Woman with Macaw at the Cristiani Bros. Circus, 1950s

Every traveling circus of the 1950s kept a macaw or two chained to a perch near the midway, on the theory that a bird in scarlet plumage would coax a dollar out of anyone who had already spent their last one on tickets. The woman in the foreground has been posed beside it for a snapshot, the kind of souvenir that required no admission fee and cost the circus nothing but the bird's patience.