Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A collection of artefacts and rare pictures about the history of the circus in New York – including Jacob Harris’s ...

Susan Jacobson, left, and Bettie Lampman, right, settle themselves on their trapezes as Laurie Magee, ring mistress, makes with the "Ladeez and gentlemen!" at a backyard circus performed in August ...

7-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (19.1 x 24.1 cm) (image) 8 x 10 inches (sheet) ...

14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.), Frame: 21 x 17 x 1 1/2 in. (53.3 x 43.2 x 3.8 cm.) ...