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Lillian Leitzel, aerialist 1892-1931
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Lillian Leitzel with the Ringling Bros. show, ca 1916.
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Lillian Leitzel on the Ringling Bros. show, ca 1918.
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Lillian Leitzel with attendent wrapping wrist, ca 1916.
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Lillian Leitzel performing the plange under the big top, undated.
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Lillian Leitzel in costume standing next to a tent, ca 1926.
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L to R May Wirth, Lillian Leitzel, and Elizabeth Hanneford, 1919 the first year of the combined shows, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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Mabel Clemens, Miss Leitzel’s maid with the performer’s Boston Bull Terriers, Boots, Jerry & pup, ca 1923.
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Lillian Leitzel in costume standing near a tent in the backyard, 1923.
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Lillian Leitzel in costume standing near a tent in the backyard, 1923.
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Lillian Leitzel with her husband Cliff Ingalls, on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, 1923.
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Lillian Leitzel with her husband Cliff Ingalls, on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, ca 1923.
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Lillian Leitzel’s two Boston Bull Terrier mascots, 1923. Photographer Frank M. Detre traveling with Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey.
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Lillian Leitzel ascending a rope to the Roman rings. Chicago skyscrapers line the background, 1923. Photographer Frank M. Detre traveling with Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey.
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Lillian Leitzel in her non-tent, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel performing the half plange under the big top before a full house. Below her is a person sitting on a suspended bar for added weight. The spotter standing inside the ring may her butler Willy Moser, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel in her non-tent, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel in her non-tent, ca 1924.
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Billboard featuring Lillian Leitzel on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, ca 1924.
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Billboard featuring Lillian Leitzel and May Wirth on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel resting, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel practicing her golf swing in the back yard, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel practicing her golf game as she swings a wood in the grass in the backyard. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel practicing her golf swing in the back yard, ca 1924.
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Lillian Leitzel at her non tent enjoying something to eat, 1926.
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Lillian Leitzel looks to the side as she poses for a photograph. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1926.
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Lillian Leitzel performing on a single Roman ring, ca 1929.
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Lillian Leitzel performing on the Roman rings, undated.
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Lillian Leitzel joined by three clowns. Felix Adler is on the left, ca 1929. Photographer H. A. Atwell, Chicago, Illinois.
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Lillian Leitzel performing the plange in an open air arena, undated.
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Lillian Leitzel with her uncle the clown Blutch Landolf, ca 1930.
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Profile of Lillian Leitzel, ca 1930.
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Lillian Leitzel performing gymnastics while ascending a rope. Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Chicago, Illinois, 1930.
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Lillian Leitzel with two unidentified men, undated.
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L to R unidentified man, Lillian Leitzel, unidentified man, unidentified man, Fred Bradna, and Dexter Fellows, ca 1925.
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Lillian Leitzel with Dexter Fellows and an unidentified man, ca 1925.
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Lillian Leitzel being treated by Dr. William Shields, photograph by Frederick W. Glasier, undated.
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Lillian Leitzel receiving medical care from a chimpanzee, photograph by Frederick W. Glasier, undated.
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Lillian Leitzel, taken from Elwell scrapbook, 1930
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Lillian Leitzel standing at the entrance to her non tent, Stratford, CT, 1930.
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Lillian Leitzel in the back yard with a child, undated.
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Tina Burroughs stands beside the flower cushion for Lillian Leitzel’s grave. 1931.