Tompkins Real Wild West Poster
$3,500.00
Donaldson Lithograph Company
1914
Mint and framed archivally using the best of materials
30 x 44" Framed
Provenance: Private collection Upstate New York
Charles H. Tompkins, a Texas roper and rider extraordinaire directed the Congress of Champion Ropers and Riders at the St. Louis Worlds Fair in 1904. From 1913 to 1917 Tompkins and his wife operated Real Wild West and Frontier Exhibition in combination with the Cooper-Whitbys circus. Their show closed at the beginning of World War I.
It included aerial wire and acrobatic acts, trick bicycle riding, and trained animals acts. His was a mix of Wild West Show and European circus. Tompkins was also a good friend of a vaudeville performer, humorist, and social commentator Will Rogers. Rare.