Clarence A.Webster a.k.a. "Conflagration Jones"
I am writing the first book from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons.Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas.Clarence A.Webster's obit appears in the SAN FRANCISCO CALL Friday,March 16,1900,age 41. He was a writer/artist for the CHICAGO INTER OCEAN and accompanied panorama artist Walter Burridge to Kilauea Volcano.A newspaper serial and printed booklet with many illustrations commemorates this journey. I have much to share.