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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus / Miss Dorothy Herbert. Circa 1934. Offset color lithograph portrait of the “World’s most daring horsewoman” with her horse, Satan. 41 x 27”. Backed with grommet holes in top two corners. Minor foxing, minimal edgewear with chipping top right. Paper residue from date-tail removal over lower margin. B+.This image of Dorothy Herbert was featured on the front cover of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’s 1934 program book, the first time in the circus’s history that any individual performer’s image was used in this way.