Wednesday, May 14, 2008

From Bill Strong


CAMEL HITCH, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 5/14/2008 06:06:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anyone have a date for this photo? Those were the days,They never knew what the word blacktop meant. It may have not been in anyone's vocabulary, in that day and age.

14 May, 2008 19:31
Anonymous said...

This is the famous Ringling 16-camel hitch pulling the 1903-built Egypt float. The date is no earlier than 1903, when the wagon was built, and no later than 1910, the wagon rebuilt for 1911. One would need to see the back of the postcard to establish a closer date, or a card with a postmark.

Stuart Thayer wrote an article about the wagon in Bandwagon, Sept-Oct 1988, page 42. No one has yet written about the camel hitch.

The setting is Baraboo in the spring time, along the north bank of the Baraboo River. T. J. Howell and family live just beyond the farm on the left side.

15 May, 2008 08:16

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