Buckles Blog: 07/01/2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

1941 Ringling Performance #12 (From Eric Beheim)

1941 Ringling Performance #14

This is one of the photos taken in 1942 that TRU-VUE used to replace a 1941 photo.

"Ms Carty is quite a fan of the Power family and their elephants. She has sent me considerable material the past few years particularly regarding their long say in England with Bertram Mills.
The elephants names were "Lena", "Jennie", "Roxie" and "Julia" and one would assume the latter was named after Ms Power.
This act originated with the Walter L. Main Circus."
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Saturday, July 30, 2011

1941 Ringling Performance #7 (From Eric Beheim)

1941 Ringling Performance #8

1941 Ringling Performance #9

1941 Ringling Performance #10

1941 Ringling Performance #11

(TO BE CONTINUED)

Great Wallace (From Buckles)

P.D. "Jumbo" BROWN
1903-06 Great Wallace Shows

Hagenbeck-Wallace #1

REUBEN CASTANG
1904 St. Louis World's Fair (Hagenbeck Animals)
1905-06 Carl Hagenbeck Show
1907 Hagenbeck-Wallace

1909 Dode Fisk Show

1907 H-W Program: Ring 1- Reuben Castang...Ring 2- Charles Judge (Riding Tiger)... Ring 3-.Percy Phillips.

Hagenbeck-Wallace #2

Hagenbeck-Wallace #3

(Reverse side of picture above)

Hagenbeck-Wallace #4

Joe Robinson (at left)

JOSEPH ROBINSON
1915 Hagenbeck-Wallace
1916 Hagenbeck-Wallace (Supt. last half of season)

1922-23 Hagenbeck-Wallace (Bert Noyes Asst.)

Hagenbeck-Wallace #5

Friday, July 29, 2011

1941 Ringling Performance #1 (From Eric Beheim)

Continuing our 70th Anniversary celebration of Ringling’s 1941 season, here is the series of TRU-VUE photos showing the performance. This first shot taken on the midway shows the sideshow front designed by Norman Bel Geddes and which proved to be as heavy and cumbersome as it looks. (Note all the men who wore coats, ties and hats to go to the circus back then .)