Barnum & Bailey in Europe

Another great poster from the Chris Berry collection that was used in the amazing Poster exhibit at the Big "E" last year.

It was explained to us at the convention that the way so many of these posters survived was that the Strobridge Litho Co. produced these for Barnum & Bailey and sent them to Europe but once they got there, Barnum & Bailey was prohibited from using them by some rule or law and had to order them from a European Company instead. Thus these were all returned to Strobridge and remained on their shelves for over 50 years until they closed and several circus collectors were able to acquire extensive collections.