From Richard Flint

Buckles,Following up on your photos of the 1931 Wheeler & Sautelle lot, here'sa group shot of the showfolks taken at Cranford, New Jersey, on July30, 1931. Can anyone identify these old-timers?Owner Al F. Wheeler is shown in the middle with the dark suit andlight hat with a woman's hands resting on his shoulders. He first hada wagon show but reached his peak in 1916 with the short-lived WheelerBros. 30-car rail show financed by the publisher of the Baltimore Sunnewspaper. Wheeler also managed the Silvan-Drew show in 1928-29 aswell as George Engesser's Schell Bros. Circus in 1934. Charles Hunthad Wheeler's sideshow on his lot for the seasons of 1927 and again in1935-36 and regarded him as a masterful sideshow operator. Wheeler'slast season was with the 1936 Hunt show (then titled Eddy Bros.) afterwhich he made his former Oxford, Pennsylvania, winterquarters—an oldfairground--into a residential real estate development.I am sure many people will recognize this group format as the work ofEdward Kelty. His Century Flashlight studio produced 12x20 inchprints, larger then the bed of my scanner, and so I've used by digitalcamera to make a copy. Consequently, if enlarged by viewers, it won'thave quite the remarkable sharpness of detail seen in the original.Kelty used a mammoth camera to make a negative 12x20 inches from whichhe then made contact prints to sell to fans and show people alike. Dick Flint Baltimore