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Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925

Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth: Strange and savage tribes: A glimpse of the great menagerie tent, showing the loose led animals and grand ethnological congress.

Image of a tented circus arena with spectators viewing Asian and African performers who form the "Grand Ethnological Congress," with models of native housing structures and flags labeled "Sikhs" and "Singalese," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include elephants, camels, cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, horses, zebras, bison, and alpacas.

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source	dcterms:source	Huntington Digital Library
source	dcterms:source	The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
date	dcterms:date	1894
type	dcterms:type	Still image
subject	dcterms:subject	Advertising--Circus
subject	dcterms:subject	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001111
subject	dcterms:subject	Circus performers
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language	dcterms:language	English
rights	dcterms:rights	This work is in the public domain.
medium	dcterms:medium	Circus posters
creator	dcterms:creator	Strobridge Lithographing Company
creator	dcterms:creator	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010081878
extent	dcterms:extent	76.52 x 96.84 cm

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1. Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth: Strange and savage tribes: A glimpse of the great menagerie tent, showing the loose led animals and grand ethnological congress. Image of a tented circus arena with spectators viewing Asian and African performers who form the "Grand Ethnological Congress," with models of native housing structures and flags labeled "Sikhs" and "Singalese," and zoo animals in circus wagons on the perimeter; animals include elephants, camels, cows, including one cow with a third eye and miniature zebu cows with humps, horses, zebras, bison, and alpacas.