Wednesday, August 19, 2009

From Buckles #2


Scan12027, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus Concert Band

Posted by Buckles at 8/19/2009 05:45:00 AM

4 comments:

Buckles said...

It would appear that 100 years ago there were more people on the bandstand than Ken & Nicole have in the performance.

19 August, 2009 07:14
Anonymous said...

The tableau behind the band is the only wagon that has been traced to the Montgomery Queen outfit. It went to Sells, circa 1878, and then went into Forepaugh-Sells and ended up at Bridgeport in late 1907, where it was eventually bought by Frank A. Robbins. This view was taken on Forepaugh-Sells, perhaps in 1906.

This image comes from a set of at least 90 views panorama-like once sold by P. M. McClintock. The "P" is for Plumber; no, not a tradesman, but a real name. The negatives later passed through the hands of Fred Pfening Jr. to the late Albert Conover.

The visual documentation in them generally aligns with 1906, but one view includes a railroad station in Bryan, possibly Texas, which was late in the 1905 route. They document the circus in the time of the Bailey/Bailey Estate-Ringling ownership of the show, which would close after the 1907 route was fulfilled.

In cropped form, many of these images have been utilized in a variety of publications, their real identity concealed.

19 August, 2009 08:39
Anonymous said...

Is this a racially integrated band, perhaps a combination of the big top band and the sideshow band?
Lane Talburt

19 August, 2009 10:58
Anonymous said...

Lane,
Blow up this picture and I think that you will find that this is not an integrated band.
Bob Kitto

20 August, 2009 19:12

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