I found a few more pictures from the collection of old circus photos I've been putting up.
What I liked about these photos is that they come across as both happy, old fashioned pictures of people having a nice time, but there is a subtext to them that I found downright spooky.
Lot's of devil's and grim reapers in the artwork and sorry kids but clowns are downright creepy.
Anyway, here's the last of them, enjoy....
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7nCJkmyE13DAOaOocF5_WgmHmgp1s6CT-qNQp2juc1CWbkcN3UKTaw2S4deD5J6TCXc85MmTARKlY95DimNXdCsYYZ_vH11KgA4G1dtsTysYwwFmKLEnnLRwCgCknmnb94AEKbWO1mIOm/s280/circus+a.jpg) |
Grim Reaper Poster Art (1931) |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGHwiYT2d60iUqkY2C92ol-vZjGg-aMaODXi_rEr8GfwTqsr-aBEv9rPQ1upmL-8tgbTWkpQCfEWEmABH_qH7tD3qGXKTpZ8NVgEAlTidSZokUDEPfYtl7Q_AkXCTAcGkaYpVID1ODKYe/s280/circus+c.jpg) |
Children preparing to be eaten by clown, 1931 |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UUcjLLJx6dHCaLy7jG22wYc6_7uTQ7Yw80LKOEHuhtYfhumXVJfN-pLa44prhnTHTFYXMrVs1dhCUx5ZmZQ9IryBwSjMJvkB08Xp7IJit3jAHxZvcQNjG1wc5K143NYFbHZ4eqvONL61/s280/circus+d.jpg) |
Circus band members on horseback (1931) |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGiMUM5dQTdwNGSSuCvwBz9OKJAuu_hkRvppXxCIXBcR0-_pNAlJ71zQbMXiyyLGcUw4ylBoE6L30TLlHVdPk5p6XNd3vq7Cr9ViiZmIyP4WYtfFSqxHf7mln_g_E6q1CMcDPOlyeiDkZi/s280/circus+b.jpg) |
I don't know, but it scares the hell out of me |
The last picture is some kind of man in a clown suit, but I swear that thing looks like a Batman villain.
Yeesh!!
Really more half a Bat-villain. Tweedledee or Tweedledum, as depicted in the forties.
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