Order By PhoneAbout Our P.T. Barnum's Circus Ad Vintage Photograph. The Great Roman Hippodrome! Circus ad dates back to 1855. Eventually the circus became known as the famous Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. Barnum got his start when he purchased a slave woman who was blind and paralyzed and he claimed that she was 160 years old and the nurse of our first president, George Washington. He put her on display. Among his display were dwarfs, a mermaid and Siamese twins. Add some instant history to your walls with our collection of vintge images from the late 19th and early 20th century. Take a glimpse at the world in which our ancestors lived - the people, their struggle, their play, and their time in between. A mosaic of images depicting those hard and eventful years of our grandparents and great grandparents, presented, as they would appear back in those rough and tumble days.
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