Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Circus Parade--1910

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The pith helmets declare this to be a Ringling-owned show, but the closest any of their three troupes came to Waukesha in 1910 was Ringling itself on June 20, in Milwaukee. Maybe one the "bull experts" will recognize the African on the left.

Bob Cline said...

1910 only had a handful of shows on the road with more than six elephants as seen in this photo. The only show that carried an African elephant in 1910 was the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus which had two of them, JUMB and KONGO.

Therefore we have two ways of looking at this. Either this is indeed Hagenbeck-Wallace and they are wearing the Pith helmets or this isn't 1910.
Bob

Anonymous said...

It's not HW, they presented their bulls in a different manner. The photographer resided in Waukesha, he could have taken the train into Milwaukee for a date. So, perhaps it's a different year. When did Fannie die? 1908? The bull men look the same as in the 1913 photo taken at Lewiston, ME [BWSO68, p6]

Bob Cline said...

Fannie died in the Baraboo quarters in November of 1908.

Ringling was using the Russian Cosack type wardrobe for their parade in 1910 not pith helmets. Just thought I would throw that in there.
Bob