?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
BARNUM & BAILEY / THE GREAT CONEY ISLAND WATER CARNIVAL. 1898. 40x30 1/4 inches. Strobridge, Cincinnati. Condition B+: horizontal fold with tape on verso in the margins, slightly affecting image; minor tears at edges. Paper. With Coney Island as a backdrop, including the "Elephantine Colossus", an Elephant shaped building with a viewing deck, piers of attractions, towers, slides and beach-front concessions, a colorful array of costumed aquatic performers are performing both above, upon and below the water. Curiously, this act was performed all over the world, wherever the circus was travelling, and all it really had to do with Coney Island was its name.
