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This photo is in pretty bad shape the top is all ripped off and
it's water stained. It's glued onto something like wafer board but
all the men are identified on the back. I did an internet search
on the "COULTER AND CLARKS FAMOUS DOG AND PONY SHOWS" banner that
is in the window. The circus history web site said it was in
business from around 1904-1910. Not sure of the year the photo was
taken but looking at the sign and the outfits and them carrying
flags and I would guess between Memorial Day and June 5. To me the
ribbons they are wearing looks like the IOOF ribbon I have for
another relative I found.
On the back written is
TOP ROW LEFT TO RIGHT
Mr. Jemson or Jenson, Jim Styles, Mr. Harden, Billie Clawson, Mr.
Holmes, Daddy Trodgen, Joe Wilson, Shady Reynolds
SITTING DOWN LEFT TO RIGHT
Rush Corbett, Marion Rankin, Squire Timmons, Port Phillips, Luke
Halfhill, ?, Zach Armstrong
Submitters note: *Zach was my great great grandfather.
Civil War Reconstruction veteran
County Coordinator note: Billie Clawson was William G.
Clawson (1841-1928)