Real photo postcard publicity portrait of a female stage performer Frances O'Connor standing full length wearing a long dress and holding flowers. O'Connor billed as "The Armless Wonder" and the living Venus de Milo made her living appearing in circus sideshows [2] She also did knitting and sewing with her feet as a hobby. She worked firstly with AI G Circus and then from the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey travelling circuses

The portrait is made before vertical stage drapery and appears to be a theatrical promotional photograph.



Handwritten inscriptions read: Frances O’Connor.