Cole Bros. Circus [picture] : the great Con Colleano, world's greatest wire artist performing forward and backward somersaults on the wire
- Bib ID:
- 546070
- Format:
- Picture
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. POSTER 2022-6050 copy
- Description:
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- [United States?] : Cole Bros Circus, [1945]
- 1 poster : col. port. ; 107 cm.
- Summary:
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"Con Colleano, 'The Wizard of the Wire,' was an Indigenous tightrope walker from New South Wales; after several performances in South Africa, he adopted the Spanish toreador persona he'd carry for the rest of his career. He was soon noticed by Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for many years before the war. This poster finds him at the close of World War II performing with the Cole Bros. Circus, which suffered two circus-train crashes that year." -Poster Auctions International, sale 78, June 2019.
- Notes:
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- Artist's impression of Colleano balancing on the trapeze wire.
- POSTER 2022-6050 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136767748
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cole Bros. Circus
- Also Titled:
- Great Con Colleano, the world's greatest wire artist performing forward and backward somsersaults on the wire
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- Since 2015 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Artistic
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1945
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