Ringling Barnum Lions and Terrell Jacobs (1938) When Jacobs moved to Ringling Barnum in 1938, the artwork on this litho - originally used by Hagenbeck Wallace to promote Clyde Beatty - was rehashed with the Jacobs name. (Note the stylized "H-W" on the lion pedestals. Jacobs was a headliner that season and Ringling-Barnum also used a new Strobridge litho in 1938 promoting Jacobs' black leopard act. |
Thursday, January 24, 2013
From Chris Berry #3
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Chris:
You're too sharp for me. I've been looking at this poster for fifty years and had never noticed that the design on the pedestals was a stylized HW.
One I commented to the kid selling repros of this at the RBBB stand that the poster was copied from a Beatty one. He responded, "From what I hear Beatty was more of a terrorizer than a trainer."
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