King Bros Circus Seals – Unframed One Sheet c. 1950

  Printed by The Enquirer Printing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

This vintage the King Brothers Circus unframed one-sheet poster (42 inches tall by 28 inches wide) in 4 colors (yellow, red, blue, black) is from a Chico, California show feature seals playing horns, balancing beach balls and flaming batons. NOTE: Although the artwork is unsigned on this poster, another poster with a nearly identical rendering is signed “Roland Butler”.

This circus and many others like it drove to and set up on a multi-acre empty lot called Hahn Field.  The poster mis-spelled the name Hahn.  I know because I went to school with Mark Hahn for many years.  The site is now a Chico State College apartment complex called “The Zoo” in honor of it’s circus history.