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Listen: The Latin ProgramYoung performer from Cristiani Brothers Circus shown standing on the back of a horse during rehearsal for NBC-TV in Sarasota, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 14
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Trained animals
Community culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Entertainment
Attractions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Amusements
Circus--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Clothing and dress
Costume
Horsemen and horsewomen
Horsemanship
Trick riding
Working animals
Working horses
Entertainers--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Circus workers
Circus performers
Circus animals
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Accompanying note: "Rolleis".
Rehearsals were for "Roll out the Sky," the story of the Cristiani Brothers Circus to be aired on "NBC Kaleidoscope" Sunday May 3.
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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