Jun. 24th, 2012

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The Lent Circus, c. 1873    See other great old circus ads HERE.
  • Lewis B. Lent (1813-1887) who grew up with his father's traveling menagerie is described as "an all around circus man and was considered to be the best general agent and router of his day" (http://www.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlympiansL1.htm). In the 1830s, Lent traveled up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers by steamboat, and later  in 1843 was the first American circus act to perform in England. Lent's Railroad Leviathon included acts such as the Hippozoonomadom which included a hippopatamus, Equescurriculum, the Seven Wonders of the World in a gas-lit city of tents, an army of horses, a cantonment of canvas, [in short] the globe in captivity" (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027008/1873-10-11/ed-1/seq-4/).
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Capitol Records & Bozo the Clown, 1946 (985x1258) )

Camel Cigarettes Comic, 1938 (1161x944) )
1870s tag please?
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Shell Oil UK, 1950s

ETA: SEE THE FULL COLLECTION HERE in full size!


Shell made SO many of these series and so few of them are available online in their full beauty, let alone in complete sets.  Here are a handful from the "Trees" series, looking at trees month by month.

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Four more! )

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Cinebox (Scopitone), 1963 (US)

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Learn a whole lot more about Scopitone movies and Cinebox at this amazing site: HERE.

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