Monday, December 21, 2009

From Peter Rosa #8

Posted by Buckles at 12/21/2009 05:55:00 AM

2 comments:

Buckles said...

Imagine directing traffic, much of it horse drawn, into and out of Farmer Brown's pasture from this country lane.

21 December, 2009 07:02
Anonymous said...

Steve Albasing took this and many other Ringling photos in the latter 1910s, providing about the best document of the circus in those years. He worked in the wardrobe department at one time, penned a memoir that was published in Bandwagon long ago. In the 1950s he did the inked legends on negatives that were then printed and sold as postcards, thus the writing on this and other of his circus prints. He was discovered in Milwaukee by C. P. Fox, who sold several sets of Albasing photos, identified with Albasing's "101 Heck" nickname. A spread of his photos was printed in Bandwagon an issue or two ago. There are other photos of RB in Red Wing, along with at least one of Barnum & Bailey in the late 1910s.

21 December, 2009 09:33

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