BARNUM & BAILEY COMBINED SHOWS, INC.” logo with two elephants and the “THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH” emblem at the top of the first page. The exercises served as final auditions before Irvin Feld, president and producer; Kenneth Feld, co-producer; Clown College dean Bill Ballantine; and an invited audience of five hundred guests.
The handwritten ink remains legible, with only slight fading.
The item’s most notable physical characteristic is that all text, both the printed letterhead and the typewritten correspondence, appears as a mirror image, strongly indicating that this is a carbon copy viewed from the verso of the original sheet, a common office practice for retaining records before the widespread adoption of photocopying.
The item’s most notable physical characteristic is that all text, both the printed letterhead and the typewritten correspondence, appears as a mirror image, strongly indicating that this is a carbon copy viewed from the verso of the original sheet, a common office practice for retaining records before the widespread adoption of photocopying.
