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Surprising to see just how little the State Fairs have changed over the years .... save for the enormous rides!

An interesting note on the cavas banners in those days.A very few survive from the 30's thru the end of the 40's.All were hand painted in those days and some have sold in fair condition for 6000.00$.Some painted by very well known artists of the era.Some are absolutely truly a master work.An old one in good condition from a major circus or well known Carni could fetch 10K.....................so if you are lucky enough to have one don't leave it in the barn.

Hal Chase seems to be the only person involved in baseball in the early part of the 20th Century who wasn't butt ugly.

I believe that this is Hal Chase when he was with the New York Highlanders who later became known as the Yankees. Chase later played for the NY Giants, which could lead to confusion. As for Wallace, he is representing the team known as the St. Louis Browns who later moved to Baltimore to become the Orioles.

According to Jimmy Austin in The Glory of Their Times, Chase was a real jerk, and was made manager this year after he complained to the owners and ran off the previous one. (That might explain the friendly look on Wallace's face.) Said Austin: "Well, you know how good a manager Hal Chase was: so good that he took over a club that finished second in 1910 and took them straight to sixth place in 1911. And the year after that they wound up last."

@Mark in Nova Beg to differ. This fellow looks like a movie star. www.photistoric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/13527u_Pho...

The Browns played in St. Louis through the 1953 season, moving to Baltimore in 1954. . .The Browns won their only AL pennant in 1944 when they played in the last World Series in which ALL of the games were played in the same ballpark. The Cardinals and Browns shared Sportsmans Park in St. Louis. The Cardinals won the NL pennant in 1944 and beat the Browns in 6 games in the '44 World Series.

Just wanted to point out that the caption on the negative reads "Clark, St. Louis." If the Pictorial History Committee determined that the original caption was erroneous, perhaps that fact ought to be included in the notes.

You drew the right conclusion. We determined that the player was indeed Krichell, not Clark.

Matt Stevens: Thanks for your suggestion. We'll think about how to make these kinds of corrections more clear.

You're welcome. Not only will that avert confusion among researchers, but it will preserve the Committee's hard work in a way that's guaranteed to remain associated with the image. I'd suggest using the "Notes" field to briefly recapitulate the Committee's reasoning, with citations of documents used to support it. That material can be inserted after the sentence beginning "Title and date...." For example: "Four other photos of this individual in the Bain Collection are captioned 'Krichell, St. Louis.' [citations] By preponderance of the evidence, the Committee therefore has concluded that this photo's caption is erroneous."