Getting That Poster Up On The Wall - Not the best job in the world!

It had been a long day, and the guys were tired. The photographer, Mr. Quick, wanted to record the moment and asked the guys to line up in front of their work. Unfortunately, their work wasn’t very good.The guys had been pasting a twelve or sixteen sheet theatrical poster to side of a wall. The parts of the image had to be matched up right, which it appears they did, but as far as skillful pasting goes, these guys were the pits. The poster has wrinkles, bumps and unpleasant sections all over it, thanks to the sloppy work these bumblers did. In fact, looking carefully at the extremely busy image, it is clear that these guys had almost no idea how to mount a poster. I’m not sure they look sheepish, but that certainly is not a look of pride on their faces.The photographer Mr. Quick was Floyd Edgar Quick, born in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1877. In the year 1909 Quick embarked on a photographic career, working for traveling carnivals and small circuses. He photographed both the performers and the patrons as he moved about with the companies. He eventually settled into a photography shop in Detroit, Michigan, under the name “F.E. Quick.” It’s hard to know where his work has migrated to through the years, because this image turned up in central Texas.