Saturday, November 18, 2006

Ringling-Barnum Circus 1949 #5 & #6

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Posted by Buckles at 11/18/2006 06:06:00 AM

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Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - - -

This hartebeest was only with the Ringling show in 1944, ’45, and ’46. So the photo has to be from one of those years. I believe it joined the show after it was on the road. [This is the only photo of the animal I have ever seen.]

Not much of the cage wagon can be seen but it looks like it is red in color and one of the larger ones carried in those years. In 1949 the show had switched to those short ex-W.W.II ordnance wagons that were converted to cage wagons. They were not painted red.

When I saw the hartebeest in 1945 it was in the front end compartment and a white bearded gnu was in the other. The hartebeest died in 1948, presumably in Sarasota winter quarters. It was not carried in the menageries of 1947 and 1948.

19 November, 2006 19:22

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