Buckles Blog: Peru Aftermath #2

Friday, August 24, 2007

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Anonymous said...: Ground Zero : Peru; 25 August, 2007 08:50
Anonymous said...: Every circus winter quarters had a graveyard, whether it was Philadelphia, Baraboo, Bridgeport, Sarasota, Hugo or Peru. Items that were generally considered "use" objects" had not yet reached "artifact" status, with the exception of the steam calliope that went to the Henry Fored Museum about 1930. That was followed by Jess Adkins donating a bunch of Corporation wagon carvings and sides to the Miami County Museum in Peru about 1935. The next big transfer came with the move of wagons from the RBBB quarters to the Ringling Museum in the late 1940s.; 28 August, 2007 17:13
Anonymous said...: This finely crafted cage wagon was one of the many elegantly painted vehicles that housed the menagerie animals of the Sells-Floto Circus, "The Circus Beautiful." Many on the show were a riotous rainbow of color. Before the vehicle was completely destroyed, the two central carved figures were salvaged and donated to the Miami County Museum in Peru. You can see the pair on pages 72-73 of C. P. Fox's book "Circus Parades," where they are incorrectly identified as being from a Ben Wallace wagon.; 28 August, 2007 17:37

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