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Title: Sherwood, Mrs. (Virginia), 1832-1888.
Description: In Gleason’s pictorial drawing-room companion, vol. 7, no. 25 (December 23, 1854), p. 396., Full-length portrait of the equestrian circus performer.
Date: [1854?]

Title: [Lu Lu, the man bird]
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting Lu Lu the man bird wearing a hat with wings and winged shoes flying in the air over circus tents, one of them labeled "Lu Lu". Lu Lu the man bird was one of the main features of W.C. Coup's Monster Four-Ring Circus and Paris Hippodrome., Title supplied by cataloger from text printed on verso., Advertising text promoting the Great Paris Hippodrome and W. C. Coup's New United Monster Shows printed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Great [1975.F.505]

Title: The best, ask for it again: Star Braid
Description: Racist trade illustration of an African American girl balancing on a spool of blue Star Braid Thread. She is holds a wand with bubbles on both ends. Two more bubbles float near her. The Star Braid logo is printed in each bubble. The girl is attired in a red dress and is barefoot. She wears a blue ribbon in her hair, gold earrings, armbands, bracelets, and anklets., Title from item., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Star [P.2017.95.169]

Title: The best, ask for it again: Star Braid
Description: Racist trade illustration of an African American girl balancing on a spool of blue Star Braid Thread. She is holds a wand with bubbles on both ends. Two more bubbles float near her. The Star Braid logo is printed in each bubble. The girl is attired in a red dress and is barefoot. She wears a blue ribbon in her hair, gold earrings, armbands, bracelets, and anklets., Title from item., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Star Braid [P.2017.95.168]

Title: Brien's National Circus and Model Show! J. Brien, proprietor C. Warner, business manager and treasurer H. Whitby, equestrian director Frank Whittaker, ring manager C.H. Castle, contracting agent R.P. Jones, director of publications This gigantic concern! with an outfit all new! an immense stud of trained horses! a fine selection of ponies! mules and other performing animals! and a superior troupe of performers, constituting the largest and best circus ever formed, will exhibit at Germantown: on Chelton Avenue and Plank Road, on Monday, April 27th, 1863. Admission, 25 cts. No half price. No extra fee demanded for choice seats. Seats for everybody. Performances, afternoon and night, at 2 and half-past 7 o'cl'k Special notice to ladies.--The management is happy to announce an engagement with Mrs. Charles Warner, formerly Mrs Dan Rice ... Miss Libbie Rice! now on her initial professional tour, ... A grand procession, led by P. Brintner's Keystone Cornet Band, will be made daily, at half-past 10 o'clock, A.M
Description: John V. O'Brien, proprietor; other performers include: Charles Conrad, William Conrad, W.B. Kennedy, Charles King, C.F. Reed, Elvira Whitby, H.W. Whitby, Johnny Whitby, Lizzie Whitby, and Margaret Whitby., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Brien's National Circus and Model Show
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Brien (25)5761.F.62b (McAllister)

Title: Brien's National Circus and Model Show! J. Brien, proprietor C. Warner, business manager and treasurer H. Whitby, equestrian director Frank Whittaker, ring manager C.H. Castle, contracting agent R.P. Jones, director of publications This gigantic concern! with an outfit all new! an immense stud of trained horses! a fine selection of ponies! mules and other performing animals! and a superior troupe of performers, constituting the largest and best circus ever formed, will exhibit at Frankford! on Tuesday, April 28th, 1863. Admission, 25 cts. No half price. No extra fee demanded for choice seats. Seats for everybody. Performances, afternoon and night, at 2 and half-past 7 o'cl'k Special notice to ladies.--The management is happy to announce an engagement with Mrs. Charles Warner, formerly Mrs Dan Rice ... Miss Libbie Rice! now on her initial professional tour, ... A grand procession, led by P. Brintner's Keystone Cornet Band, will be made daily, at half-past 10 o'clock, A.M
Description: John V. O'Brien, proprietor; other performers include: Charles Conrad, William Conrad, W.B. Kennedy, Charles King, C.F. Reed, Elvira Whitby, H.W. Whitby, Johnny Whitby, Lizzie Whitby, and Margaret Whitby., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Brien's National Circus and Model Show
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Brien (25)5761.F.63b (McAllister)

Title: Brien's National Circus and Model Show! J. Brien, proprietor C. Warner, business manager and treasurer H. Whitby, equestrian director Frank Whittaker, ring manager C.H. Castle, contracting agent R.P. Jones, director of publications This gigantic concern! with an outfit all new! an immense stud of trained horses! a fine selection of ponies! mules and other performing animals! and a superior troupe of performers, constituting the largest and best circus ever formed. Remember, the model circus will be at Wilmington Thursday, April 30th, and not before. Admission, 25 cts. No half price. No extra fee demanded for choice seats. Seats for everybody. Performances, afternoon and night, at 2 and half-past 7 o'cl'k Special notice to ladies.--The management is happy to announce an engagement with Mrs. Charles Warner, formerly Mrs Dan Rice ... Miss Libbie Rice! now on her initial professional tour, ... A grand procession, led by P. Brintner's Keystone Cornet Band, will be made daily, at half-past 10 o'clock, A.M
Description: April 30 fell on a Thursday in 1863., John V. O'Brien, proprietor; other performers include: Charles Conrad, William Conrad, W.B. Kennedy, Charles King, C.F. Reed, Elvira Whitby, H.W. Whitby, Johnny Whitby, Lizzie Whitby, and Margaret Whitby., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Brien's National Circus and Model Show
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Brien (27)5761.F.4 (McAllister)

Title: [Clark's mile end spool cotton trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for John Clark Jr. & Co.'s mile end spool cotton products numbered 24, 30, and 60. Illustrations depict circus performers or acrobats; an artist tethered and hanging from a large spool of cotton as he paints "Clarks mile end" on the side of a cliff overlooking the ocean; a boy attired in robes navigating a chariot pulled by two white horses; a backyard view of a dog stealing the bone of a much larger dog that is restrained by a thread from a large spool of cotton; and flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Three prints [1975.F.137, 1975.F.139, 1975.F.143] contain advertising text printed on versos., Three prints printed by Forbes Co. (Boston) and two prints printed by Donaldson Brothers (New York)., Four prints [1975.F.140, 1975.F.144, 1975.F.166, 1975.F.170] contain six-month calendars on versos, with the imprint for Thomas Russell & Co., sole agents, New York., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Clark's mile end [1975.F.137; 1975.F.139-140; 1975.F.143-144; 1975.F.166; 1975.F.170]

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