This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/24/2022
Scrapbook of American circus snapshots including R.B.B.B. and other circuses. Circa 1938-40. Approximately 220 silver print snapshots (generally 4 ½ x 2 ¾”) in an oblong black buckram folio album (11 ¼ x 14 ½”). Numerous circus performers and subjects, including Mr. and Mrs. Terrell Jacobs (animal trainer known as the “Lion King”), circus wagons and railroad cars, sideshow banners and performers, animals and their keepers, and circus posters. With notations in white ink; circuses include Al. G. Barnes, Downie Bros., Sparks, Henry Bros., Wallace Bros., Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Tom Mix, and others. A few leaves and images trimmed, scattered staining.