Monday, August 18, 2008

Calliope 1951


calliope 1951, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

A color photo of this float was utilized to illustrate Vachel Lindsay's ode to the calliope in my 1960s high school textbook for American literature. The editors likely didn't know it wasn't a true calliope, such is the general knowledge of such things. No, I didn't clip the page for a scrapbook. I doubt that one finds many circus images in today's textbooks, which is one place where the battle needs to be waged.

Anonymous said...

I forgot to mention that the two people in the photo are Irv and Rose Romig of the Riding Romigs.
Dom