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Annie Oakley
 
Gallery: Annie Oakley Promotional Posters

In 1885, Annie Oakley began an association with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show -- despite some hesitation on Cody's part about hiring a woman. The five-foot-tall sharpshooter's star was on the rise; that season, she performed in front of 150,000 people in 40 cities. The following year, the show entertained almost 360,000 people at its summer location on Staten Island, New York, and soon Oakley's fame was known far and wide. She would be a top attraction with the Wild West for seventeen years.

Browse a selection of posters promoting Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

Program from Annie Oakley's first season with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show A cigarette-card colored lithograph of Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Carver, and Captain Adam Bogardus A famous poster of Annie Oakley from 1901, towards the end of her career with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
This poster captures an action moment from Annie Oakley's shooting act This is the cover of a British souvenir booklet about Annie Oakley called The Rifle Queen One of the best known Annie Oakley posters, for Buffalo Bill's Wild West, this depicts her taking aim at a flying object

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