"Long Island City, New York. That is the job of the Diorama Corporation of Long Island City and its head, Edward Heckler Burdick, industrial exhibit engineer, take this breath-taking photo of a trapeze artist apparently plunging to the floor of the circus tent as a result of a broken trapeze. Mr. Burdick and his artists build this model set of a circus in a bathub. Then the picture of the trapeze performer was taken and superimposed against the bakcground of floor and net and trapeze. The net, by the way, is a piece of surgical gauze," ca. 1940. Photograph. Vintage silver print, stamps and label with typed caption on back. Handling marks. Image: 24 x 19 cm; sheet: 25.5 x 20 cm
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