Reiss, Nat | "The Most Difficult and Dangerous Feats Ever Devised by Human Ingenuity"

Reiss, Nat

The Nat Reiss Shows. Hire Wire Artists. Introducing the Most Difficult and Dangerous Feats Ever Devised by Human Ingenuity. Milwaukee: Riverside Printing Co., ca. 1900 (no. 2591)

Color lithograph poster (42 x 28 in.; 1067 x 701 mm). Fold creases rather worn, especially central horizontal fold, some tears and chips at edges, rebacked with linen, bit of show-through from writing on linen backing.

Nat Reiss headed a family-friendly carnival that operated primarily west of the Mississippi in the early twentieth century. But the hyperbole of his promotional claims matched that of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.