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Vintage Circus Posters Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

Vintage Circus Posters Junk Journal Ephemera Pack, 20 Printable Pieces

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A ready-made vintage circus junk journal kit of 20 printable circus posters from the golden age of the big top, 1896–1905: Barnum & Bailey, Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, Ringling Bros., the Great Wallace Shows and John Robinson's circus. Clowns, aerialists and trapeze artists, high divers, bareback riders, performing dogs, geese and sea lions, a strongman, high-wire cyclists, a lion and a hippo, all in bold chromolithograph reds, yellows and blues. Use them for circus and carnival themed junk journals, scrapbooking, collage, card making, party decor and wall art.

Print sizes at 300 dpi (they vary by piece type; files are never resized):
• Circus lithograph posters (20): about 12 × 17 in up to 38 × 76 in, big enough to frame as wall art
Everything also prints smaller (A5, A6, tags, ATCs) with no loss.

Pieces included: Forepaugh & Sells Brothers "Combined, Coming" ballerina poster; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers lady rider in a garland of roses; Barnum & Bailey aerialists poster, 1896; Barnum & Bailey "Great Coney Island Water Carnival" divers; Barnum & Bailey daring equestrian leap through fire; Barnum & Bailey "Marvelous Foot-Ball Dogs" with clown; Barnum & Bailey performing geese, roosters and musical donkey; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers high divers; Great Wallace Shows triple revolving trapeze, 1898; Great Wallace Shows Mlle Norada French and the mysterious globe; Ringling Bros. Crandall the clown on his riding mule Thunderbolt; "The World's Great Sandwinas" bicycle strongwoman poster, 1905; John Robinson's circus Louis Cyr "Strongest Man on Earth"; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers performing sea lions, 1900; Forepaugh & Sells souvenir lion poster, season of 1899; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers "the only clown women" ring poster; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Hanlon Troupe aerial champions; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers "Miraculous Melrosas" high-wire cyclists; Barnum & Bailey "L'Auto Bolide" dip of death, 1905; Forepaugh & Sells Brothers hippopotamus and rhinoceros.

Files: 20 high-resolution JPGs in one zip download (1.10 GB). Pixel sizes: circus posters about 5,400–22,900 px on the long edge. These are the full-size museum and library scans. The posters are trimmed to their paper edge to remove the scanner background.

Source and rights: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, circus poster collection (LC-DIG-ppmsca digital files made from the original posters; "no known restrictions on publication"). Public domain: anonymous American circus lithographs printed between 1896 and 1905.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.

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