Thursday, September 20, 2007

Cole Bros. Circus 1930's #5


Scan000010200, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

5 and 6 depict one of the 1883 Barnum & London tableau cages. A history is in Conover's Fielding Bandchariots and Thayer wrote about them in Bandwagon. This one burned in 1940.

Anonymous said...

By the time I came along the Cole show had stopped parading (except Delavan in 1948 for the Wis. centenial). But I do remember them taking the America calliope downtown for a free concert every day, pulled by horses.