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Lot 299
[CIRCUS - PHOTOGRAPHY]. Bobby Gable's Circus Album, 1934.
Estimate: $400 - $600
Sold for
$540
Sold Price includes BP
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[CIRCUS - PHOTOGRAPHY]. Bobby Gable's Circus Album, 1934. Oblong 4to leather photograph album (10 x 12"), approximately 45 leaves with sepia-toned snapshot photographs of circus performers, animals, and equipment, many Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey, and also Sells-Floto, Hagenbeck-Wallace, and others; affixed with corner mounts (sizes vary, generally 5 1/2 x 3 3/4"). With a hand-colored title page; most images with small sticker caption labels, some with dates.
Subjects include Emmett Kelly, Rudy Rudynoff, Dorothy Herbert, Con Colleano, Ella and Fred Bradna, Clyde Beatty, Poodles Hanneford, The Reiffenach Troupe, Tom Mix, Felix Adler, and more.
Condition
Some pages with missing/removed photos; binding well worn.
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