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Aerialists
Person who performs acrobatics high above the ground on a tightrope or trapezes
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Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
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Date: [1880?]
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A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
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Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]
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Reference: 576529i
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Mexico: acrobats dressed as eagles fly around a pole. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
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Date: [1820]
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Reference: 2498740i
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