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Tivoli Circo Ecuestre. Temporada 1906-1907
1906
(Circus) (Art Nouveau) (Women Olympians) Tivoli Circo Ecuestre. Temporada 1906-1907. Barcelona: 1906. 17.4 x 16 cm [open 17.4 x 32 cm]; single sheet, gate folded program. Color pictorial illustration recto.
Vibrant Art Nouveau program advertising the 1906 circus season at the Tivoli theater in Barcelona. That season the company featured the likely subject of the illustration: one of the first female Olympians, equestrian Elvira Guerra (Italian, competed in Paris, 1900). Other important items on the bill: magician Chung-Ling Soo (aka William Ellsworth Robinson); and the incorporation of a cinema projection (Vitagraph).
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