The spirit of '76 revived

A conductor wearing a tall black hat and blue and white traditional, colonial era clothing holds a gold colored baton and leads a band of younger, male musicians along a city street. Men and women wave flags and watch the musicians from open windows in the surrounding buildings. A dog barks at the band, front, right. The text below states that "a full juvenile fife and drum corps in the appropriate costume of our forefathers" will appear in the "Princely Street March" every day.

This poster is one of many fine examples of circus posters printed by the Strobridge Lithograph Company of Cincinnati in the early 1880's when American entrepreneur and cultural icon P.T. Barnum first negotiated the merger of his circus to form "P.T. Barnum's and Great London Combined."

ca. 24 1/2" x 31"