MS 7166 Japanese circus poster
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7166

NAA INV 10000034

USNM Accession 284935

USNM Ethnology Catolog 410800
name: label: Creator
content: Japan Ueda Performing Arts Company
label: Collector
content: Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009
place: label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: East Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Circus
creator: label: Creator
content: Japan Ueda Performing Arts Company
label: Collector
content: Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Poster (31 x 42.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1925
container: label: Container
content: Folder 7166
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The poster was donated to the Smithsonian by Richard Woodbury in 1969.  It had been acquired by the donors' grandparents. The poster was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins in February 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7166
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Works of art
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Data furnished by Chang-su Houchins, of the Department of Anthropology
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Posters
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a poster advertising a circus.  It shows sketches of a variety of circus acts and includes a photomechanical portrait of Ueda, perhaps the head of the circus company.

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