The amazing American circus poster: the Strobridge Lithographing Company

Contents

The steamboat, the circus, and Cincinnati / Stuart L. Thayer -- The gilded legacy of the circus kings / Deborah W. Walk -- The Strobridge Lithographing Company : the Tiffany of printers / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- A picture is worth 757 words : circus & culture, language & perception / David Carlyon -- The Strobridge Lithographing Company, the Ringling Brothers, and their circuses / Fred D. Pfening III -- After the posters, the daily free street parade / Fred Dahlinger Jr. -- Promoting peerless prodigies "to the curious" / Richard W. Flint -- The menagerie / Richard J. Reynolds III -- The circus clown as social commentator / Rodney A. Huey -- Magnificent entrées : the role of the spectacle during the golden age of the circus / Jennifer Lemmer Posey -- Bearded ladies, dainty Amazons, hindoo fakirs, and lady savages : circus representations of gender and race in Victorian America / Janet M. Davis -- Strobridge pictorial posters : design, printing, and posting / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- Catalogue -- Strobridge Lithographing Company artists / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- Timeline : Strobridge and the circus in America -- Strobridge circus clients / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of names and titles.