Friday, September 14, 2012

To Larry Kellogg #1



Were either of these pictures included in your Paul Wenzel collection?

Posted by Buckles at 9/14/2012 05:49:00 AM

1 comments:

Dick Flint said...

This is a photograph by Frederick Glasier, best known for his wonderful 8x10 glass plate photographs of the Forepaugh-Sells and Barnum shows. He did shoot some images into the early 1920s including a group of the 1923 Sparks show (glass plate but 5x7 size) including this clown and skeleton. The bulk of his work has been at the Ringling Museum since around 1960-62 but the late Bob Good, Sr., obtained some from the Glasier estate about 1950 and they are now at Circus World Museum.
Is this Paul Wenzel? He was on the show that year and led the clown band. Incidentally, another clown on the show was Pete Mardo who also took many wonderful photographs while he was on Sparks and Ringling as well as a great group of early Clyde Beatty in the big cage about 1928. We owe these gentlemen and others thanks for the great record they left for us.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

14 September, 2012 11:34

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