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Acrobats

Acrobats appeared in circuses, carnivals, and in many public spaces, both indoor and outdoor. They include daredevils, equilibriists and funambulists. Here is a list of images soon to be uploaded: Two Black Diablos With Bicycle Highwire [d] Arab Acrobatic Acts The Austins,Ted and Jackie “Hands on Skates on Rocker on Footballs” [d] Babusio & Dax [d] Daredevil Dan The Great Delrae “Stunts top of a 75 foot Pole” [d] The Two Diamonds “Whirls of Death” [d] The Eduardo’s [d] Daredevil Leslie Gadsby [d] The Original Hodginis [d] Human Cannonball Hurburts, Triple Bar Experts [d] Iron Jaw Ground Iron Stomach Kishizuna Imperial Japanese Troupe [d] Launtz, Human Fly [d] Londé and Tilly (G. Londé) [d] The Great Mario and Zoraide [d] Raglan [d] Rice and Elmer [d] Buddy Ross & Alice Ross [d] Soretty and Antionette [d] Thriller, Harry [d] Unus The Westwoods [d] Wible, Floyd, Midget [d] Wilno The Great Zacchinis ******* Unidentified Spiderweb Acrobat [d] Unidentified Unicyclist Juggler [d] Unidentified Acrobats At Illinois Fair Unidentified Upside-Down Wire-Walker [d]

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Eli Bowen Broadside, As The Wild Man

Added Sep 4 2023
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Mermaid Woman Equilibrist Balancing On Ball

Added Jul 16 2023
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Rigoberto Carillo, “The Sloth Man”

Added Oct 9 2022
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Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added Oct 24 2021
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Large and Morgner “An Act That Is Positively Unique”

Added Oct 24 2021
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Large & Morgner “Two Men and Two Legs”

Added Oct 24 2021
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“Zanelly,” The Acrobat Ice Cream Lid

Added Oct 3 2020
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Eli Bowen, Wife, Children and Pet Goat

Added Jan 7 2018
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Bayrooty Troupe

Added Nov 22 2016
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Floyd “Spider Boy”

Added Mar 29 2015
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Aquaro, Der Frosch Konig

Added Mar 29 2015
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Croak “Frog Boy”

Added Mar 29 2015
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Hoppie, The Frog Boy (2 Pages)

Added Mar 28 2015
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The Original Gutis

Added Feb 28 2015
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Monsieur Gouffe “Celebrated Man-Monkey”

Added Jan 8 2015
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Sherman Watkins “Wildman” and “Spider-Boy” Acrobat

Added Jan 3 2015
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Sherman Watkins “Wildman” and “Spider-Boy” Acrobat

Added Jan 3 2015
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Samuel Dixon Crossing Niagara

Added Dec 14 2014
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Lulu “The Man Bird”

Added Oct 28 2014
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Lulu “The Man Bird”

Added Oct 18 2014
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Zazel

Added Oct 18 2014
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Zazel, In Repose

Added Oct 18 2014
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Farini’s Lulu?

Added Oct 18 2014
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Farini, “El Niño” and Madame Farini

Added Oct 18 2014
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The Dorking’s Bicycle Act

Added Sep 28 2014
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Mr. Blondin, der Held des Niagra

Added Jul 26 2014
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Kinko “The Albino Wonder”

Added Jul 13 2014
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The Great Fishers Letterhead

Added Jul 7 2014
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The Great Fishers’ Mrs. Fisher

Added Jul 7 2014
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The Harper Brothers– One-Legged Brother Act by Eisenmann

Added Jun 26 2014
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The Wonderful Warrens Signboard

Added Mar 23 2014

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Dolly Dutton’s Sheet Music

Added May 31, 2025

Wonderland Circus Sideshow, Coney Island

Added December 31, 2024

1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

HORROR STORIES Pulp Cover Two-Headed Girl (December 1940)

Added January 28, 2024

Baby Irene “Fat Lady” Cashes In On Laughs (1950)

Added December 26, 2023

1937 Philadelphia Store Show Facade

Added July 22, 2023

Mr. & Mrs. Chauncy Morlan at Huber’s 14th Street Museum

Added July 21, 2023

Hulett Pest Control Spokesmen, Dwarfs John and Greg Rice

Added January 31, 2023

Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added October 24, 2021