..Merle Evans..RBBB Band Director..

..Merle Evans, band director on the Liberty Wagon..Sept. 6,1943..

..Bobby Schwartz and Merle Evans, circus band leader and the director of RBBB band since the two shows merged in the spring of 1919..Aug. 13, 1952..

..July 26, 1948..



..State Fair Park..Aug. 13, 1946..




..Merle Evans and his Circus Band..Sept. 6, 1954..




..The  band sitting in front of the band tent during the quiet hour between shows..Merle Evans, Lou Bader of Springfield Ohio who was with RBBB for over 30 years..

..Digital reproductions of original 35mm color slides from the Circus and Allied Arts Collection held in Special Collections at Milner Library, Illinois State University..Photographer: Sverre O. Braathen (1895-1974)..