit, ducks, and swan; as well as a framed picture of pink roses and a framed image of a castle in the moonlight, with two squirrels at lower left holding a smoke device below the frame.

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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : Winston's remarkable riding, juggling aerobatic seals most wonderful trained animal feature of the age

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Image of a collage of three images of a costumed male animal trainer in a circus ring with seals consisting of an image of four seals balancing balls while two of the seals ride on the backs of horses and one sits in a horse-drawn carriage, at right; an image of the trainer watching one seal complete a flip in a stop-motion-like view, at upper left; and an image of the trainer watching one seal balance a lamp on its nose while sitting on a ball while another seal balances a cross-shaped item on its nose, at lower left; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey in upper left corner.

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Champion barbed wire manft'd by the Crandal Mfg' Co

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Image of livestock and other farm animals, including a dog, sheep, horse, chickens, a cow, and pigs, discussing the successful use of Champion Barbed Wire in terms of visibility and effectiveness in a five-fold advertisement for the Crandal Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois; dialogue balloon captions above each animal; advertisement text on verso.

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Commotion among the animals

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