Two children called Lola and May, Hanneford’s Canadian Circus, circa 1910. Image Source: Cooper Photographic Collection
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Clown beside a wagon, The Grand Circus, circa 1910. Image Source: Cooper Photographic Collection
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Two clowns in front of a wagon, circa 1910. Image Source: Cooper Photographic Collection
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A female contortionist, 1925. Image Source: General Photographic Agency / Stringer
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Man crushes a block placed on the stomach of a strongman, 1930. Image Source: Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
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Facial contortionist Alfred Hyland, gurning during an exhibition in Glasgow, 1938. Image Source: Fox Photos / Stringer
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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
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Ruslan Daurbekov Moscow State Circus 1988. Photo by Peter Lavery
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Five Blackpool Tower Circusettes in their changing room Blackpool Tower 1974. Photo by Peter Lavery
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