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High Wire Act
High Wire Act
High Wire Act

High Wire Act

Photographer
Date1892
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions6 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (15.9 × 21 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.160.B
DescriptionA highwire artist performs above the race track at the New Mexico Territorial Fairgrounds near the intersection of West Central Avenue and Rio Grande Boulevard in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spectators watch from the wooden grandstand and from the ground. Horse-drawn carriages are waiting in the foreground. The performer is hanging from a trapeze over the grandstand.

The top left corner of the glass plate negative is broken.
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