Monday, November 09, 2009

Barnum & Bailey #5


Scan12386, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 11/09/2009 05:54:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about a little discussion of the manner in which this elephant hitch is attached to the wagon? How frequently were poles used in this manner?

09 November, 2009 08:50
J Goodall said...

Looks to me like a couple of the lady riders are men. What say?

09 November, 2009 11:37
Richard said...

Does anyone know the name of this parade float?

It was on B&B from about 1903 though at least 1917. I have a Ralph Miller photo of it with B&B in Memphis, accurately dated by Miller as 1917. [He was very careful in dating his pictures.]

I have seen it referred to as Siam or Elephant Tusk, though that may have been a name assigned by the wagonphiles long after the fact.

But how did B&B refer to it?

09 November, 2009 14:28
Richard Reynolds said...

Does anyone know the name of this parade float.

It was on B&B from about 1903 until at least 1917. I have a Ralph Miller photo of it in Memphis, accurately dated as 1917. Miller was very careful in dating the photos he took.

I have seen it identified as Siam or Elephant Tusk, but those are likely names invented by the wagonphiles, long after the fact.

What did B&B call it?

09 November, 2009 14:33
Anonymous said...

This is the queen's float. It was rebuilt later, served as a spec float on RBBB in the 1920s. There's a photo of it going in the back door, with a plain rectangular box body, painted sides, in an older juvenile book with large type, gray-ish soft cover. The photo was possibly taken in Rockford, IL.

The formally printed 1903 B&B Order of Parade gives it this profound name: "Queen." Maybe something else was printed in the courier, "The Realm"?

09 November, 2009 18:05

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