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Ringling Bros./Free Street Parade. 1913.
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Ringling Bros./Free Street Parade. 1913.
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PAI-XXXIX: Rare Posters
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Artist: ANONYMOUS
Size: 28 3/4 x 38 5/8 in./73 x 98 cm
Condition: BSlight tears at horizontal fold.
Printer: Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinnati
Reference:
Ringling Bros./Free Street Parade. 1913.
"The elephants! They pushed wagons out of the mud; they begged peanuts from kids in the menagerie tent; they performed in the big top, but when in parade on city streets, all strung out in a long line, they were doing the most good. People counted them as they shuffled by with their heads swaying–'5, 6, 7'–and the end wasn't in sight–'11, 12, 13'–you could still see one with a howdah coming. Unconsciously, people compared the size of a circus with the size of its herd of bulls. Big, ungainly, seemingly docile with a smell all their own, they left an indelible memory. . . . Elephant men either walked alongside the bulls, or, more often, sat cockily on their heads. Well-trained and obedient, the huge beasts were taught to 'tail-trunk' as a means of keeping them in line and their inquisitive trunks out of trouble. The strong, musty body odor frequently frightened a skittish horse along the parade route. Men on horseback, on occasion, rode ahead of the herd calling out a warning–'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming!’” (The Great Circus Street Parade in Pictures, by Charles Philip Fox & F. Beverly Kelley, p. 92). And what an impression these exotic pachyderms make for the Ringling Brothers Free Street Parade, a promotion for a gratis event that certainly must have filled the circus coffers to overflowing.
Size: 28 3/4 x 38 5/8 in./73 x 98 cm
Condition: BSlight tears at horizontal fold.
Printer: Strobridge Litho Co., Cincinnati
Reference:
Ringling Bros./Free Street Parade. 1913.
"The elephants! They pushed wagons out of the mud; they begged peanuts from kids in the menagerie tent; they performed in the big top, but when in parade on city streets, all strung out in a long line, they were doing the most good. People counted them as they shuffled by with their heads swaying–'5, 6, 7'–and the end wasn't in sight–'11, 12, 13'–you could still see one with a howdah coming. Unconsciously, people compared the size of a circus with the size of its herd of bulls. Big, ungainly, seemingly docile with a smell all their own, they left an indelible memory. . . . Elephant men either walked alongside the bulls, or, more often, sat cockily on their heads. Well-trained and obedient, the huge beasts were taught to 'tail-trunk' as a means of keeping them in line and their inquisitive trunks out of trouble. The strong, musty body odor frequently frightened a skittish horse along the parade route. Men on horseback, on occasion, rode ahead of the herd calling out a warning–'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming!’” (The Great Circus Street Parade in Pictures, by Charles Philip Fox & F. Beverly Kelley, p. 92). And what an impression these exotic pachyderms make for the Ringling Brothers Free Street Parade, a promotion for a gratis event that certainly must have filled the circus coffers to overflowing.
