Madam Yucca | The female Hercules

Madam Yucca

Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Madam Yucca. The Champion American Hercules. Cincinnati & New York: The Strobridge Lith. Co., [1893] (no. B50)

Color lithograph poster (29 1/4 x 37 in.; 742 x 940 mm). Fold creases, some repaired marginal tears, very faint staining in upper left corner. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas.

"A graceful athlete with the might and power of Samson," Madam Yucca appeared with the Barnum and Bailey and Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circuses. The present Barnum and Bailey poster shows Madam Yucca performing eight feats of strength, including "Record breaking trials with heavy weights and ponderous cannon balls, carrying many men aloft at one time and even lifting giant live horses from the ground."

REFERENCE:

Circus, p. 225