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[ASIAN – CONTORTIONISTS]. Five photographs of contortionist...

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[ASIAN – CONTORTIONISTS]. Five photographs of contortionists and acrobats. Circa late 19th/early 20th century. Photographs with hand-coloring, on cardstock mounts, two titled in the negative and three with inked captions on the mount. Depicting young female and male acrobats, contortionists, and equilibrists. Prints 8 x 10 ½”; mounts generally 11 x 14”. One photograph in this lot, “Tumblers” was published in The Circus: 1870-1950 (Taschen, 2008), p. 182.

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[ASIAN – CONTORTIONISTS]. Five photographs of contortionist...

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