#BurtLancaster with fellow performer on parallel bars, between 1935 and 1939.
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Theatre Project Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

WPA Circus pole act like those performed by Lancaster and Cravat.
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Aerialist Burt Lancaster and his WPA circus partner, Nick Cravat.
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Among those ‘sawdust stars’ was aerialist Burt Lancaster.
Here below, #BurtLancaster in the movie *Trapeze* (left), and in his WPA Circus days.
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Tightrope Walker. WPA Federal Theatre Project Circus in NY. 1935.
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Rope dancer, WPA Circus, 1935, Fed Theatre Project Circus in New York, NY -- from the New Deal Network
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WPA Federal Theater Project in NY, Circus. Works Progress Administration. Federal Theatre Project. 1935.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum.
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Circus. Works Progress Administration, Federal Theatre Project in New York. 1935. #GreatDepression #TheNewDeal #WPA #FederalTheatreProject #WPAcircus

Children at WPA festival in the Sheep Meadow, Central Park, May 2, 1936.
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Purchasing tickets to the Federal Theatre Project’s Circus in New York City
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