Buckles Blog: Floats and Tableaux #10

Sunday, May 01, 2011

Randy said...: WOW, Now thats a Great loking Tableaux .....; 01 May, 2011 10:18
Dick Flint said...: And, Randy, that wooden elephant isn't even fully telescoped up from inside the body of the wagon!
See you soon in Hershey!
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 02 May, 2011 01:42
Richard Reynolds said...: Note the guy atop the wagon with the long pole for pushing up low hanging electric wires. The blossoming of the age of electricity put an end to those fully extended tall telescoping tableaus.; 02 May, 2011 11:02
Anonymous said...: This telescoping tableau was toured around England in 1870 by Howes & Cushing and then came to the US for the magnificent 1871 Howes Great London parade. Bailey bought the show later and in 1881 it went into the Barnum & London operation. It's shown here at South Bend, Indiana on 21 July 1888. The original glass plate negatives for this and other views were discovered and shared originally by Otto Scheiman.

=The top was taken off and the vehicle converted into a bandwagon. Bailey transfered it over to Forepaugh-Sells in the late 1890s, where it remained until the early 1900s. It was sold off and used on the 1913 Arlington & Beckman Wild West, perhaps being shipped to South America.; 02 May, 2011 14:03

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