This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/26/2021
Large Collection of Circus Performer Photo Negatives. American, bulk mid-1950s-1960. Approximately 50 envelopes containing hundreds of images, including both individual negatives and strips. Date, circus, and location annotated in pencil on the outside of each envelope, and including Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey; Mills Bros.; Hagen Bros.; Polack Bros.; Clyde Beatty; Cristiani Bros.; Carson & Barnes; Harold Bros.; and a few others. Numerous subjects represented, mostly individual and small group portraits of female and male performers in theatrical costumes, sometimes posing with elephants and other animals, in cases during a performance. Some sideshow performers represented. Individual negatives generally 5 x 3 7/8”. Strips usually by threes, each image 2 ¼ x 2 ¼”. A tremendous archive of images by a talented photographer. From the collection of Carl H. “Pop” Haussman.