(CIRCUS) Binder containing approximately 65 extraordinary ph

Sale 1925 - Lot 21

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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000

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Binder containing approximately 65 extraordinary photographs of circus performers associated with Barnum's Museum and Ringling Brothers, comprising 21 cabinet cards and 46 carte-de-visite-size images, with 10 by eisenmann<>, several by brady/anthony<>, as well as a half stereo view of Barnum's Great Roman Hippodrome. Albumen printing-out paper, and silver prints, many with the photographers' credits; a few are hand-colored.1860s-1910s

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This personal collection of original photographs, which is largely composed of 19th-century "freaks," provides a colorful pictorial history of the sideshow. Carefully researched and annotated each sleeve contains portraits of notable figures as well as caption information about "the peerless prodigies of physical phenomena and great presentation of marvelous living human curiosities."<