Flying Horse
by Jenny Revitz Soper
Title
Flying Horse
Artist
Jenny Revitz Soper
Medium
Photograph - Photograph - Selective Color
Description
Ottoway Amusement Company's merry-go-round photographed at the Neewollah Festival, Independence Kansas, USA 2016.
The carousel horse's side facing outward was more heavily carved than the side facing inward. With that, it is possible to tell its origin because British carousels spin clockwise while others spin counterclockwise. The carousel's "golden age" (early 1880s to early 1930s) produced between 2,000 and 3,000 wooden carousels in the U.S.; about 170 are still operating.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of D-Day in World War II and later U.S. President, as a young lad was said to have sanded carousel horses at the C.W. Parker Company's factory located near his home in Abilene, Kansas.
"Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together."
~Walt Disney
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December 30th, 2016
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Comments (27)
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Congratulations. Your wonderful image is now featured on our AllStars home page. Feel free to post this in the featured archive in the group discussion.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations on your artwork being featured in one of FAA's Newer Groups - Camera Art! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive thread! group or any other thread that it would fit in! LF
Anne Gifford
Your merry go round horse series is fabulous! I enjoyed reading the description, too....I learned something new! like/f
Jenny Revitz Soper
Thank you David T Wilkerson for the feature in the Artist Group, Midwest America Photography!
Jenny Revitz Soper
Thanks to John M. Bailey for featuring my photograph on the homepage of the FAA Artist group, Images That Excite You!
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