Hobart’s big united circus acts

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  Image of three different acrobatic acts being performed before spectators under a circus tent: two male acrobats balancing on a stack of tables, three female circus performers standing upside down on a mirror suspended from the ceiling, and six male acrobats performing balancing acts with poles; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey in upper left corner.

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