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Listen: The Blues ProgramRingling Circus fat lady, Alice from Dallas, reading a magazine on the circus train in Sarasota, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 14
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Entertainment
Reading
Service industries--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Tourism--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Attractions--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Amusements--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Circus--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Entertainers--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Circus workers
Overweight women
Circus performers
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Slide is a copy of an original print.
In early years the Fat Lady's salary was determined by her weight. She had to weigh in every payday and received fifty cents per pound. Note the box of Milk-bone dog biscuits.
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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