Set Reminder2022-09-24 12:00:002022-09-24 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Zweifel Circus Collection https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-zweifel-circus-collection-21943 Our September sale features the remarkable circus archives of John & Jan Zweifel. Lifelong circus fans and collectors, the Zweifels' archives were home to tens of thousands of documents, photographs, and relics, including correspondence and memorabilia, as well as circus and wild west costumes, posters, and banners.
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The Progress of Civilization. Thrilling Incidents in Actual Border Life in the Wild West [cover title]. Chicago: Empire Show Print, ca. 1889. 4to. Stapled engraved wrappers. Wild West and circus program issued by the Adam Forepaugh Show.Illustrated with engravings of Wild West show scenes and dramatized historical events (Custer?s Last Rally, pioneer life, Indians attacking cowboys, sharpshooters); and circus acts. Portrait of Adam Forepaugh on lower wrapper. 32pp. incl. wrappers. Splitting at backstrip; spotting and short tears, piece of mending tape inside lower wrapper, but overall very good. With: a second copy, lacking upper wrapper, worn; and a Forepaugh-Sells ?Book of Wonders? (ca. 1903), worn.