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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Campbell Bros.
While these route cards are from different years, I have seen at least seven different headings on the route cards of the same season. Was this unique to just the Campbell show or did a lot of shows at the turn of the century keep changing the route card designs in the same season?
1 comment:
Dick Flint
said...
Frequent changes were common, probably because local printers were used when the cards had to be produced. The show likely carried some stock cuts that they would give to a printer in the morning who would then use his own type to set the heading and the route info following the format of an earlier card given to him. Dick Flint Baltimore
I performed from 1973 to 1995 with a couple years off in between. I did an aerial cradle act for three years, low wire as a clown, trained llamas, ponies, then lions and tigers for 15 years. I am now a firefighter, a member of the Circus Historical Society and an author of several circus and carnival related subjects.
1 comment:
Frequent changes were common, probably because local printers were used when the cards had to be produced. The show likely carried some stock cuts that they would give to a printer in the morning who would then use his own type to set the heading and the route info following the format of an earlier card given to him.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
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