Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Hall's Farm #1


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Located in Northern Missouri, served as an exotic animal compound and circus brokerage for many years.
My dad wrote on the back "Art Eldridge?"

Posted by Buckles at 12/04/2007 06:56:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buckles'
Do you know about what time period the Halls farm was in operation and if there is anything left of the area these days?.
J C Hall

05 December, 2007 18:50
Buckles said...

Not sure when he started dealing in circus equipment but his first elephants came in 1905.
The Hall family cleared out the last of the elephants in 1935, most of them going to the newly framed Cole Bros. Circus in Rochester, Indiana.

06 December, 2007 06:53
Bob Cline said...

Mr. Hall,
I remember reading somewhere that it is all gone except the homestead.
Many of the Blog readership may not know that much of Wm.P. Hall's correspondance with his dealings was saved over the years. The heirs to the family asked the Circus World Museum to come and get it if they wanted it.
As a result, many of the letters from shows during the 1905 to 1935 era are now preserved for viewing in the CWM Collection. I spent a week going through them. You just can't imagine how big some of these orders for animals and equipment were.
Most of the elephants were leased for a period of time. There were elephants sold as well. There are some contracts in these files. Also included is all the show records of Mr. Hall's one shot as a Circus owner.
A big surprise to me was the collection of photos from the Hall estate that are mostly about his mining operations of which I never knew about.
One big absence in the records is the repossession of shows and animals when buyers defaulted. I only found one sale of Fred Buchanan's elephants back to Wm. P. Hall and that wasn't a repossession of stock.
Truly Incredible history.
Bob

06 December, 2007 09:05
Anonymous said...

For a horse trader I think he did very well over the years.

06 December, 2007 19:40

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