This Arthur Bros. wagon at the top looks awful similar to the Cole Bros. Wagon below. Was it a rehash or two different wagons?
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Arthur Bros.-Cole Bros. Circus Wagon
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Wade G. Burck
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These dens are examples of the so-called Corporation cages, fabricated by William H. "Cap" Curtis for the American Circus Corporation. They were used on Sells-Floto, John Robinson and Hagenbeck-Wallace through the 1920s and into the 1930s.
Those that went out on the 1938 HW show were stranded in CA and eventually a couple were on Arthur Bros. in 1945. A couple of them survived and ended up in Baraboo.
The Corporation cages that went to Cole after the 1940 fire in Rochester were different vehicles. Maybe one survives at the ICHF in Peru, IN.
The details on these cages were largely covered by Stuart Thayer in a Bandwagon article, supplemented in a follow-up piece that brought new photographs forward for examination. These writings can be located in the article index on the CHS website, www.circushistory.org.
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