Oh You Salome

Title: Oh You Salome
Circus Name: The Union Circus
Date: May 8th, 1909
Location of Event: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Creator: Frank Albert Kapp, collector
Subject: Two children and two men, one of whom wears a woman's dress, rest near a wagon displaying a "Oh You Salome" sign
Description: Found within the Frank Kapp scrapbook, this image displays two children and two men, one wearing a woman's dress, resting on a Union Circus wagon. A sign reading "Oh You Salome" sits in the center of the group, identifying the men as part of the titular side show performance. Beneath the image is the inscription "Oh you kid!!!". The performance may be anti-Semitic in nature. The Biblical Salome was a Jewish princess often blamed for the murder of John the Baptist. Several plays and operatic productions about Salome were popular prior to 1909.
Rights Holder: Bentley Historical Library
References: Photograph, 1907-1911, Frank Albert Kapp photograph series, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Item sets: Historic Circuses in Ann Arbor; Historic Circuses in Ann Arbor (Local)