These are some additional pictures titled "Brocton Fair" from the Jones Collection(elephants pictured in a below post). The side show banner might help the "historians" reading the blog identify what show it was at the Brocton Fair. The only other identifier besides the elephant head pieces and the banner is the liberty horse act(incredible harness!!!!!) at the top of this thread labeled "Joyce's horses."
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Brockton Fair
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Wade G. Burck
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The center picture with the unridable mule act, it looks like the other acts animals are just hanging out waiting for their act to go on. They seem to have been trained to stay in the painted ring rather than a ring curb too - interesting
Ian
Could that liberty trainer be Charlie Morowski. If the elephants below are Ringling elephants, then maybe the horses are too.
Ian
Ian,
It looks more like a ring mat, then a painted circle. The "unrideable mule" wouldn't need much more of a barrier then the one at the front and back to keep him from falling/jumping off. Just assumption, but possibly there was a ring curb out of frame, ala today's Ringling Bros. circus which was set on the mat for the dog and pony act we see waiting in the "wings."
Wade
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