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Listen: The Blues ProgramPortrait of Ringling Circus employee John Murray Anderson.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 1
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Circus workers--Portraits
Entertainers--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Portraits
Men--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Portraits
Circus--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Directors (Performing arts)
Portraits--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Circus spectacles
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Accompanying note: "Director of Ringling Circus spectacle for circus programming".
Biographical Note
John Murray Anderson (September 20, 1886 - January 30, 1954) was a theatre director and producer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, and lighting designer. He worked for Ringling Brothers Circus from 1942-1951 and directed circus sequences for the film The Greatest Show on Earth.
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
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