VARIOUS AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

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VARIOUS AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

Selected Circus Images

An album of approximately 275 albumen, gelatin silver cabinet cards and gelatin silver prints accompanied by approximately 220 gelatin silver prints. 1890s-early 1950s. Many of the prints in the ablum are indentified and dated in the negative; many with credit stamps on the verso; the majority identified in white ink on the album pages. Varying sizes from 2½ x 3in. to 9 3/8 x 7½in. (495)

拍品专文

The subjects depicted include the Campbell Bros. Circus from 1897 to 1905; the 1907 train wreck of the Campbell Bros. Circus; the Tom Mix Circus of 1937; the Al G. Barnes Circus of 1930; the Sparks Circus of 1930; the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus of 1930, in addition to portraits of individuals such as the "Snake King"; "Doletta" Smallest Woman of the World, Mother of Three Children; "Princess Mary Galucci", 31 inches High; "Mrs. Aeutumupa - Hindu Snake Queen" of Barnum & Bailey; "Madame Devere", Barnum's Original Bearded Lady with her Husband of 1894; "Walter Main - Hermaphrodite" - of Campbell Bros.; Lindy Jeal who Rode unitl 70 years; and Flossie Leblanche who lifted 12 men on her back, among others.