Saturday, November 26, 2016

#6 Model Builders


Posted by Buckles at 11/26/2016 06:58:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


I've mentioned that my

warehouse is the fortress

that Harold Dunn built to

create & store incredible

replicas of a railroad

major canvas topped show

some of which is displayed

at the Ringling Museum

26 November, 2016 08:25
Chic Silber said...


There were fantastic

circus models in the

main building at "CW"

& a museum now closed

in San Antonio Texas

26 November, 2016 08:29
Roger Smith said...

That museum was the Senator Harry Hertzberg Circus Collection, willed to the City of San Antonio upon the Senator's death, in 1940. I first visited there in 1957, and enjoyed a long friendship with then-Curator Leonard V. Farley. He reminded me of an old lesson: When others do not share your interests, nothing will change that. The City fathers of the day were hardly enthused to be awarded this vast treasure trove of genuine museum-quality artifacts. The Hertzberg family was, and still is, prominent in San Antonio, and their son, Harry, was a state Senator, so the gift had to be acknowledged. Leonard told me the elected leaders all smiled and said, "Thank you", then turned to each other, and said, "OK, now what do we do with this shit?" Students, researchers, and authors visited the Hertzberg religiously for over half a century. I was among them. But in the late 1990s, orders came from City Hall to crate the collection and truck it into the basement of the local Witte Museum. The grand old library building at 210 W. Market Street went dark, and the Hertzberg Circus Collection is designated to everyone as "no longer available".

26 November, 2016 17:44
Chic Silber said...


I believe that model

from CW was sold off

piece by piece

26 November, 2016 18:01

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)