[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Five tintypes of showmen, women, and circus performers. Circa 1860s/80s. Includes a half-plate tintype of two young male performers in theatrical costumes (image well worn), 5 ? x 4?; and four others (each approx. 3 3/8 x 2 ??) , including two women in theatrical dresses and costume, full-length portraits; a short-stature mustachioed man with showman?s bearing in unusually high top hat, with cane, with two women; and a man, seated by a memorial stand, lettered in German, Zur Erinnerung an Wildbad 1889.