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American, printed by Donaldson Lithograph Company
United States
1914
Color lithograph on paper, framed
30 x 44 inches framed (76 x 112 cm)
Private collection, upstate New York
The horizontal poster carries Tompkins' Real Wild West in red-outlined letters on a cream band, beside a portrait medallion of Tompkins at the left. Below, dancers in feathered war bonnets, beaded sashes, and fringed dress perform at the center of an encampment, one carrying a painted shield and hand drum, with tipis behind and a seated audience ringing the ground to the drummers at the lower right. The Donaldson lithograph imprint appears at the lower left, and the sheet is clean and bright in an archival frame.
Charles H. Tompkins was a Texas roper and rider who directed the Congress of Champion Ropers and Riders at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. From 1913 to 1917 he and his wife operated the Real Wild West and Frontier Exhibition in combination with the Cooper-Whitbys circus, mixing Wild West acts with aerial wire, acrobatic, trick bicycle and trained animal acts of the European circus tradition, and the show closed at the outbreak of American involvement in World War I. Tompkins was a friend of the performer and humorist Will Rogers, and his posters were printed by the Donaldson Lithograph Company of Newport, Kentucky, a leading printer of American show paper.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
American, printed by Donaldson Lithograph Company
United States
1914
Color lithograph on paper, framed
30 x 44 inches framed (76 x 112 cm)
Private collection, upstate New York
The horizontal poster carries Tompkins' Real Wild West in red-outlined letters on a cream band, beside a portrait medallion of Tompkins at the left. Below, dancers in feathered war bonnets, beaded sashes, and fringed dress perform at the center of an encampment, one carrying a painted shield and hand drum, with tipis behind and a seated audience ringing the ground to the drummers at the lower right. The Donaldson lithograph imprint appears at the lower left, and the sheet is clean and bright in an archival frame.
Charles H. Tompkins was a Texas roper and rider who directed the Congress of Champion Ropers and Riders at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. From 1913 to 1917 he and his wife operated the Real Wild West and Frontier Exhibition in combination with the Cooper-Whitbys circus, mixing Wild West acts with aerial wire, acrobatic, trick bicycle and trained animal acts of the European circus tradition, and the show closed at the outbreak of American involvement in World War I. Tompkins was a friend of the performer and humorist Will Rogers, and his posters were printed by the Donaldson Lithograph Company of Newport, Kentucky, a leading printer of American show paper.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.