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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Campbell Bros.
Unloading in Horton, Kansas in 1908 - from the Jim McRoberts collection
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Dick Flint
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Jules A. Bourquin (1877-1964) was a Swiss-born optometrist and amateur photographer who, with his family, ran a jewelry and camera store in Horton, Kansas, a big railroad center for shops of the Rock Island line. Just before his death, CFA historian Homer DeGolyer's brother purchased some of the collection (for its railroad images) with the other portion remaining in Kansas before each ended up in separate university collections. Bourquin’s circus images also include Sells-Floto (1918) and Yankee Robinson (1919). Jim McRoberts had a reputation for copying and selling lots of prints taken by others without crediting them. Dick Flint Baltimore
I performed from 1973 to 1995 with a couple years off in between. I did an aerial cradle act for three years, low wire as a clown, trained llamas, ponies, then lions and tigers for 15 years. I am now a firefighter, a member of the Circus Historical Society and an author of several circus and carnival related subjects.
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Jules A. Bourquin (1877-1964) was a Swiss-born optometrist and amateur photographer who, with his family, ran a jewelry and camera store in Horton, Kansas, a big railroad center for shops of the Rock Island line. Just before his death, CFA historian Homer DeGolyer's brother purchased some of the collection (for its railroad images) with the other portion remaining in Kansas before each ended up in separate university collections. Bourquin’s circus images also include Sells-Floto (1918) and Yankee Robinson (1919). Jim McRoberts had a reputation for copying and selling lots of prints taken by others without crediting them.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
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