[Texas Ella]

Coming! Texas Ella Tent Show Texas Kid Cowboys! Cowgirls! See Them Rope and Ride Them Horses! Wild West Show [caption title]

Continental, Oh. Curtiss Showprint, [ca. 1930s]. Illustrated broadside, 24 x 9 inches. Old folds, minor toning, moderate edge wear, some chipping to edges, a handful of closed edge tears, a few repaired on verso. Good. Item #2394

A rare broadside advertising a "tent show" performance by Texas Ella and her traveling Wild West show in Ohio. Texas Ella's troupe included the trick roper named the Texas Kid, January the "Famous Bucking Mule," a singer named Arizona Rose, and a blackface comedian named "Red Head Willie from Tail Holt, Texas," and a string band, all of whom are mentioned on the broadside. Interestingly, Red Head Willie is the only performer pictured here, in his typical blackface costume. Apropos to the times, but certainly incongruous to the modern day, the show is advertised as "A Clean Entertainment for the Whole Family." Possibly a unique survival, advertising an obscure 20th-century Wild West troupe, with no copies in OCLC.

Price: $450.00