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Image Not Available for Child Hanging Upside Down From Trapeze Bar
Child Hanging Upside Down From Trapeze Bar
Image Not Available for Child Hanging Upside Down From Trapeze Bar

Child Hanging Upside Down From Trapeze Bar

Dateabout 1915
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver emulsion on plastic
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 2 1/8 × 2 5/8in. (5.4 × 6.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 2 3/8 × 2 3/4in. (6 × 7cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionView of a child, probably a boy, hanging upside down from a trapeze bar. The bar is suspended by rope. The boy is holding the bar with both hands and has his feet hooked around the ropes on each end. There is a pile of lumber on the ground just behind him, in front of a tree. There is a one-story building to the left and another small building in the background.
Object number1988.133.577
InscribedHandwritten on envelope by project cataloger: "Child hanging upside down from / a suspended bar."NotesCataloging worksheet in object file states that the photograph was probably taken in Connecticut.
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Whitehead and Hoag Company
Patented 1892-1893