Saturday, June 21, 2008

Turn of the century 4-Paw & Sells #1 (From Buckles)


Scan10308, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Another picture of "Sid" in 1899 as seen in Joplin, Missouri twelve years after the Bob Kitto 1887 Sells Bros. pictures.

Posted by Buckles at 6/21/2008 06:35:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wasn’t Sid executed in Madison Square Garden around 1901 or 1902?

This was a time when Bailey wanted to get out of the fully adult Asian male business. He must have been concerned that continuing to carry them posed too great a danger. So, he had two of them strangled while in England, had the finest looking one of all, Fritz, killed in France, ordered Mandarin strangled on the ship that brought the show back from France and in the meantime ordered Sid killed. We must figure that was a direct order from Bailey because he was a notorious micromanager.

21 June, 2008 12:39

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