May Wirth
Artist
Frederick Whitman Glasier
(American, 1866 – 1950)
Date1926
Mediumglass
Dimensions5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
ClassificationPhotographs
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1963
Object number1963.1.1646
A female performer demonstrating a handstand on the back of a standing horse while a male attendant stands at the front of the horse. Tents and props can bee send around the figures. Etched into the negative are the performer's name, May Wirth, and the name a date of the circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1926.
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The Strobridge Lithographing Company
1917
The Strobridge Lithographing Company
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