Raymond & Company?s Menagerie for 1847. Chrysarma. New York: Jared W. Bell, 1847. Elaborate colored poster advertising the menagerie of this little-known circus, the border of the poster filled with woodcuts of the animals the exhibition would feature. The center image depicts a ?golden chariot,? a bandwagon, drawn by a team of sixteen horses. Text below announces Herr Driesbach, ?The Lord of the Brute Creation.? 44 x 33?. Chipping, browning, stains, losses. Paper backing. Sold as-is. Still, a truly rare relic of the pre-Civil War era in American Circus. Driesbach, the animal trainer here partnered with Raymond, was promoted as a rival of and equal to the famous trainer Van Amburgh. According to Stuart Thayer, for a time, nearly every traveling menagerie in America was in some way controlled or owned (in whole or part) by Raymond.