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(RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY)
An album entitled
Season 1923, NewYork to Frisco
.
Containing 57 photographs of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s traveling circus.With
views of circus members setting up tents, selling tickets, eating at the “cook house” and getting
ready for their performances, as well as other scenes of daily life including children being home-
schooled and a group of performers crowded round to catch the solar eclipse.Also shown are scenes
of the circus in action at Madison Square Garden, Bellevue Hospital, and numerous other locations,
in addition to 2 maps displaying the route across America for the 1922 and 1923 seasons. Silver
prints, 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), with 12 slightly smaller; mounted recto/verso to black paper,
with captions, in white ink, on mount recto. Small oblong 4to, cloth cover, disbound. 1923
[2,000/3,000]
The album was originally owned and compiled byWilbur Charnley, who was employed by Barnum
and Bailey Circus and stayed on with the circus after the merger with Ringling Bros. He was
apparently a rigging supervisor.
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EDWARD J. KELTY (1888-1967)
Panorama of Sells Floto Circus: Zack Terrell, Manager & Fred Ledgett, Equestrian Director.
Silver print,
11x19
1
/
4
inches (27.9x48.9 cm.), with a Century credit, title, and date in the negative. 1931
[2,000/3,000]
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(CIRCUS)
Album entitled
Circus.
With 60 remarkable photographs depicting a range of acts and performers, apparently compiled by
Bert Cole.With several signed portraits, and scenes of clowns at play, costumed cowboys (Tom Mix,
Fred Leggett,Tim McCoy, and a copy print of Annie Oakley), suited small people, graceful elephants,
engaging dogs and goats, an adorable piglet and her trainer, decorative circus wagons, and a couple
of family photographs. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 3x5 to 12x10 inches (7.6x12.7 to 30.5x25.4
cm.), and the reverse; including a quarter-plate tintype of a young drummer that is inscribed Bert
Cole (1885). Tall folio, leatherette with a twin bolt binding, with a hand-painted image of an
elephant on the front cover. 1885-1939
[3,000/4,500]
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