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Sat, Jun 26, 2021 12:00PM EDT
Lot 126

Barnum & Bailey Circus Photo Scrapbook Compiled by Charles Andress.

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Barnum & Bailey Circus Photo Scrapbook Compiled by Charles Andress. 1890s/1900s. Half-leather scrapbook (6 ? x 10 ??), bearing a typed presentation slip from Andress to Mr. R.F. Hamilton on the front pastedown, dated 1905. Contains 46 mounted photographs, one postcard, a cabinet photo, a few clippings, and a piece of early Barnum & Bailey letterhead with German to English translations of simple phrases (perhaps in Hamilton?s hand). Extraordinary range of images including unloading circus trains; trained horses; little people and giants; clowns; wagons on parade; performances; Native Americans; stunt bicyclist ?looping the loop?; sweeping view of tents and sideshow banners; trained dogs; wild animal wagon cage; and acrobats. Laid in cabinet photo of caricaturist Frank P.W. Bellew. Images generally one per page, average size 4 x 6 3/8?. R.F. Hamilton, to whom this scrapbook was presented, was the head of the publicity department at Barnum & Bailey.