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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramArticle by professional photographer Joseph J. Steinmetz discussing his favorite color photo.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2011- 7, Photographic collection, 1930s-1970s; Box 11
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Community culture--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota
Entertainment
Photography of clowns
Photographs
Circus--Photographs
Entertainers--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Photographs
Circus workers--Photographs
Circus performers--Photographs
Clowns--Photographs
Men--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Portraits
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc)
Photographers--Florida--Sarasota County--Sarasota--Portraits
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
The clown is Lou Jacobs.
Biographical Note
Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.
Lou Jacobs (born Johann Ludwig Jacob in 1903 in Bremerhaven, Germany), was an Auguste Master Clown who performed for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for about 60 years from 1925 to 1985. In 1966, Jacobs' now-famous clown face was put on a newly issued United States postage stamp. He was later inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1989. Jacobs died on Sunday, September 13, 1992 in Sarasota, Florida.
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