Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Barnum & Bailey in Europe


Scan10367, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

John O'Brien's 40 horse Grand Carousel at the Olympia in London, England 1899.

1 comments:

Fred Neill said...

Where are the other 30 horses?! By the 1897-99 visit here to UK O'Brien had built the act up to 70 horses. What varied slightly here was the horse he rode - though usually white, newspaper reviews mention other colours. Needless to say they were impressed by the act.