RARE CARNIVAL BANNERS AND BROADSIDES
Circa 1905
Found in a barn in Orleans, Massachusetts. Includes:
1) Red cotton banner with "Admission 10¢." around an image of a mermaid.
2) Red cotton banner with "Today 5¢".
3-4) Two cardboard broadsides "Please Read Carefully This strange creature was captured alive on the coast of Brazil, South America, June 17, 1904 [...]".
5) Cardboard broadside "Please Read Carefully Beautiful Mermaid said to have been captured alive on the coast of Brazil, South America, June 17, 1904 [...]".
Banners to 50" x 28". Broadsides 14.5" x 11".

Stains, holes, one broadside just a partial

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