Two children called Lola and May, Hanneford’s Canadian Circus, circa 1910. Image Source: Cooper Photographic Collection
Clown beside a wagon, The Grand Circus, circa 1910. Image Source: Cooper Photographic Collection
Two clowns in front of a wagon, circa 1910. Image Source: Cooper Photographic Collection
A female contortionist, 1925. Image Source: General Photographic Agency / Stringer
Man crushes a block placed on the stomach of a strongman, 1930. Image Source: Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
Facial contortionist Alfred Hyland, gurning during an exhibition in Glasgow, 1938. Image Source: Fox Photos / Stringer
Czech showman Baron Richard Nowak, 19, stands 21 inches high & weighs 17 lbs., blowing on a trumpet as he nestles inside tuba player of the Hamid-Morton Circus, 1940. Image Source: John Phillips / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images
Ruslan Daurbekov Moscow State Circus 1988. Photo by Peter Lavery
Five Blackpool Tower Circusettes in their changing room Blackpool Tower 1974. Photo by Peter Lavery
