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From Chris Berry - Ringling-Barnum Equestrian Litho (Springfield,
MA - 1922)
For decades circus posters used the image of a pretty equestrian jumping
through a paper hoop on the bareback of a galloping horse. When this particular
poster was put up in Springfield, Massachusetts during the summer of 1922 the
Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey COMBINED circus was only in its third
season. All the more reason for it to be billed as the "Most Astounding Big
Combination"
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
From Chris Berry #1
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Was this considered a "1 sheet"
Dave once told me the name of the
date strip but I have forgotten
This looks like a "one-sheet flat."
We called the date strips "tails" but the jargon of the car is nearly forgotten. I hear fans call them "snipes" which had other meanings on the advance.
I know that for theater posters
& window cards the added strips
to add or change names & dates
are called snipes Dave
Springfield is the city immediately adjacent to the town where I grew up, Longmeadow. The show almost always appeared at Hampden Park. First opened in the 1850s, the site, bounded by the Connecticut River, the railroad tracks, and North End Bridge, was originally used for horse and bicycle racing. In 1861, it was used as the muster grounds for Civil War infantrymen, and later became a baseball field as well. (It was here that in 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team, played against the Springfield Mutuals. Cincinnati won 80-5 en route to a perfect 65-0 season.) Later, the park became home to a series of minor league baseball teams. In 1922, the year of this poster, a baseball stadium was constructed and named League Park.
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