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ca. 1910 COSTUMED CHILD CONTORTIONIST RUTH IRWIN in: ca. 1910 COSTUMED CHILD CONTORTIONIST RUTH IRWIN in CIRCUS SIDESHOW POSE ca. 1910 COSTUMED CHILD CONTORTIONIST RUTH IRWIN in CIRCUS SIDESHOW POSE Circa 1910 Vintage Real Photograph Postcard. Identific

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Circus Post Cards ANTIQUE VINTAGE & MODERN COLLECTIBLE: Details: Circus Post Cards ANTIQUE VINTAGE & MODERN COLLECTIBLE POSTCARDS Real Photo Linen Signed Estelline Sword Swallower Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Sideshow Performers Elephants This album fe

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Post Card Album CIRCUS VINTAGE ANTIQUE & MODERN: Details: Post Card Album CIRCUS VINTAGE ANTIQUE & MODERN COLLECTIBLE POSTCARDS Real Photo Linens Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Elephants Trains Sideshow Performers Parades This album features over

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JACK LE CLAIR PHOTOGRAPH AND POSTCARD: JACK LE CLAIR (1890-1971) WAS A VAUDEVILLE PERFORMER, RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM & BAILEY, AND WAS CREDITED WITH DEVELOPING MANY CLOWN GAGS, MANY OF WHICH ARE STILL USED TODAY. FATHER OF JACKIE LE C

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Four Antique Albums: Photographs & Postcards: Group of four finely bound antique European albums: one containing a multitude of travel photographs, depicting scenes as disparate as a temple in Canton and an execution in Shanghai, titled Reise 190

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Peter Schuyler Felt Pad, Real Photograph Postcards and: Postcards are all rodeo Pendleton, Pet Cigarettes ad, Real photographs and tin type. Good to Excellent condition.

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Group of Circus Photographs, Postcards, and Other: Group of Circus Photographs, Postcards, and Other Ephemera. Circa 1890s—1920s. Fifteen pieces, including conjoined twins RPPC; Great Binks Shows RPPC; Zeynard Lilliputian Troupe postcard; A Minister

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lot of black and white photograph postcards never used: lot of black and white photograph postcards never used

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Photograph Postcards: Group of 26 photograph postcards plus 8 correspondence postcards.

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Real photograph postcards: Real photograph postcards

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Rare Photograph Postcard of the Hamilton & Robbins: Rare Photograph Postcard of the Hamilton & Robbins Pottery, New Geneva, Postmarked 1907, depicting two potters applying handles to jugs sitting atop a board placed on a barrel, behind a stoneware food

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CARUSO, ENRICO. Photograph postcard Signed,: CARUSO, ENRICO. Photograph postcard Signed, snapshot showing him seated in a car beside race car driver Ralph DePalma [likely at the 1910 American Grand Prize auto race held in Savannah, GA, on Novemb

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CARUSO, ENRICO. Photograph postcard Signed, with a: CARUSO, ENRICO. Photograph postcard Signed, with a holograph note on verso, reproduction of a painted half-length group portrait by Tade Styka, showing him flanked by Titta Ruffo and Feodor Chaliapin,

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MASCAGNI, PIETRO. Photograph postcard Signed and: MASCAGNI, PIETRO. Photograph postcard Signed and Inscribed, "To Mr. Leo Riemens, as a reminder, / P Mascagni L'Aja. 10. 11. 1938," in Italian, in green ink, bust portrait by Ballerini & Fratini, showi

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Photograph Postcard Early Baseball Team, 1910: Item: Real Photograph PostcardDepiction of an early baseball team in uniform with gloves, bat, baseball etc. Date: 1910 Origin: Ohio The central figure has the letter "B" on his uniform at shoulders.

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Photograph Postcard of Football Team, 1909: Item: Real Photograph Postcard Subject: Fredericktown, Ohio football team in uniform with "'09" on the football Date: 1909 Pencil writing on border, "Fredricktown, O.". Pencil written identification o

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Sideshow Performer Photographs, Postcards, and Pitchbooks. Over a dozen pieces, including pitchbooks for Betty Broadbent tattooed lady (inscribed and signed); Fifi sheep-headed beauty; Francesco Lentini three-legged wonder; Francies Benton “male and female”; signed and inscribed photograph of Major Satyrdae “man with the tattooed tits” and fire-eater; inscribed and signed photo of R.H. Skeets Hubbard (pulling wagon with eyelids); snapshot of girl with no arms or legs; and others. Most pitchbooks are laminated, and sold as is. Both signed photos (8 x 10”) are from the 1939 New York World’s Fair.