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Lot 332
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Season 1940 composite cast photograph.
Estimate: $200 - $400
Unsold
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Season 1940 composite cast photograph. A montage photograph, composed by Milt Taylor, with bust photos of the scores of performers and show people from the 1940 season of the Greatest Show on Earth. Includes clowns such as Felix Adler, ringmaster Fred Bradna, conductor Merle Evans.
This photograph was owned by Major Mite, who is pictured and toured with Ringling Bros. for 20 years.
11 x 16". Rolled.
Condition
Light creases.
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Clarence "Major Mite" Howerton (1913 - 1975); to his brother, LeRoy Howerton (1910 - 1993); to his daughter, Candace Howerton (1943 - 2023).
