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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
The WPA & the Golden Age · The American Golden Age
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth: Scenes in the Grand Water Circus
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1895
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 1895 chromolithograph by the Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati and New York, showing scenes in the Barnum & Bailey grand water circus; 100 by 76 cm.
Why it matters
Strobridge printed for the circus from its Cincinnati works; the water circus was one of the show's set pieces.
What to notice
Several scenes on one sheet: a programme, drawn.
The ring, flooded for effect.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Printer / house
- The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1895
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002695272
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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