An elephant and clown tea party at the circus. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Advertisement poster for an American pantomime company called Humpty Dumpty, organized by Abbey & Hickey. The pantomime was a British art form with two parts: a highly stylized harlequinade ...
French circus poster shows two performers in the basket of an airship navigated by a rudder and a propeller. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Colourful Barnum & Bailey vintage circus poster of “the marvelous foot-ball dogs”. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
“Batty bear trainer, the biggest attraction of the day“. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
The Great Coney Island Water Carnival – Barnum & Baily. Advertising poster from Barnum & Baily’s “The Greatest Show On Earth”. The poster shows performers diving from great heights ...
Descent of Absalon by Miss Stena. Vintage French circus poster shows a group of aerialists performing. Two women are held aloft by a balloon attached to their hair. The ...
19th-century circus poster titled “Performing Elephant”. The colorful lithographic poster depicts an elephant performing tricks in a crowded circus and the elephant has an elaborate saddle on its back, ...
This beautiful 1874 circus painting is called “The Lion Queen”. If you notice the main three big cats, lion, tiger and jaguar are all in the painting. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
The Gentry brothers circus was formed by four brothers from Bloomington, Indiana. Their circus was noted for the dog and pony acts. This advertising circus poster features Louise Hilton, ...
“Calliope! The Wonderful Operonicon or Steam Car of the Muses” [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Barnum & Bailey – Grand Water Circus. “An entirely new, startling and interesting water exhibition. Terminating in tremendous headlong dives from enormous heights”. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Henri Gray – Les Saltimbanques. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Daring Madam Castello’s amazing exploits on the equine marvel “Jupiter”. Promotional poster for Ringling Brothers by the Coach Lithographic Co. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
A montage of vintage circus acts, all featuring animals. Many examples of bareback horse acrobatics, an elephant ride and a lion tamer. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
The poster shows the skeleton of Jumbo the elephant. Jumbo was an orphaned Sudanese Elephant that was originally sold to Paris zoo and then to London Zoo. Jumbo was ...
P.T. Barnums Greatest Show on Earth and Great London Circus. A band of 25 men dressed in red and blue uniforms and playing a variety of horns parades through ...
19th-century circus poster titled “Performing Elephant”. The colorful lithographic poster depicts an elephant performing tricks in a crowded circus and the elephant has an elaborate saddle on its back, ...
Ringling Brothers Big New Parade. Large old circus poster (1899) showing five separate parades of people in costume and animals. The parade represents a “caravan crossing the desert,” “children’s ...
The Sells Floto Circus was a combination of the Floto Dog & Pony Show and the Sells Brothers Circus that toured with sideshow acts in the United States during ...
Circus poster advertising the main attractions of The Greatest Show On Earth”. This time for the flying trapeze act The Flying Dillons, brought over from Europe. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Poster advertising The Great Wallace Shows circus, featuring “the renowned Stirk Family”. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
The art of performing acrobatic and gymnastic feats on the bare backs of loping horses was referred to as bareback riding in the circus. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
An old circus poster of Barnum & Bailey advertising the Silbons flying trapeze artists. The caption on the poster reads “The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth – ...
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