[Rarebooks] FS: The Great Latour Leap for Life

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new catalog-
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The Great Latour Leap for Life Victorian Trade Card.

“To the Patrons of the Great London Show: The Beautiful Young Lady whose 
portrait adorns the front of this page will be presented in an Act 
original with herself, requiring more skill than ever before displayed 
by mortal, known as the “LATOUR LEAP FOR LIFE.” She ascends a platform 
placed in the apex of the pavilion and at a signal and with a courage 
possessed by no man, makes a perilous dive downward SIXTY-THREE FEET, 
During her flight performing a triple somersault in mid-air, before 
gracefully alighting in the netting upon an elastic rubber platform, 
which sends her rebounding in the air a distance of twenty feet. M’LLE 
LATOUR is the only person living, man or woman, who attempts this 
marvelous performance. It is the successful accomplishment of an Act 
which is original with herself alone, and to the perfection of which she 
has industriously devoted, in persevering practice, half her life”.

3.25”x5.25”. Minor soil, light wear. [42674] $85


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