Sujet
Advertisement for Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, 1898. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Advertisement for Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, 1898. 'LAST SIX WEEKS...CLOSING EXHIBITIONS OF THE GRANDEST & MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASON EVER KNOWN IN OLYMPIA. FINAL PERFORMANCES in LONDON...Positively Closing the Glorious and Triumphant Sojourn...The Enormous Horse Fair - showing the Vast Cavalcade of High-Class Stock owned & exhibited by the Great Barnum & Bailey Show - An Actual Scene on the Great Hippodrome Track. Over 400 Choice Thoroughbreds from all parts of the World...AND THEN TOURING THE WHOLE OF GREAT BRITAIN...with New Acts and New Features introduced into the already Magnificent and Stupendously large Programme of THRILLING PERFORMANCES AND GRAND DISPLAYS. Visiting the Provinces upon its own specially constructed 70 Railway Cars, every car nearly 60 feet long. NEARLY A FULL MILE OF RAILWAY CARS, And exhibiting all the myriad wonders under TWELVE ENORMOUS CANVAS PAVILIONS, One alone of which is double the capacity of Olympia...the Grandest Show ever devised by man. Last chances of witnessing the Most Magnificent Exhibition, the ingenuity, ability, wealth, and wonderful resources of the KING OF THE AMUSEMENT WORLD, as set before the bewildered eyes of London...AND ONE TICKET ADMITS TO ALL. TWO GRAND EXHIBITIONS DAILY.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM26A14_485
Model release
NA
Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
23.0Mo (2.4Mo) / 16.9cm x 33.9cm / 2001 x 4009 (300dpi)