Here are a couple 8 x 10 prints that were in my dad's stuff. I offered them on eBay this week. They were called Lithcolor prints and were made by the Topham Printing company in Saginaw, Michigan.
This is an old Movie card from 1948 featuring Jack Hoxie. It was in all my dad's stuff I brought home. It is 11" x 14".
These great castings are part of the Tinplate Shop models. I will be offering them for sale through my circus store at http://www.thecircusworld.com/circus-model-parts. This Two Hemispheres bandwagon includes both sides and both ends as do all the other wagons. They are amazingly detailed. What a Model builders dream!
I have the Sea Shell Tab available in O Scale at my circus store at http://www.thecircusworld.com/circus-model-parts
I have the Gollmar Bros. Mirror Tab in O Scale at my circus Store at http://www.thecircusworld.com/circus-model-parts
Mr. Charlie Daniels and company was the live entertainment on Sunday at the SC State Fair. At 73 years of age, he didn't slow down. For an hour and a half, he showed just how talented a musician he really is.
I got this swinging couple's wishes yesterday to send on to you. "TARZAN WANT CAKE!"
Despite our misunderstandings of their facial expressions, they tell me this is a HAPPY face just for you!
The Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas opens their Circus Exhibit - "Circus Folk" on October 24th. You can visit the Witte Museum website at http://www.wittemuseum.org/ Many of you may remember the old Hertzberg Museum. The Witte Museum is now in charge of the Hertzberg collection and working hard at getting it all back on display again.
The Campbell Bros. Circus went broke in 1912. Wm. P. Hall came to Fairbury, NE. to look it over but passed on the show. Some of the Campbell owners re-organized and bought the show back then sold half of it to Rice Bros. Circus and took the rest back out as Cole Bros. World Toured Circus in 1913.
Wm.P. Hall called Lancaster, MO. home. Many a circus played this town over the years just to show their circus to Mr. Hall or because they wintered or formed at his farm and Lancaster became their opening day. This particular ad was placed in the Lancaster Excelsior on July 20, 1906. This is just the upper section of what was a third of a page ad.
This is the top third of this ad taken out in the Schuyler County Republican on August 19, 1910.
In 1905, Wm. P. Hall decided to try his hand at this Circus stuff and took out his own show. This is a third page ad for the opening day from the Schuyler County Republican. ( Lancaster, MO.)
This 3/4 of the ad placed in the Lancaster, MO. newspaper the Schuler County Republican on April 9, 1915. The Cole Show would be in Lancaster, MO> 7 days before Barton & Bailey opened in Lancaster,
This is the op 1/2 of the huge ad placed in the Lancaster, MO> newspaper, the Schuyler County Republican on July 20, 1906.
October 20 - 25, 2009 Are you ready for a week of fun?
This is my Dad back in 1970. He found this banner and three to go with them in a junk store down around Akron. We have four or five pieces of paper from the Malloy show to go with it, a set of roman rings, a few cables and a swivel. How big was the show? I don't know but it's NOT listed in the Bob Parkinson book, "Directory of American Circuses."
Hmmm....... Those plaid pants kinda, sorta, look ......like, Naawwww can't be! Might be! What was I thinkin'?
This was the group photo from the Mills Bros. Ring gathering at our house in 1970. How could 39 years have slipped by already?
This is one of the more plentiful letterheads from Fred Buchanan's shows. Buchanan managed to go under and come back many times. Finally in 1932, he went under again owing Wm.P. Hall. While court papers were taken out trying to collect on the mortgage, Wm. P. Hall had a sheriff's sale for the Buchanan show and Hall bought it all for nothing, thus legally owning it all again and still having Buchanan responsible for the note. Fred Buchanan was looked for over a very long time but was never found.
I found this in the Lancaster (MO.) Excelsior on September 18, 1924. It should enlarge if you double click it. Unfortunately, the microfilm isn't the greatest.
The Universoul Circus has just released this new DVD. Go to http://www.universoulcircus.com/ to order it. Better yet, go see the Universoul Circus. It is fantastic!
Visit a legendary circus under canvas. Go see the Carson & Barnes Circus near you.
