One of the most elaborate of approximately 150 (out of originally 2,500 or so) carved wooden carousels in America, the Kit Carson County Carousel in the eastern Colorado town of Burlington, on the Kansas border

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The sixth of 74 carousels manufactured by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company between 1904 and 1933, this is a three-row, stationary (the animals do not move up and down) "merry-go-round" housed in a 12-sided frame building. It is the only antique carousel in America still having original paint on both the scenery panels and on the menagerie,not just horses but all sorts of animals.
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.