thecircusblog | March 12, 2012
When I received these photos from Donna Wally Wilbur it put me to thinking that this man could be related to Glen”Bones”Hartzell, who was a well known circus clown and had worked for all the major circuses in the early 1900’s, including Ringling Bros. In order to get a better handle on this I emailed […]
thecircusblog | March 12, 2012
Sorry for the condition of the print in this news ad. This is the way it was sent. My photo shop cleared up most of it. Maybe Donna Wally Wilbur can email a better scan.
thecircusblog | March 12, 2012
George Hartzell is on the passenger side of the car. The other clown members names are unknown to me. Photo was taken on the Ringling show in the late 1920’s or early 30’s….. actual year unknown to me.
thecircusblog | March 12, 2012
I have no date on this photo,nor the names of these clowns. NEED YOUR HELP.
thecircusblog | February 18, 2012
thecircusblog | January 27, 2012
These teams of horses are waiting along a railroad siding where the circus train flatbeds are loaded with wagons. Each car or flat may have up to four wagons on it. Long wagon wheel rails are mounted at the back of the flat bed and the wagon is then rolled down the two rails to […]
thecircusblog | January 27, 2012
When this photo was sent to me by Val Streit, she accidentally cropped her grandfather’s name which was Casper Whitey Jensen. I believe he is on top of one of the Ringling elephants in this picture.
thecircusblog | January 10, 2012
Eugene “Arkie” Scott stands in the center ring with the Ringling Bros Barnum Bailey elephants. “The Greatest Show on Earth” was the movie that Cecil B. Demille’s produced in 1952. Arkie was the superintendent of the elephants at the time of the making of this movie.
thecircusblog | December 29, 2011
