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[LETTERHEAD] Theatrical Letterhead Scrapbook. 1890s. Folio album likely kept by the acrobatic team of The Hugheses (T. Benton and Sallie), with embossed color cover containing approximately 100 elaborate letterheads of variety acts including Imro Fox the conjurer (bearing a young portrait of the magician), Whiting and Shepard the “trick leapers,” The Two Fantas (acrobats), May Foster the strongwoman, Walter L. Main’s circus, Amati and her bicycle dance, various minstrel shows, acrobats, equilibrists, Billy LeCaron the “walking advertiser,” and a scattered assortment of clippings on related subjects, a program for the Great Wallace Shows circus, and one tattered two-color broadside for Doutrick & McVey’s California Company (featuring Arcaris the knife thrower, among others). Book disbound, pages chipped, correspondence cut away, with letterheads in generally good condition. In a cloth folding box.