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The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth: Daring and Dangerous Equestrian Act
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1898
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
An 1898 chromolithograph for the Barnum & Bailey show's daring and dangerous equestrian act; 76 by 50 cm.
Why it matters
The bill sells the riders on risk, the circus's oldest promise.
What to notice
Both adjectives are on the bill. 'Daring' was not enough.
Horses and nerve.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1898
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002735827
Live trademarks
Barnum & Bailey, The Greatest Show on Earth — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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