Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus / The Great Aloys. Erie Litho Co., 1938. Color lithograph panel poster of Aloys, ?who culminates his startling series of breathtaking aerial feats with a frightful drop through space with his head in a hangman?s noose!? 41 x 14?. Linen backed. Dampening stains at top, original folds, some rippling, light inpainting retouches. B.Aloys (The Great) Peters, billed as ?the man who hangs himself and lives to tell the tale,? died in 1943 while performing this stunt in front of 5,500 spectators.