Three GREAT Circus Ads

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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/).

1870s tag please?
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Comments

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It always kills me to see athletes hawking cigarettes. But I really love the record ad! I actually want half of the records they're offering.