Description: (CIRCUS) A hand-picked archive of more than 110 vintage high-performance photographs of costumed clowns, daredevil acts, and animal performances. With rare photographs depicting a broad array of American performers: a boisterous barker, clowns at play, a bearded lady, the ringmaster with basket horses, equestrian performers, loop-the-loop bicyclists, bareback riders, and animal acts, as well as behind-the-scenes images at Sells-Floto Circus, the Barnum & Bailey ticket wagon, Ringling Bros. advance advertising car, ornate circus wagons, and more. Albumen (5), sepia-toned silver, ferrotyped silver, and silver prints, the images measuring 4x2¾ to 7¾x9¾ inches (10.1x7 to 19.7x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, a few with a photographer's credit in the negative, and most with hand stamps, labels, and handwritten notations on verso. 1860s-1930s