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

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2047056i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Three acrobats, called "Les Poly-Toss". Process print, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

According to L'expres du midi, Toulouse edition, 29 March 1921, Les Poly-Toss performed at the Cirque Palace, Toulouse, in March 1921

Publication/Creation

[France?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 postcard : process print ; 13.9 x 9.1 cm

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Les Poly-Toss

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "To viewers in a later time, the costumes and styles of circus performers such as this troupe of acrobats may have an unintentionally comic aspect. However, at the time this trio was appearing in the early 1920s, the sight of so much naked flesh on view in any public place would have made them appear more risqué than comic."

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2047056i

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