Available as an ebook or print. Known for his photographs of circus freaks and sideshow performers, turn of the century artist Frank Wendt had another line...HOOFERS and SWEETHEARTS presents Wendt's Little Women. Children who worked as hard as adults in the tainted and tawdry early days of the American show business industry. Child labor laws did not apply, and these young "earners" helped fill the seats in the Vaudeville theaters of the late 19th Century. 80 pages of illustrations from the photography collection of Jim Linderman