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Two acrobats performing on a plinth. Photographic postcard, 19--.

Four acrobats performing outdoors in Luxembourg. Process print, 192-.

"The Two Condons", acrobats. Photograph, 1951.

Three acrobats, called "Les Poly-Toss". Process print, 192-.

Four young woman acrobats (?), posing on a bar in a photographic studio.

Maxi Schommer.

A street performer standing on a disc balancing three pots on his head. Watercolour by an Indian artist.

Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.

The three Mouliers, acrobats. Photographic postcard, 19--.

A man riding astride two galloping horses blows bubbles from a pipe. Line block process print.

Girl acrobats forming the shape of a horse at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.

Practical acrobatics : descriptions of tumbling and acrobatic tricks and exercises from single movements to more difficult combinations / by Bertram S. Ash, illustrated with photographs.

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Acrobats

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Images referencing Acrobats

Works from the collections

Girl acrobats forming the shape of a horse at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.

Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.

Four acrobats performing outdoors in Luxembourg. Process print, 192-.

Practical acrobatics : descriptions of tumbling and acrobatic tricks and exercises from single movements to more difficult combinations / by Bertram S. Ash, illustrated with photographs.

Four young woman acrobats (?), posing on a bar in a photographic studio.

Acrobats

Images from the collections

Images referencing Acrobats

Works from the collections

Girl acrobats forming the shape of a horse at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.

Just arrived at this place, and to be exhibited in a large and commodious caravan, during the fair : that wonderful American youth, Mr. Leach ... the shortest person in the world!.

Four acrobats performing outdoors in Luxembourg. Process print, 192-.

Practical acrobatics : descriptions of tumbling and acrobatic tricks and exercises from single movements to more difficult combinations / by Bertram S. Ash, illustrated with photographs.

Four young woman acrobats (?), posing on a bar in a photographic studio.

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