Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers enormous shows combined

Women circus performers and clowns with woman ringleader wearing tuxedo and top hat.
Caption continues: Leap year ladies of laughter "Variable as the shade by the light quivering aspen made."
Caption continues: See the new woman in a novel sphere, introducing the three great equestriennes of the day.
Caption continues: The only clown women who wear the comic crown.
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Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 202.