2010.54.18824

The Greatest Show on Earth
1968
17.125 in HIGH x 22.625 in WIDE
(43.5 cm HIGH x 57.47 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.18824

Printed on recto and verso at the top left and right: "San Francisco Express Times January 24, 1968 6". "Cieciorka" printed in black vertically up the right side. Poster verso designed like a news publication. At the left is an article about LP records with a stylized illustration. At the right is a synopsis of news from January 6-15, at which time a strike was happening. At the bottom is an illustration of a pile of junk. Handwritten between the image at the text at the bottom right is "there were taken / from the Chronicle / of January, 1966- / two years ago. / did it make any / difference?"

Poster has black and red ink printed on browning paper and has an illustration of a man in a hat holding a cane, resembling Uncle Sam, pointing behind him at a voluptuous woman on the stage in a bathing suit, looking like the Statue of Liberty. Behind the woman is a sign reading "The Greatest / Show On Earth", partially blocked by the female''s figure. At the bottom of the poster is "step right up folks! give her your tired, your poor..."
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