• Title
  Photograph of Frederick Raymond, the 'Gaol-Breaker' and 'Handcuff King' escapologist
• Call number
  SPF/3796
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1911
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9681760
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver - 15 x 11 cm
  
• Collection history
  Photograph may have been used as a promotional image for the Wirth's Circus
• Scope and Content
  1 gelatin silver photographic print mounted on card showing a posed studio portrait of Raymond (Frederick Raymond, stage name Raymond Franz Wirth), renowned gaol-breaker, known as the Handcuff King, who was an escapologist and performer with Wirth's Circus from around 1907. This photograph seems to have been taken whilst the troupe were established at Prince Alfred Park in Surry Hills, in 1911
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Subject
  Circus performers--Australia.
  Men--Photographs.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21165612

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