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Collection Reference Number GLC02912.02.02
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Portraits of circus performers
Date 1870s
Document Type Photograph
Content Description Portrait subjects include Capt. Jack Bassett, Major and Mrs. Ray (ca. 1891), Miss Millie La Mar, Lalloo, and Prince Nicholi ("The Little Russian Prince"). Photographers include Wendt of Boonton, N.J.; Obermuller and Kern of New York; and Eisenmann, also of New York. Previously identified as photographs of "circus freaks."
Subjects Circus  Health and Medical  
Place written [various places]
Theme Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945