Daring and Dangerous Equestrian Act - Vintage Circus Poster
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth
 
The Circus Poster shows a performer guiding his courageous horse through a flaming hoop. A thrilling equestrian spectacle enjoyed by people living is a less complicated time.
 
London Circus and International Allied Shows owned by James E. Cooper, James Anthony Bailey, James L. Hutchinson was purchased by Phineas Taylor (P. T.) Barnum in 1880. In 1881, P. T. Barnum, James A. Bailey and James L. Hutchinson went into partnership and formed Barnum and London; "P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United". In 1887 Hutchinson, then aged 41, sold his share to Barnum and Bailey for $650,000. 1888 saw the birth of Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth".
 
Chromo-Lithograph poster originally published in 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cincinnati & New York.