Photographs of circus performers, including Tom Thumb, circus set-up, etc.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.068 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Photograph Date: 1862-1920s Pagination: 18 photographs Order a Copy
Three carte de visites, two of Tom Thumb and wife. Twelve cabinet cards featuring various circus performers, most wearing street clothes. Three 20th Century 8x10 prints ca. 1919. One shows setting up of the midway, another is of Ruth Cohen and her horse Romo and the third is of a woman sitting on a white horse with a dozen birds perched on both the woman and the horse. Separate inventory exists.
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