2.5″ x 4″. Some minor smudges on front and back. Small brown mark on top left. Check out my other listing for more similar items. Front stamped in purple: Treacy Melrose of Melrose Family. Reverse: Baker Art Gallery, Metropolitan Opera Block, 163 & 167 So. High Street, Columbus, Ohio. 1 This rare CDV features the young daughter of a family high-wire bicycle circus act. The family group performed in the late 1800’s and according to online records, they were with the Adam Forepaugh & Sells Circus, and possibly with the Wallace & Anderson Circus. 2 Baker’ Art Gallery in Columbus, Ohio was a well known and respected photography studio known for taking portraits of Kyrle Bellew, William McKinley, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Annie Oakley, amongst others. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Photographic Images\Photographs”. The seller is “theyardsaleking” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Republic of Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.
- Unit of Sale: Single Piece
- Antique: Yes
- Image Orientation: Portrait
- Image Color: Sepia
- Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
- Subject: Circus Freak, PT Barnum, Actors, Circus
- Type: Photograph
- Format: Carte de Visite (CDV)
- Year of Production: 1870 – 1880’s
- Photographer: Lorenzo Baker
- Theme: Portrait, People, History
- Features: Adam Forepaugh & Sells Circus performer
- Featured Person/Artist: Treacy Melrose of Melrose Family
- Time Period Manufactured: 1850-1899
- Production Technique: Albumen Print
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States