Wednesday, February 25, 2009

"Greatest of American Shows" #2


Scan11390, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

These post card size shots of the Gollmar parade are well circulated and you can tell from the numbers that a lot were taken on this occasion of the entire show.
I'm sure someone can easily come up with a date and location.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's Shawano, Wisconsin, 17th of something, in the 1910s. It's pronounced Shaw-No, as though the second "a" wasn't there.

Anonymous said...

Gollmar Bros. Circus Walter, Fred, Charles, Ben and Jake Gollmar, propriertors 1891-1896.

From 1896-1916 the same brothers except Jake were proprietors.

Anonymous said...

Probably not the 17th as the date sheets seen are with 101 Ranch paper for August 17. Only a very slight chance they day and dated.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Anonymous said...

A nice stand of paper for the 101 on the third building down. You can click on the photo to enlarge the photo.
P.J.Holmes

Anonymous said...

According to my photo files the date is Monday July 31, 1911 at Shawano, WI.
Flint