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A photo with similar subject matter is at website www.shorpy.com/node/2248 It is described as "Posters advertising a 1936 circus near Lynchburg, South Carolina. 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration."

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Kcity, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Saul Zackson: You have a sharp eye! The photograph on Shorpy is also from the Library of Congress Farm Security Administration, and is found in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog here. Other photographs from the same series are available as well: one, two and three. Enjoy!

The Downie Family Circus belonged to my great grandparents! This is wonderful to find - thank you!

sfgirlbybay: How wonderful that you were able to track down this family connection! As I linked above, we have a few other images of this building covered with advertising for the Downie Bros. Circus. Here are those links again: one, two and three. I hope you enjoy them!

article on the process of photochrom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom "A litho stone is coated with a thin layer of purified bitumen dissolved in benzene. A reversed half-tone negative is then pressed against this light-sensitive coating and an exposure in daylight made (taking from 10–30 minutes in summer, to several hours in winter). The bitumen hardens and becomes resistant to normal solvents in proportion to the light. The coating is then washed in turpentine solutions, removing the unhardened bitumen. It is then retouched in the tonal scale of the chosen color to strengthen or soften the tones as required. Each tint needs a separate stone bearing the appropriate retouched image, and prints are usually produced by at least six, and more commonly from 10 to 15 tint stones.[4]"

Now the slate museum, www.panoramio.com/photo/24574290