1890s-1900s European circus performers. CDV. Private Collection
The CDV is blank, back and front, but someone wrote their names and even the circus they toured with. Unfortunately I haven’t found info on either the circus or this pair of dancers/circus performers. I can’t even begin to imagine what their lives were like performing on the road back then. What do you think, siblings or a couple? It would make sense to imagine siblings growing up training how to dance, and they look similar.
Robert og Hilda Smith
Cirkus Frank C. Louis
Bowlers And High Collars 
June 30th, 2015 at 9:26 pm
God I love circus photos! I have one or two myself. I think you could be right that they are siblings. What was the name of the troupe? Nothing in any newspapers? That is the only place I have found information on old circuses that toured Australia. A general search on Google doesn’t bring up much.
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June 30th, 2015 at 10:13 pm
I’ve only tried Google. To me this looks like they were English touring Europe, and a person who speaks another language – which I don’t know, wrote their name. If I were in Europe I guess it’d be easier. Maybe it was a French circus, by the name.
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July 1st, 2015 at 1:28 am
Try Trove.gov.au they may have toured Australia . It is free to search
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July 1st, 2015 at 1:30 am
Oh, very cool! Thank you. :) Will check it out tomorrow. To find out they went all the way to Australia would be something to discover!
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