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Tim McCoy was one of the first real-life super heroes, having been a cowboy - a decorated soldier in both WWI and WWII - and a movie star. In the mid-1930s he was asked to join the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a headliner. Several great lithographs featuring Tim McCoy were produced during the time that he was with Ringling-Barnum. After leaving "The Greatest Show on Earth" at the end of the 1937 season, McCoy framed his own Wild West Show. That show folded after just a few weeks in 1938. McCoy travelled with several other small circuses into the early 1960s. He died in 1978.
Circus PostersWith the debut of the modern traveling circus in the early 1800s, circus po…
GREAT panel size poster! Are these original?
Zack - yes all of these are original. The "panel" poster is actually a "One=Sheet Panel" (picture two half-sheets on top of each other - approximately 56"x22"). The Erie Ptg and Litho Co executed several designs in this size for Ringling-Barnum in the mid-30s. When Tim McCoy took out his own show in 1938 the Tooker Moore Litho Co of New York designed a number of great posters for him - including several that were "one-sheet panels".