[CIRCUS]. A scrapbook of circus dancers and ?side show girls? snapshots and photographs. Circa 1930s/40s. Over 80 photographs, mounted on oblong 4to album pages. Wonderful collection featuring images of scantily-clad and theatrically dressed women of American sideshows and circuses, including Cole Bros. and Sells-Floto. Includes images from Chicago?s Century of Progress (1933-34) and across the country, including San Francisco?s Chinatown, a view of Hollywood?s Egyptian Theatre fa?ade; and other circus imagery including parades, elephants, wagons, ticket stands, trains, tent interiors and exteriors, performers, a snake charmer, and others. Silver prints, sizes generally 3 ? x 3 ? to 9 ? x 7 ??. (Album disbound, the pages individually inserted in plastic album sleeves). An outstanding vernacular photographic record including a number of scarce images of risqu? circus ?bump and grind? dance shows. Several photos in this scrapbook were published in The Circus: 1870-1950 (Taschen, 2008), pp. 402-403.