Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson Circus/ "Jumbo"

I was looking thru a folder of menagerie animals and came across this, I had forgotten how sensational "Jumbo" must have been. This is a picture everyone has seen but I wonder how many realize that it was a photo-op taken at Regents Park Zoological Gardens in London shortly after his purchase by Barnum. In the foreground is his keeper Matthew Scott and behind him holding the basket is the Barnum elephant man William "Elephant Bill" Newman wondering "What in the Hell have I gotten myself into?" "Jumbo" arrived in New York City April 9, 1882 and was killed by a locomotive at St. Thomas, Ontario Sept. 15, 1885.