Showing posts with label Cabinet Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cabinet Card. Show all posts

Nellie Bellmore Female Trapeze Artist 1895 Circus Cabinet Card Pair by Frank Wendt

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Nellie Bellmore Female Trapeze Artist 1895 Circus Cabinet Card Pair by Frank Wendt.  Wendt was understudy to famed "circus freak...

Blackface Theater. Young Women and Children of Vaudeville photographs by Frank Wendt

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There are numerous studies and photographs of blackface in the American theater, but it is a bit less common to see women…and I...

Canadian Boys in Dresses

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Will Forsyth's twin sons Arther and Earle.  Photo by J. H. Blome from Ashcroft, British Columbia circa 1900. According to the site HE...

Oddities Antiques and the Curiosities Business Not Dead Yet Reality Shows of Pickers Spur Interest in Antiques

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  To be honest, I am not sure if "OUF" is a name or a group of initials, but unfortunately she has passed away.  Memorial c...
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Incongruous Group of Boxers and Banjo Cabinet Card Photograph collection Jim Linderman

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Original Cabinet Card Photograph Circa 1880 Collection Jim Linderman

"Show Business" by Frank Wendt circa 1890 collection Jim Linderman

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The old Razzle Dazzle   Cabinet Card Photograph by Frank Wendt circa 1890 Collection Jim Linderman Books and ebooks by Jim Linderm...

Champion Sword Swallower of the World Collection Jim Linderman Cabinet Card

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Melle Clifford Champion Sword Swallower of the World Cabinet Card by Frank Wendt Circa 1900 Collection Jim Linderman DULL TOOL DIM BULB ...

Untitled (Longest Hair) Cabinet Card c. 1890 Collection Jim Linderman

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Anonymous cabinet card photograph, circa 1890 collection Jim Linderman DULL TOOL DIM BULB BOOKS AND EBOOKS HERE Tweet

Pair of ORIGINAL 19th Century Painted Photographer Studio Backdrops (For Sale)

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I put together a book on Painted Backdrops and their use in the transitional period from painting to photography last year, it is a modest a...
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The World's Most Wonderful Horses Frank Wendt and The Wondrous World of Wendt Carnival, Show and Sideshow Horse Photograph Cabinet Cards

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These pictures were taken during the the agrarian United States on the cusp of Industrial Society. The horse played a role in both, and it ...

Sideshow Herpetology From the Past (Antique Dames with Snakes) Summer "Retread Reread"

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Howdy, I'm still taking a short break to "work" on other projects, so this post slithers back from the past. Browse OTHER t...

A Giant Man with a Sad (dog) Tail

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"Pet refuses to leave Master's bier; derrick Needed to Lower Coffin" 1922 Captain George Auger Cabinet Card by Frank Wendt, ...

Wendts upon Wendts! Composite Cabinet Card of a Tiny Contortionist

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Frank Wendt, who I have devoted an entire site to HERE composed this cabinet card photograph made up of eight earlier photos he took of the...

Frank Wendt Ida Iva and Eva the Hanna Triplets

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The beautiful Ida, Iva and Eva Hanna were in the business from age 10 months old. As Iva explained in 1967 from her retirement town of St. A...
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Not all Sideshow Freaks were Human Frank Wendt

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Linus II had a 10 foot double mane and a 16 foot tail. He was owned by W. A. Rutherford of Marion, Oregon, and presumably won many ribbon...
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