Barnum & Bailey Circus | A congress of martial artists and other athletes from Japan

Barnum & Bailey Circus

Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Attraction Extraordinary. A Congress of Japan’s Famous Strong Men, Gladiators, Swordsmen, Wrestlers, Jiu-Jitsu and Athletic Champions. Cincinnati & New York: The Strobridge Litho Co, 1912 (12–B–209)

Color lithograph poster (40 x 30 in.; 1015 x 764 mm). A little marginal chipping and repair, some wrinkling and more extensive restoration to top margin well above printed area. Laid down on linen.

An action-packed poster, with six tableaux of martial artists and other athletes (including pole vaulters and a bear wrestler) watched over by small jugate portraits of Barnum and Bailey—both by now deceased—from the upper left corner.