The restaurant across the street from my studio is doing an exterior renovation. Yesterday afternoon as I was arriving I saw they had removed the old siding and were getting ready to put up insulation and new siding. In the tear out they uncovered this poster for the Barnum and Baily circus. In researching, as best as I can tell, this would have been from between 1907 and 1919 after Ringling Brothers had purchased Barnum and Baily but before they merged into one "Greatest Show on Earth". The building was originally a grocery store and from the way the billboard is posted over the bare lumber it must have been under construction so the sign could hang for the short time before the circus came to town and was then covered by the finish siding. This would explain why the colors are fairly vivid after close to 100 years. Today what's left is covered once again.
I'll post a few more shots over the next few days.
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