Zykes and His Show
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Metropolitan Printing Company
label: maker
content: Rothengatter
notes: label: Description
content: This black and white print with tint shows a center tent with banners and a pennant which reads "Zykes." A barker holds the tent flap open as he urges the crowd to come inside. Other people are watching a magician in the foreground. On the left side of the print is a tavern with “…boken” painted on the sign above the door. The background contains a waterfall and buildings on top of a cliff. No information is known about Zykes, the show proprietor.
label: Description
content: This lithograph was produced by the Metropolitan Printing Company and E. Rothengatter. Emil Rothengatter (1848-1939) was a German-born artist and designer of circus posters who worked in cities including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896 he won a contest to design the flag of Cincinnati for a work he called “Zero of Burnet Woods.” However, controversy over whether Cincinnati should have a flag delayed the design’s formal adoption until 1940. Emil Rothengatter also wrote a book entitled <i>Art of Poster Making in the United States</i>, published in 1911. He died in New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: depicted
content: United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
topic: label: Subject
content: Drinking
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
label: Subject
content: Circus
label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3018
label: catalog number
content: 60.3018
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 15 1/2 in x 20 1/2 in; 39.37 cm x 52.07 cm