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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: Breath-Taking Japanese Slide for Life
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 by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati and New York, for the Barnum & Bailey show's breath-taking Japanese slide for life; 75 by 49 cm.
Why it matters
Strobridge of Cincinnati became a leading printer of circus posters, and this sheet carries its name.
What to notice
The act's danger is in the title, and the picture shows it.
A stunt you could see before you paid.
Provenance
- School
- The American Golden Age — the Poster before 1931 (United States)
- Printer / house
- The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1898
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 2002695271
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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