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Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment: Circus Prints and Ephemera
Series III. Circus Broadsides and Handbills
A-Bai (Bailey - Barnum)
P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth

Visual Materials

P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth

Description: Show location: Calais, Maine
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1879
Call number: priJLC_ENT_Circus
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Bailey, Bill. (1887-1961.)

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Biggerstaff, Bill. (-1975.)

Butler, Roland, (1886-1955.)

Coplan, Maxwell Frederic. (1857-1927.)

Freeland, Forrest Dean, (1832-1910.)

Howe, George, (1890-1949.)

Potthast, Edward, (1848-1939.)

Rimanoczy, A., (1877-1952.)

Ripley, Robert L. (1878-1957.)

Rothengatter, Emil,

Sharp, Howard Bird,

Wood, Lawson,

Associated organizations

Acme Show Print (Firm)

American Show Print (Firm)

Central Ptg. and Illinois Litho. Co.

Central Show Printing Co.

Chicago Show Printing Co.

Colorcraft Poster Co.

Courier Company.

Courmont Freres.

Currier & Ives.

Donaldson Litho. Co.

Erie Litho. & Ptg. Co.

Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Globe Poster Corp.

Graphics 2000 (Las Vegas, Nev.)

J.H. & F.F. Farwell (Firm)

Majestic Poster Press.

Neal Walters Poster Corporation.

Riverside Printing Company.

Strobridge Lithographing Company.

Triangle Poster & Printing Company.

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