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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramView showing members of the Flying Wallendas daredevil circus act in Sarasota, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 5
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Daredevils
Acrobats
Circus performers
Circus workers
Entertainers--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Tightrope walking
Acrobatics
Circus--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Amusements--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Entertainment
Community culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Aerialists
Physical Description
General Note
L-R: Richard Guzman (Carla's husband), Raymond Chitty, Karl Wallenda and Carla Wallenda.
The Great Wallendas were noted throughout Europe for their four-man pyramid and cycling on the high wire. The act moved to the United States in 1928 and began an association with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus.
Biographical Note
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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