Sunday, December 20, 2009

To Melanie Carty #2


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3 comments:

Buckles said...

When "Jenny" went to Mills Bros. Circus in 1950 her name was changed to "Dixie" since they already had an elephant with that name.

Anonymous said...

I cannot thank you enough for this information! After two weeks of searching the internet and online historical sources like GoogleArchive and Newspaperarchive.com, I learned a lot, but here you have it all in your file cabinet on four sheets of paper!

If you have anything on Ada and Lou, they were two of the first four Power's Elephants, but they died of pneumonia and were replaced by Roxie and Julia. So in total there were six Power's Elephants.

Thank you again for being such a great resource on elephants.

Melani Carty

Anonymous said...

Can you tell me who compiled all this information about Power's Elephants? Also, if you hold the paper up to the light, can you read what was scratched out at the top of Jenny's resume? Many thanks again for this priceless information.

Melani Carty