Miss Lala, the Black Aerialist of Gilded Age Paris
Anna Albertine Olga Brown was born in 1858, just one year before Jules Leotard invented the flying trapeze. Brown's parents must have been circus people, as she started performing at age nine. Under the name Miss Lala (o...
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