Strobridge & Co. Lith.
Pioneered American circus poster lithography
The Strobridge Lithographing Company was a maker of advertisement posters and lithographs founded in 1847 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company is named after Hines Strobridge who only joined the then stationery store in 1854 when it was known as Middleton, Wallace and Company, after its founding partners E. C. Middleton and W. R. Wallace. In 1859, the company changed its name to Middleton, Strobridge and Company. Strobridge acquired full ownership from his partners after the American Civil War. He built the company's first factory in 1884 on the Miami–Erie Canal in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine. Strobridge lithographs later became a popular method of advertisement for circuses and theaters.
Artworks by this artist (332 total)
- Stonewall Jackson, bust portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform 1877
- The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth–The Mahdi or for the Victoria Cross–Scene 3d–War in the Soudan … 1897
- Sells Brothers enormous united shows… The wonderful cynocephalus ape in remarkable equestrian acts … 1895
- The Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great shows consolidated. The Orfords. William and Ella Orford 1897
- The Barnum and Bailey’s grand military production. Scene 2D 1897
- The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth, the world’s largest, grandest, best amusement institution 1899
- Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth The only baby giraffe in America 1916
- Frederick Bancroft, prince of magicians 2 1895
- Procession of horses, sheep, and cows on a race track 1891
- Ruth’s devotion, a domestic melodrama by Elliott Barnes 1885
- Sells Brothers and Barrett. The monkey’s trip to the derby 1890
- Ulysses S. Grant, bust portrait, facing right, wearing suit 1877
- Spring beauties
- The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth–L’Auto Bolide thrilling dip of death 1905
- Discovered at last ‘Day and night tobacco’ 1897
- Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe. 1914
- Ask for ‘Kast Iron’ suit, (guaranteed not to rip) 1894
- Hoyt’s A stranger in New York 2 1897
- The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth–Troupe of very remarkable trained pigs 1898
- Hoyt’s A stranger in New York 1897