Founded in 1890 by F.J. Walker and a partner as Erie Show Printing Company, this firm out of Erie, Pennsylvania originally printed for small traveling shows. Because they offered primarily stock designs, the cost of Erie’s lithographs was often less than some of the larger printing firms.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Erie became one of the leading printers for the traveling show industry, handling much of the paper printed for the shows of the American Circus Corporation and also the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows.
In Collection: Circus Lithographs (View all 429)
Russell, Morgan & Co. (American, 19th/20th century)
Adolf Friedländer Lith. (German, 19th/20th century)
Courier Litho. Co. (American, 19th/20th Century)
Erie Litho Co. (American, 19th/20th century)
Courier Litho. Co. (American, 19th/20th Century)
Russell, Morgan & Co. (American, 19th/20th century)
Erie Litho Co. (American, 19th/20th century)
Gibson & Co. Lith (American, 19th Century)
Riverside Printing Co. (American, 19th/20th century)