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Union bank note company

Description: Image of an advertisement for the Union Bank Note Company of Kansas City, Missouri; a woman swathed in voluminous garments danced on top of a book; a man in a clown or jester costume holds rings in his hand and dances with her.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1890-1894
Call number: priJLC_ART_003239
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Tony Denier’s Humpty Dumpty. : Mammoth double specialty company, all star artists

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priJLC_ENT_000355

Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : the four Silbons, America's greatest troupe of aerialists

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Image of the two female and two male members of the Silbon aerialist troupe performing, with a central image of the members performing on trapezes in multiple routines simultaneously, while a male circus performer balances on a moving horse in a circus ring with a clown in the background, and an image, at left, of the Silbons standing one-on-top of the other while balancing on hanging rings outdoors.

priJLC_ENT_001315

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Nicknames of the states

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priJLC_AGR_001829

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Visual Materials

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priJLC_ART_003208

Union bank note company

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