Circus / Barnum / Horseback Riding / Cycling / Animal Traine - Lot 33

Circus / Barnum / Horseback Riding / Cycling / Animal Trainer Set consisting of 10 postcards, photographs, and vintage advertisements, accompanied by a program booklet: - 5 postcards featuring artistic track cycling, the Geraldson acrobats (on Arliguie), “Satan—Looping the Loop,” Brucks and Brucks, and Gervaise’s comical bicycles / Chromolithograph, white clown entrance, Liège / Skating-Concerts chromolithographic poster, 15 Rue Blanche, the Thielgo family and the penny-farthing, 16 x 22 cm (small tear at bottom right) / Illustrated blank letterhead (reproduction of their poster), “Suzy and Léo Daulay, tightrope cyclists,” 1920 (shows signs of wear) / Trinquart photograph, “Lion Tamer,” Paris, 1867, Antoine René, Blois (1814–1871), 6 x 10 cm / Photo card, trapeze artist with her two students. Photo by Poulain, circa 1875, 10.5 x 6 cm - Italian-style program album “Day by Day with Barnum and Bailey – Seasons 1903–1904,” compiled and published by Charles Andress. 112 illustrated pages featuring the Ancillotti cycling troupe, Boris Fridkin’s troupe, the Cossack Troupe, Edward Greenwood, the tattooed man, the bearded woman, Grace Gilbert, etc. Publisher’s binding with gold stamping. 17 x 26.5 cm (shows signs of wear)