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American Circus Posters in Full Color by Charles Philip Fox Soft cover Oversize
American Circus Posters in Full Color by Charles Philip Fox soft cover
American Circus Posters id Full Color
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows
Edited by Charles Philip Fox
Soft cover
45 Pages
Copyright 1978
Contents
Pages upon pages of Reprints on circus posters from around the world, for Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus.
Literally, the traveling tented circus was "here todaygone tomorrow."
Since the show would usually be in town for only one day, and give only two performances, the circus management contrived ahead of time many ways to advertise.
Approximately two weeks prior to show day, the advance crew of the circus arranged for the publication of advertisements in newspapers, the distribution of heralds and the mailing of couriers to let everyone know their show was coming to town.
The most important tool used by the advertising crew was the lithograph or poster.
Posters of 1/2-sheet size or 1-sheet size (28" x 42") were hung in store windows by the hundreds. Posters of larger sizes, such as 3-sheet (42" x 84"), 6-, 9-, 16-, 20-, 28-sheet and many other sizes, including, rarely, 100-sheets, were pasted on sheds, barns, buildings, walls and fences. When appropriate space was not available, the billposters simply went to the local lumberyard, purchased the necessary material, built a board fence around a vacant lot, and then pasted their posters on it.
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