Description

Photograph of a circus parade on a May afternoon in Victorian era Baltimore, Maryland. A crowd of spectators, including many Caucasian and African American children, watch from the street or from covered coaches (the one on the left is from the Adams Express Company) as a circus performer in a fez cap and long military-type uniform and camels dressed in fringed blankets parade by. Next to them is a man in Western style clothes, riding a horse. A produce wagon with J. A. Wickham Green Grocers painted on the side is stopped to the right by the park, its driver watching the festivities. (J. Arthur Wickham had a grocery store at number 413 North Calvert Street around 1894.) The route for this parade is most likely across East Monument Street to North and Greenmount Avenues. (Photograph provided courtesy of W. Bryant Tyrrell.)

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Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Maryland