Friday, October 08, 2010

Barnum Show #5


Scan13158, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

My dad wrote on the back:

Barnum & Bailey- Olympia, London Eng. 1899
John O'Brien's 40 Horse Grand Carousel.

Posted by Buckles at 10/08/2010 06:16:00 AM

1 comments:

Unknown said...

You don't do him enough credit - it was 70 horses. What seems to have varied sometimes was the horse he was on - often "Mufti" but others were used. Earlier Route books show the number building over a couple of years from 50 or so.
It was with the show right through Britain 1897-99 inclusive though he didn't stay through Europe4 (if my memory serves me right).

Fred Neill

12 October, 2010 05:57

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