Friday, February 15, 2008

Sparks Elephant Acts #1


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Here we see Cheerful Gardner with three young elephants "Myrtle", "Bonnie" and "Babe" that he had just trained for J. Augustus Jones in 1915 for the Jones Bros. World Toured Shows.
When the show failed in 1917 they were sold at auction to Charlie Sparks.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buckles, this series is just wonderful circus history in a nut shell. Just greaT, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. SINCERELY, Johnny.