Saturday, November 12, 2005

BARNUM & BAILEY (Mother Goose)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is a cool photograph in the 1965 Bandwagon article about William P. Hall,that shows the big tusker"Major",pushing the Mother Goose pony float at the William P.Hall farm in Lancaster Missouri.

Anonymous said...

From what I remember,these Fairy tale pony floats ended up in Lancaster Missouri after a Christmas parade from Granger Iowa of the Frank Robbins show.Reportly that circus purchased these floats at Bridgeport at a auction in the 1920's.They then were sold to the Cole Bros show(along with the remaing Hall elephants) and delievered to Rochester Indiana around 1936.

Anonymous said...

Some of the B&B fairy tale floats were on the Fred Buchanan Robbins Bros. Circus. Then went from the Hall Farm to Cole Bros. Old Woman in the Shoe was acquired by Chappie Fox in the early '50s and was one of the first pieces in the CWM collection.

Anonymous said...

Correction,I meant of course the Fred Buchanan's Robbins Bros show.
The Frank Robbins show was defunct in 1915.