2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/21/2024
An authentic and complete issue of Genesee Gazette, La Roy, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1834, 4pp., disbound, minor fold splits. From pg 3, an enormous circus ad, 10" x 12", highly illustrated with jaguars, hyenas, camels, and the like. June, Titus, Angevine & Company advertisement is primarily in English, promoting the many unusual animals and a band from New York City. Animals featured include: tigers, lions, leopards, panthers, elephants, bears, zebras, kangaroos, camels, rhinoceros (aka unicorn), hyenas, wolf, etc. Not just a menagerie, this circus was known for incorporating equestrian stunts, acrobatics, juggling and other entertainments. June, Titus, Angevine has alternately been known as the American National Caravan, the North Salem Circus, and around this time was more commonly known as the Flatfoots. At a later time, this menagerie also acquired the P.T. Barnum Show.
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