About This Item

  • Call NumberLEWI_0015
  • Title[Barnum & Bailey billboard]
  • SummaryClose-up of large billboard: "Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth; Halsey St & Saratoga Ave., April 25."
  • Date1902
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1902. Title from inscription on verso; supplied partially by cataloger. Collection owned jointly by Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum; original glass plate negatives held by Brooklyn Museum.
  • CreatorLewis, H. S. [photographer]
  • SubjectBillboards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Circus -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsH. S. Lewis photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderH. S. Lewis photograph collection