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Vintage Carousel Photos

Collecting vintage, vernacular photos has been made easy, thanks to Ebay. There are photos of every topic under the sun and then some. There are around 2,500,000 on a daily average. In and among them are wonderful old photos of carousels, carousel scenes, studio portraits, and perhaps my favorite - pictures from a different perspective - unintentionally abstract, which makes the pictures more interesting.

By Location - The photos are in order by State, City, Location and dated, where known.

Unknown Location – The photos are In Random Order. The newest photos are at the end.

A Different Perspective – No order

All pictures from the B. Williams collection.

California


Catalina Island, Herschell metal kiddie carousel, 1939 (Carl Wollner photo)	Newport Beach, Balboa Beach, The Fun Zone, Stein & Goldstein, no date
San Diego, Exposition 1913, later to Playland, San Francisco (Fred Freid Archives, BW collection)	San Francisco World’s Fair, 1939, Spillman, to Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (Carl Wollner photo)
San Luis Obispo, Herschell-Spillman track carousel, no date	San Luis Obispo, Herschell-Spillman track carousel, no date

Catalina Island, Herschell metal kiddie carousel, 1939 (Carl Wollner photo)

Newport Beach, Balboa Beach, The Fun Zone, Stein & Goldstein, no date

San Diego, Exposition 1913, later to Playland, San Francisco (Fred Freid Archives, BW collection)

San Francisco World’s Fair, 1939, Spillman, to Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (Carl Wollner photo)

San Luis Obispo, Herschell-Spillman track carousel, no date

Colorado

Steamboat Springs, Dare, carnival (?), no date

Connecticut

New London, Looff, no date

Savin Rock, Connecticut, Beach Street location, with PTC 21 inside, no date

Idaho

Lawton, Parker 4 row, traveling carnival, no date

Illinois

Homer, “At the street fair”, Parker, no date

Missouri

Tipton, Traveling carnival, 1910 – Unknown

Nebraska

Hastings, “Parker carnival No. 4, Oct 11-17, 1908”

New Jersey

Asbury Park, Mangels kiddie carousel and the Palace Carousel building, no date

Seaside Heights, Dentzel carousel, E. Joy Morris horse, no date

Seaside Heights, Freeman’s Carrousel, Dentzel, 1954

Palisades, Dentzel, set up at a carnival, no date

New York

Brooklyn, Coney Island, 1950, Illions Supreme on Surf Avenue

New York City Transportation Station, Stein & Goldstein, no date (now at Central Park, NY)

Ohio

Cleveland, Euclid Beach, 1910, Philadelphia Toboggan Company #19, Fred Fried Archive, B Williams Collection

Indian Lake, “Paul”, July 1948

Pennsylvania

Bellview, West View Park, Dentzel, no date


Bellview, West View Park, Dentzel, no date	Bellview, West View Park, Dentzel, no date

Dover, Lakeside Park, Dentzel/Muller, no date

McKeesport, Rainbow Gardens, Herschell, no date

Phoenixville, Bonnie Brae Park, Dentzel, no date

Somewhere in PA, E. Joy Morris, no date

Rhode Island

Portsmouth, Island Park, Looff, 1913

South Dakota

Sioux Falls, (Developed), Parker, June 17, 1950

Washington

Puyallup, Western Washington State Fair, 1950, Philadelphia Toboggan Company #43

Press Photo – “GROOMING JOB – Merry-go-round horses require almost as much attention as real-life animals that the Western Washington Fair at Puyallup, where children and adults alike find delight on the wooden mounts. E. O. Douglas of Greater Shows, Redondo, polished the white “king” horse of the 37-year-old carousels he bought 20 years ago, in 1913, another buyer paid $22,000 for it.”

Wisconsin

Kenosha (Postmark), July 28, 1909, Parker, probably a traveling carousel

Unkown Location

Girls in summer dresses pose with an Armitage-Herschell, no date

Large-headed early Carmel horse, no date

A fashionable woman poses with a traveling Herschell,

no date

Waiting to ride the Herschell carousel, no date

An unknown Herschell carousel in an unknown location with no date.

Here is the carousel on the left in operation.

Herschell-Spillman 20th Century Model with the attached canopy, no date

Parker with very nice details, no date

A unusual set-up with two rows of Baby Parkers, no date

Traveling Parker with flaps to keep off freeloaders, no date

Parker with flaps still in use, no date

Parker, “At the Municipal Pier, June 24, 1924 – Frederick on the bucking broncho”

Magnificent Stein & Goldstein with young, outfitted cowboy rider, no date

Dentzel prancer and goat on a modified carousel at a barren location, no date

A 2 row stationary carousel with a PTC 11-like horse, no date

Seaside scene, sunbathers, Bill and Marie, and a Herschell-Spillman menagerie carousel, 1918

Primitives and Early Carousels

Probably man-powered at Nahant, MA, no date

Possibly the same primitive seen at Nahant, here at Salisbury Beach, MA, no date

“A flying Dutchman” in a County Fair

These are like the Watch Hill, Rhode Island Dare horses, a man-powered carousel, no date.

Culver Pictures, “The Merry Go Round”

US Merry Go Round Company carousel. The chicken wire in the foreground obviously did not keep everyone out.

A Different Perspective

A pretty lady rides a pretty Carmel

Dad and son whiz by on a fancy, armored Stein & Goldstein

“Dodo and me”, early 19th century fashion and a bucking Spillman

Jacksonville, Florida, August 1944”, nice rim, outside row stander, inner row jumper

Headless Morris horse and headless woman, Photography 101 failure

Grandpa and grandkids, cokes, snacks and a little Parker carousel – what more could you ask for?

Mom, don’t step backwards!

Patiently (or impatiently) waiting in line to ride the carousel

Owner poses with his Herchell carousel?

It’s a Parker!

A Parker rabbit?

The carousel in the eyes of a child, Dorney Park, June 1972

A little daredevil – look closely! (Illions carousel)

A captive audience

Dare and Illions, I wonder where?

Future Prom Queen, Herschell carousel

Down below, a mirrored rim, perhaps the next ride.

Carousel operators, possibly in Ohio, Dentzel carousel

Say Cheese! Valencia, Magic Mountain, Philadelphia Toboggan Company #21, no date

Memories in the making! (kiddie Herschell)

Disneyland - How not to photograph a carousel!

Disney World - A surreal image of the carousel and Sleeping Beauty’s Castle